Liberty Mutual gets option to deploy $750m with Orion Infrastructure Capital
The pair have jointly committed $240m so far to the Credit Income Strategy, which will sit inside Orion's existing infrastructure credit business.
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Insurance regulators answer Warren as private credit's anchor pool grows
State regulators' defense of their own oversight doubles as the capital terms on which insurer money will keep reaching direct lenders.
Private credit's 1.7% quarter was carried by its riskiest sleeve
The composite improved because opportunistic lending carried it while direct lending and real estate debt each printed 1.0 per cent, and the flow underneath argues allocators already treat steadiness as the product rather than the return.
Fund managers want more private credit and more hedges
A Clearwater survey of 250 senior executives finds near-unanimous intent among fund managers to add alternatives, alongside a hedging figure that prices the illiquidity they are buying.
The sovereign mandate now sells as a bundle, private debt included
Private credit is arriving inside multi-asset sovereign mandates, and the managers who sell credit alone cannot bid for the whole ticket.
US public pensions buy European credit as the supply wave reprices it
Four state systems moved into European direct lending in a single quarter, buying a spread that a EUR60 billion, M&A-heavy pipeline is already narrowing.
Insurers plan to buy more private credit; the headroom is European
A Moody's survey puts 42% of US and 36% of UK and European insurers on the buy side, but US life books already hold 35% in private credit and European books just 11%.
UK default funds will become private credit's next allocator class
Standard Life projects private markets at 15 to 30 per cent of UK DC default funds by 2035, with credit taking a 20 to 40 per cent slice of the private sleeve.
Private credit's biggest allocators are insurance balance sheets
Allianz's $146.3 billion tops the GI 75, and the asset menus below it show managers which buyer now sets the terms.
New Mexico's $800m re-up is the only disclosed cheque, and it went to an existing relationship
Two New York plans added managers without disclosed sizes; the filings leave open whether those are starter positions or follow-ons.
Nest builds private credit in nine-figure tickets, weighted to infrastructure
The UK's largest workplace pension scheme has put £650m to work across private credit in five months while keeping the asset class under four per cent of NAV. The DC push arrives as a handful of large mandates, not a broad reallocation.
LACERA puts Cheyne in charge of $750m credit mandate
The $93.9bn pension is folding hedge-fund and illiquid credit into one managed account rather than a series of separate commitments.
Crescent pitches CLO equity to insurers as a distribution play
The $232m fund's cash-on-cash yield is the hook as private equity's distribution drought pushes allocators to income-paying structured products.
Four Australian institutions put A$705m into Arcmont’s European direct lending
A bespoke mandate for four Australian investors points private credit toward dedicated portfolios, with Europe the main beneficiary of US headwinds.
Muted exits turn LPs toward emerging private credit managers
Private Debt Investor's LP Perspectives Study 2026 finds allocators weighing new-fund backing as the exit environment stalls.
KCPSRS sets private debt policy, reviews managers
A public pension plan moves on private credit, with the size of the allocation and the manager list still undisclosed.
Private credit wins shelf on Principal's 401(k) platform
The retirement provider's collective investment trust program puts Apollo, Ares, KKR and eleven other managers inside the defined-contribution channel, where sticky default-fund assets could become a new source of long-duration capital.
Colorado pension commits $20m to Aldine private capital fund
The oversubscribed SBIC close and the small pension check show where private credit formation still clears.
Alternative Credit Investor launches members-only club for private credit allocators
The Allocators Club gives limited partners a private place to compare notes as allocators push into newer corners of private credit.
Allocators push private-debt dollars toward Asia-Pacific
Spread premiums and diversification are pulling North American and Western European allocators into Asia-Pacific private debt, according to Private Debt Investor.
CLO collateral quality improving, three investors tell Creditflux
Anonymous investor views in an August 14 Creditflux report point to better CLO collateral metrics; the underlying data stays behind the paywall.
Wider manager return gaps make some LPs wary of sponsored lending
Private debt allocators weigh manager dispersion and disputed market data as some grow cautious on sponsor-backed direct lending, according to Private Debt Investor.
CPP Investments posts strongest quarter in more than a decade
The pension fund also committed US$1bn to Blackstone Private Credit Fund while selling legacy European non-performing loans.
Currency erases CPP credit gains, net return falls to 3.7%
A 10.7-point swing in a major institutional credit book shows allocators where the real risk lives.
Mercer ranks private credit ahead of public fixed income for insurers
Insurer priorities now point to private credit; managers must turn the ranking into committed capital.