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- Private Equity
Goldman and Evercore pitch evergreen funds to buyout firms
Bankers at five firms are pitching buyout shops on vehicles with 10- to 15-year lives, but exit mechanics remain open.
- Private Equity
CGF2026's CR l Nucleus Ventures Sep 20 series sells $182,000
An Oct. 19 Form D lists an Oct. 16 first sale and names LLC The Flax Group as a related person.
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- Infrastructure
Microsoft engineer says power and cooling now bind AI data centers
Idle accelerators become stranded capital unless memory, networking, power and cooling are co-designed, the essay says.
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- Digital Assets
Citrini publishes 79-page case for tokenized assets
CoinDesk's Oct. 17 column says assets can move between apps and serve as collateral; its summary names no custodian or terms.
- Private Credit & BDCs
Moelis-linked Steele Creek BDC to liquidate after 66.5% vote
Directors chose a wind-down over an interval fund conversion, citing sub-scale size and BDC reporting costs.
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- Private Credit & BDCs
Fitch finds 2.7% non-accruals in eight-BDC review, flags 2027 pressure
Fitch also said high redemptions and slower fundraising at non-traded BDCs could curb lending and ease competition.
- Private Credit & BDCs
True launches private credit hiring practice led by Rick Bank
The recruitment firm will place CEOs, CFOs, COOs and board members at credit managers, with TrueBridge supplying interim leaders.
- Private Credit & BDCs
EQT fee-generating AUM reaches €195bn as Coller adds €34bn
The Coller purchase closed Aug. 31 and the secondaries business now trades as Coller EQT.
- Infrastructure
MHI and Ingeteam sign non-binding MoU on US data center power
The partners would pair Ingeteam's power conversion and storage gear with MHI's cooling and energy management; no capital commitment or order volume.
- Private Credit & BDCs
Man Group private credit AUM flat at $14.1bn in third quarter
Alternative funds drew $1.9bn of net inflows and total assets reached $270.9bn, with growth concentrated in liquid strategies.
- Digital Assets
XRP ETFs draw $1.80 billion in first year of trading
Circulating supply rose 63% since 2017, Nansen's Nicolai Sondergaard told CoinDesk, leaving each token a smaller share of total value.
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- Private Credit & BDCs
Bluerock High Income credit fund declares 17th payout at 8.1%
Seventeenth straight distribution pays about $0.45 per share; pre-waiver expense ratio reaches 4.61% on Class C.
- Hedge Funds & Liquid Alts
CAIA essay: liquid alternatives are easier to justify than hold
John W. Moore of Stratview Wealth Management names the "Perspective Premium" and says it is not a return forecast.
- Insurance-Linked & Specialty
Marsh reinsurance revenue falls 6% to $374 million
Group revenue rose 8% to $6.9 billion and consulting grew 9%; the release did not explain the reinsurance decline.
- Evergreen & Interval Funds
Vistra adds three Yardi modules for real estate debt funds
The modules combine loan administration, covenant tracking and property data in one environment for real estate credit and levered equity funds.
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- Private Credit & BDCs
US investment grade private corporate credit sets $211.1B record
Issuance rose 33% in 2025; volume through June 2026 ran 69% ahead of the same period a year earlier, the Journal reports.
- Real Estate
Cross Street, ZSD top out 149-unit Chicago apartments
The project includes 11 two-story duplexes with private patios and about 3,800 square feet of first-floor retail, Connect CRE reported.
- Digital Assets
France proposes 31.4% tax on swaps into MiCA stablecoins
A finance committee amendment would make swaps into EU-regulated e-money tokens taxable from Jan. 1, 2027, if the budget passes by Dec. 10.
- Private Credit & BDCs
Arrow Global MD says insurance underwriting is its own strategy
Dan Adams, who runs the insurance arm, says the €20bn European MGA pool is underwriting risk, not just capital to manage.
- Insurance-Linked & Specialty
AM Best to host Oct. 28 ILS briefing
Quentin Perrot of GC Securities, Michael Stahel of LGT ILS Partners and Lorenzo Volpi of Leadenhall join the panel.
- Secondaries
Ares files Form D for secondaries vehicle, offering size undisclosed
The Oct. 14 filing records $0 sold and no fee, minimum, gate or liquidity terms.
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- Private Credit & BDCs
Crescent Private Credit Income CFO resigns; second exit since August
Gerhard Lombard, also CFO of the parent and of Crescent Capital BDC, was named interim; a separate filing adds Remora Capital.
- Private Credit & BDCs
Castlelake promotes Jackson and Sylvester to partner
Jackson runs residential mortgage finance; Sylvester leads client coverage at the $40 billion asset-based private credit firm.
- Infrastructure
CIP takes 25% of up to 1,080 MW UK wind farm
The stake was previously held by a Macquarie-led consortium, and the investment went in through CIP's fifth flagship fund, IREI reported.
- Evergreen & Interval Funds
Aero Capital Solutions Feeder Fund V files Form D with $0 sold
The Oct. 13 filing names a GP entity, a management company and a corporate parent among its related persons.
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- Private Credit & BDCs
John Hancock Comvest BDC assumes $250M JPMorgan facility
The merged nontraded fund assumes term SOFR plus 2% debt maturing November 2029.
- Digital Assets
Strategy buys $21 million of bitcoin, its fifth purchase since August
The company funded the purchase by selling common stock and spent about $192 million retiring nearly 2 million STRC preferred shares.
- Digital Assets
Bitmine buys 12,532 ether, reaching 4.9% of supply
The ether treasury firm plans to stop buying once it reaches 5% of supply, CoinDesk reported.