News & Analysis

Loan Note: Lincoln index shows strong private company earnings growth; Moody’s warns on concentration risk

Software-as-a-service under scrutiny but Europe’s private companies showing good earnings growth. Also, Moody’s identifies concentration risk, and Golub brings BSL CLO business to Europe. Here’s today’s brief for our valued subscribers only.

How to unlock Asia-Pacific’s private credit potential

The banks have long had a stranglehold on the credit markets, but the role of private funds is becoming more influential, maintains Julien Thinat, head of distribution and credit solutions APAC, Societe Generale.

Ares supports Vantage Data Centers via a $2.4bn debt facility

The manager commits two-thirds, or $1.6bn, of the total, with $330m of it at closing.

Patria prepares next vintage of Latin American credit strategy

Patria’s first Latin American vintage raised $314m, which the company says delivered a nearly 16% IRR.

Nuveen’s takeover of Schroders to create $2.5trn asset manager

Schroders Capital, the private capital arm of Schroders, manages more than $25bn in private equity assets.

Performance data provides clues to LP sentiment

Investors are not without concerns but are happy to keep increasing their private debt allocations.

Exclusive: Brigade closes first dedicated private credit fund with $1bn to invest

The manager will use the fund to target first-lien loans to lower mid-market sponsor- and non-sponsor owned borrowers.

Loan Note: Key performance data for private markets; Asia’s Keppel bolsters latest fund

Find out how private debt (and other alternative asset classes) have performed. Also, Singapore’s Keppel secures major commitment, and Moody’s finds defaults declining but stress continuing. Here’s today’s brief for our valued subscribers only.

Janus Henderson-backed units launch first asset-backed private credit interval fund

Privacore VPC Asset-Backed Credit Fund will be seeded with $250m in capital from CNO Financial and Corbin Capital.

LPs seek diversification in alternative credit – report

Investors are looking to access new geographies, fund structures and sectors through their private credit allocation in the second half of the decade.