fundraising

The two public retirement plans are set to decrease their commitments to the asset class as part of the impending implementation of a new asset allocation.

The investment banks – one still arguably the pinnacle of Wall Street and the other a casualty of, among other factors, run-ins with federal regulators – produced some of the biggest names in alternative lending.

The investor in boutique fund managers is looking to focus on private markets specialists, including debt managers.

The listed vehicle will look to invest in ships and shipping companies with predictable cashflows and low correlation to other markets.

Life would never be the same, and lenders were among those trying to make sense of it all. Andrew Hedlund reflects on several key ways in which the private debt asset class was moulded by a crisis.

The fund will make co-investments on an equal footing with a UK regulated bank.

The firm gained North American exposure with the acquisition of Northport Capital.

With new PPP-type infrastructure projects having become ‘scarce’, John Mayhew, head of infrastructure debt at M&G Investments, is originating deals in the secondary market.

Special situations strategies have garnered over $7bn since 2013, EMPEA reveals.

The Madrid-headquartered asset-based lender has closed its third fund in around six months and in the absence of a conventional fundraising process.