Fund Management

Pollen Street increases AUM 29% on back of strong fundraising

The firm said its is on track to hold a final close of its credit fund this year at its £1bn target.

Amid a storm of uncertainty, thinking on sustainability is getting sharper

Sustainability-related initiatives are clearly focused on material, impactful, financial objectives, if comments at NEXUS 2025 were anything to go by.

The large capital pools shaping the present and future

The emerging private markets landscape sees the largest managers fighting for wealth capital, further enforcing their dominance over capital raising.

Blue Owl files for first private credit interval fund

Blue Owl’s filing follows several other high-profile multi-asset credit interval fund filings.

CalPERS seeks advice from Oaktree Capital Management’s Howard Marks

Marks spoke to the board in January, following the firm’s decision in March 2024 to increase its private credit allocation from 5% to 8%.

ESG heads are value creators, and their firms know it

Data on the compensation received by heads of ESG shows how the role they occupy has developed.

Can global GPs successfully diversify into ABL strategies?

Asset-based lending is a growing area of the private debt universe but it’s also complex. Prime Lead Partners’ Viral Patel examines whether the strategy can be easily assimilated by fund managers.

Even at the top, fundraising is not easy

With scale becoming an ever more important feature of the private debt market, placement agents are faced with a challenging set of circumstances.