Robin Blumenthal

The Opportunities Fund will have more than $3bn to invest, including leverage, and it has already deployed half of its capital.

Manager teams up with Marathon Asset Management to offer what it believes is the first retail asset-based loan fund.

Has distressed become a dirty word in the industry?

The manager’s second fund targeting the strategy has exceeded its target.

The manager’s largest credit vehicle focuses on 'underserved' non-sponsored companies.

Even in the face of substantial macroeconomic challenges, managers are finding a variety of alternative ways to describe the strategy.

The fund that pursues asset-backed opportunistic strategy was oversubscribed.

The vehicle raised about half of its $250m target for affordable housing.

Carlyle’s global credit platform is on a roll. Under Mark Jenkins, the firm’s head of global credit, the platform’s assets under management recently nearly doubled to more than $141 billion on a pro forma basis – and all in the space of a few months, writes Robin Blumenthal.

The acquisition, valued at $700m, will double the US manager’s private credit assets under management.