The partnership is the first commitment by a European bank to lend via a marketplace lending platform.
2 min read · 27 January 2015
The Connecticut retirement scheme has hired three firms since it began allocating to private debt and expects to make two to three more fund additions this year.
2 min read · 27 January 2015
Managers of credit strategies will have to add value and make savvy investments as market liquidity, in part driven by their own fundraising success, threatens to compress the illiquidity premium in 2015.
2 min read · 26 January 2015
The chairman and chief executive of Fifth Street Asset Management plans to focus on institutional growth and strategy expansion, while handing over the reins of the BDCs to other executives.
3 min read · 26 January 2015
US public pension are committing to distressed funds now, before the next downturn. That might be smart.
2 min read · 23 January 2015
Business lending platforms Assetz Capital and Funding Circle say the partnership will raise awareness of alternative lending options among small businesses.
2 min read · 22 January 2015
The partnership will allow UK-based secured business lender, Assetz to charge its growth.
2 min read · 21 January 2015
The former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee said certain safeguards have been diminished since he left his post and expressed doubts that asset managers will be labelled ‘systematically important’.
2 min read · 21 January 2015
Scotland's Highland Council Pension Fund is seeking a whole loan strategy with preference given to UK-focused managers.
1 min read · 21 January 2015
Non-bank lender activity in the PE-backed financing space increased in 2014, research by Altium shows.
2 min read · 20 January 2015
