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Ares Strategic Income Fund launches with $1.5bn

Ares Management Corporation, a global alternative investment manager, has launched the Ares Strategic Income Fund, a perpetual capital, continuously offered, non-traded business development company, with around $1.5 billion in initial investable capital.

JP Morgan GEP closes inaugural growth fund at over $1bn

JP Morgan Growth Equity Partners has held final close of its inaugural Growth Equity Fund, with over $1 billion in aggregate capital commitments raised from a broad set of institutions, family offices and individual investors across the Americas, Europe and Asia, as well as JP Morgan.

O2 Investment Partners closes oversubscribed Fund IV at $445m

O2 Investment Partners, a private equity firm investing in growth-oriented, privately-held businesses in the North American lower middle market, has held the final closing of O2 Investment Partners Fund IV (Fund IV) with $445 million in capital commitments. 

AlbaCore prices fifth CLO at €347.6m

European credit specialist AlbaCore Capital Group has priced AlbaCore Euro CLO V, its fifth Collateralised Loan Obligation (CLO) fund, at €347.6 million. AlbaCore Euro CLO V increases AlbaCore’s total value of CLO issuance to date from €1.9 billion to ~€2.3 billion.

Gilde Healthcare raises €600m for fund VI

Gilde Healthcare has raised €600 million in capital commitments for Gilde Healthcare Venture&Growth VI, a new investment fund which will focuse on fast growing companies developing solutions for better care at lower cost. 

Forbion raises €1.35bn across two funds

Forbion, a European life sciences venture capital firm, has raised €1.35 billion ($1.5 billion) for its two newest funds, bringing the firm’s total funds under management to €3 billion. Both exceeded their original target sizes and represent Forbion’s largest fundraising to date. Both funds reached their hard caps of €750

Flexstone Partners raises $790m for co-investment fund

Flexstone Partners has closed another vintage of its small- and middle-market private equity co-investment funds – Flexstone Partners’ Global Opportunities IV – with $790 million in capital commitments, despite “challenging global markets”. An affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers with over $10 billion assets under management (AUM), Flexstone Partners specialises in

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