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Ares Raises $1.7 Billion for Australia Private Credit Fund

Private Equity Insights

billion) for a credit fund for Australia and New Zealand, as it seeks to capitalize on opportunities created by banks retreating from leveraged lending. The Ares Asia Direct Lending fund, the company’s first leveraged buyout vehicle for the region, has deployed over A$1.04 Ares Management Corp. has raised A$2.6

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Clearlake and Insight close to $2bn private credit deal for Alteryx LBO

Private Equity Insights

percentage points above the Secured Overnight Financing Rate and at a discounted price of 98 cents on the dollar. percentage points above the Secured Overnight Financing Rate and at a discounted price of 98 cents on the dollar. Billion for Australia Private Credit Fund Ares Management Corp. Read more Ares Raises $1.7

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Private Equity's Creative Wizardry Posing Systemic Risk?

Pension Pulse

One senior pension fund executive says they try to avoid managers who use NAV as they view it as firms being lazy about exits, adding that they’d prefer to crystallize losses than get distributions this way. Some investors don’t want firms using such tools to flatter returns.

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CPP Investments Aims to Double Credit Holdings Over Next Five Years

Pension Pulse

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveraged buyout boom: Canada’s largest pension fund plans to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth.

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Ares Faces Its Biggest Decision Yet: Stick With Private Credit or Become an Alts Supermarket

Private Equity Insights

Question is: Can it become a one-stop shop for pension funds, endowments, insurers, and sovereign wealth funds eager for exposure to every major alternative-asset class — without diminishing its private credit franchise? In 2022, Ares’ direct lending tied to such buyouts totaled $26.4

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout.

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Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio?

Fortune Financial

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential. between 2015 and the end of 2021.