Isaac Taylor
Platform Editor, WSJ Pro at The Wall Street Journal
Award-Winning Platform Editor at The Wall Street Journal. Pulitzer finalist. @WSJ
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Isaac Taylor
Asset manager Castlelake has agreed to invest up to $2 billion in residential mortgages through Invictus Capital Partners, a firm that specializes in residential credit. The arrangement will let Minneapolis-based Castlelake invest in high-quality mortgage loans acquired by Invictus, providing Castlelake fund investors with a chance to gain from “attractive pricing” of assets in the growing residential loan market.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Isaac Taylor
The firm expects to capitalize on ripe opportunities as liquidity needs rise, especially after recent market volatility April 8, 2025 7:00 am ET|WSJ ProPantheon Ventures has raised $5.2 billion in committed capital for secondary investments of private credit assets, one of the largest fundraising hauls for the strategy to date.
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4 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Isaac Taylor
European credit specialist AlbaCore Capital Group has secured an initial $1.8 billion, including anchor investments and leverage, for its new senior direct lending strategy in a market that has seen overall demand for private-credit funds soften. The fund’s backers include a subsidiary of Mideast sovereign-wealth investor Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, or ADIA, and Japanese financial services firm Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Isaac Taylor
Asset-based investment specialist Castlelake wrapped up its fifth aviation-focused credit fund with more than $2 billion in committed capital across the fund and related vehicles. The Minneapolis firm began seeking commitments to the fund in 2023. The total raised is roughly 25% more than Castlelake collected for a predecessor fund, which closed on $1.6 billion in 2022. The firm has been investing out of that fund since 2019 and it is nearing the end of the vehicle’s investment period.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Isaac Taylor
Private-credit firms are increasingly hiring loan restructuring and workout professionals as corporate bankruptcies and distressed exchanges have spiked. U.S. corporate bankruptcy filings reached a 14-year high in 2024, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The 694 filings in 2024 marked the highest number of such filings since 2010, the data show.
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MY NEWEST EXCLUSIVE: Asset-based investment specialist Castlelake wrapped up its fifth aviation-focused credit fund with more than $2 billion in committed capital across the fund and related vehicles https://t.co/mzWPatAoi5
MY LATEST: Private-credit firms are willing to pay anywhere from $500,000 to $1.5 million for restructuring professionals amid a spike in out-of-court restructurings https://t.co/NsfIhCHmOn
EXCLUSIVE: Neuberger Berman closed its third specialty-finance fund and related vehicles with more than $1.6 billion to invest in asset-based financings https://t.co/kZgkVH2Z2s