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Brookfield to acquire majority stake in credit manager Castlelake

The FT this morning reported that Brookfield Asset Management is in advanced talks to buy a majority stake in Castlelake with an investment of over $1.5 billion, including a large investment in Castlelake‘s private credit funds. Castlelake manages $22 billion … Continue reading

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Blue Owl expands into Real Estate Finance with Prima Capital Acquisition

Blue Owl is continuing its buying spree, this time for Real Estate Finance. The $165 billion multi-strategy alt manager (Credit, GP Strategic Capital, Real Estate), announced the acquisition of Prima Capital Advisors for the aggregate consideration of $170 million. Prima … Continue reading

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Blue Torch Capital Closes $2.3B Credit Opps Fund

Blue Torch, a NY based private credit manager surpassed the $2B fundraising target with the closing of Blue Torch Credit Opportunities Fund III, raising $2.3 billion. Similar to the other vintages, the fund will focus on bespoke credit solutions for … Continue reading

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Private real estate lender Kiavi launches construction product via tech and data platform

Kiavi is one of the largest US private lenders to residential real estate investors, with close to $19 billion in funded loans – with a focus on technology & data for economies of scale. Today they launched a new construction … Continue reading

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Goldman‘s 2023 Global Insurance Survey Highlights

GSAM interviewed 343 CIO/CFOs about their views on everything ranging from the economy, asset allocations, return expectations, portfolio construction and industry capitalization. Some highlights as they relate to asset management and private markets: – Globally, 51% of respondents expect to … Continue reading

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Ex-Citadel trio partners with CC&L to launch FortWood Capital

The former Citadel EM Credit PM team including Michael Mormile, Jonathan Hartofilis and Richard Li have teamed up with Canadian multi-boutique asset manager Connor, Clark & Lunn to create FortWood Capital as a new boutique. FortWood will offer absolute return … Continue reading

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AXA IM buys private equity firm W Capital Management to strengthen private markets

AXA IM this week announced the acquisition of W Capital Management, a US based private equity firm focusing on GP-led and direct secondary investments. It will sit within AXA IM Prime, the firm‘s fully integrated provider of investment solutions across … Continue reading

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GSAM‘s Petershill buys stake in private credit firm Kennedy Lewis

Every asset manager it seems wants to get a piece of private credit these days, either by acquisition, minority stake or team liftout. Petershill Partners, Goldman‘s private equity firm this week bought some 20% of Kennedy Lewis from Azimut (which … Continue reading

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300B RIA Creative Planning Acquires ML&R Wealth Management

Creative Planning with $300 billion in assets under management and advisors in all 50 states and 90 countries is a behemoth of the RIA world… and it keeps scooping up smaller players. On April 2, 2024 Creative Planning CEO Peter … Continue reading

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Calling $24 billion in net gains “subpar”… Warren Buffett’s secrets of communication

“A number of good things happened at Berkshire last year (including $24 billion in net gains), but let’s first get the bad news out of the way.” That’s how Buffett starts his 2012 annual letter to shareholders. His top three … Continue reading

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