Private Credit

Sweden’s Top Pension Gatekeeper Wants to Keep Private Credit Out

Private Markets Sweden’s Top Pension Gatekeeper Wants to Keep Private Credit Out The top official deciding how Swedes invest much of their pension savings said he’s against offering them access to private markets funds. “I don’t see that — that’s long into the future, if that’s possible at all,” Erik Fransson, who runs the Swedish Fund Selection Agency, said in an interview when asked if the country’s premium pension system could be opened to the asset class, which includes private credit.

Another redemption wave is spooking the $2 trillion private-credit market

Private-credit woes are back in focus after a pair of l funds limited redemptions in the second quarter

Private credit lenders say their big software bet faces an AI reckoning — but not a ‘SaaSpocalypse'

AI is forcing a reckoning for private credit's huge software bet, with prominent investors telling CNBC that the technology will forge winners and losers, rather than wipe it out in the so-called "SaaSpocalypse." Private credit specialists at firms, including Ares and Man Group, told CNBC that AI would force lenders to distinguish between software companies that could adapt and those that would disruption. When concerns around the "SaaSpocalypse," or software apocalypse, emerged earlier this...

Blue Owl Tech Private Credit Fund Is Selling $300 Million Bonds

A private credit fund managed by Blue Owl Capital Inc. is looking to sell $300 million of investment-grade bonds, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Private Credit Industry In A Stress Test: Oaktree's Lee

Christina Lee, managing director and co-portfolio manager at Oaktree, joins Scarlet Fu and Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." Lee spoke after her appearance at the Bloomberg Credit Forum. Private credit managers are fending off rising portfolio stress and investor redemptions.

Ares CEO Arougheti on Private Credit, Sports Investing

Ares Management co-founder and CEO Michael Arougheti says the recent stress in the private credit market is tied to private equity. He speaks with Dani Burger at the Forbes Iconoclast Summit in New York.

Private credit firm Castlelake explores bid for easyJet

Castlelake, a private credit firm, is reportedly exploring a bid for easyJet, a UK-listed budget airline. This potential takeover would result in another UK-listed company being removed from the stock market. The move is seen as a significant development in the airline industry, with potential implications for the company's future operations and financial performance.

BOE's Bailey on AI Risks, Private Credit and Crypto

Private Credit Faces ‘Pipeline of Defaults,’ Holly Kim Says

Castlelake: the private credit lender taking a run at easyJet

The $37bn investment manager is little known in the UK, but that could change if it bids on the British budget carrier