Homestead Capital Launches Agricultural Private Credit: What It Means for Your Portfolio
Homestead Capital just drew a line between owning farmland and lending against it. The San Francisco investment manager announced the first close of its inaugural agricultural private-credit fund on...
Private Credit Just Raised $119 Billion in One Quarter. BDC Defaults Just Hit a Record Too.
Private credit funds raised $119 billion in the second quarter of 2026 alone, the fastest single-quarter pace on record, at the same time loan defaults inside the funds that hold this debt hit their...
The Private Credit Illiquidity Premium Is Quietly Disappearing
Private credit's central sales pitch has a quiet problem, and the legal industry noticed before most advisors did. A Dechert analysis published on Mondaq August 17, 2026 documents how business...
Eagle Point's New Infrastructure Fund Just Told You Who Gets In (and Who Does Not)
On August 6, 2026, a new entity called Eagle Point Infrastructure Credit Opportunity Fund US LP filed a Form D with the SEC. According to AltStreet Research , the filing shows the fund had already...
Non-Accrual Loans: The One BDC Metric You Should Check Before Yield or NAV
The median non-accrual ratio across the 20 largest business development companies climbed to 2.8% in the second quarter of 2026, up from 2.0% at the end of the first quarter. That is a 0.8 percentage...
Middle-Market CLOs Explained: How BDCs Fund Their Loans Without Margin Calls
You own shares in a business development company (BDC) because you want exposure to private-credit yield without underwriting individual loans yourself. But the return you collect depends on how that...
How to Read an Interval Fund's Repurchase Offer Before You Invest: A Checklist
An interval fund's repurchase offer is the only scheduled exit you will ever get. Before you wire a dollar, read every term of that offer. SEC Rule 23c-3 sets a floor of 5% and a ceiling of 25% of shares per quarter,...
Why Europe's Shrinking Share of Private Credit Fundraising Is the Buying Signal U.S. LPs Are Missing
TL;DR: Europe's share of global private credit fundraising fell to 23% in H1 2026 from 29% in 2025, and most U.S. allocators are reading that as a warning sign. I think they have it backwards. The drop in share is...
Private Credit Fundraising Hits a Record First Half in 2026 Even as BDC Redemptions Surge: The Bifurcation Explained
TL;DR: Institutional private credit fundraising hit $190 billion in final closes in H1 2026, a 53% jump over H1 2025 and already 80% of last year's full-year total, according to With Intelligence's August 12, 2026 H1...
CAIS Review 2026: The Alts Marketplace Wirehouse Advisors Actually Use
TL;DR: CAIS (caisgroup.com) is a B2B technology platform that gives independent financial advisors and RIAs access to institutional-quality alternative investments: hedge funds, private equity, private credit, real...
UBS's New Interval Fund Seeding Trick: Reorganizing an Existing Credit Partnership Into a Registered Vehicle
TL;DR: UBS Asset Management filed registration documents for the UBS Asset Management Credit Income Opportunities Fund, a non-diversified, closed-end interval fund organized as a Delaware statutory trust on July 9,...
Apollo Debt Solutions BDC's $514.9M CLO Close Amid Record Redemption Demand
Apollo Debt Solutions BDC closed a $514.9 million term debt securitization on August 6, 2026, the same week it confirmed that redemption demand had hit its highest level since the fund launched in 2022. According to...
Homestead Capital's $1.8B Agriculture Platform: Inside the First Close of Its $350M Private Credit Fund
On August 14, 2026, San Francisco-based Homestead Capital closed the first tranche of its debut commingled agriculture private credit fund, pulling in a $150 million anchor commitment from the private credit team of a...
Private Credit Is Financing the AI Datacenter Boom. Here's the Concentration Risk Nobody's Pricing.
TL;DR: Private credit funds are underwriting the AI datacenter boom by lending against GPUs and hyperscaler contracts, and the industry is pitching it as diversified, asset-backed credit. It is not....
On-Chain Private Credit: How Blockchain-Settled Fund Structures Actually Work (and Where They Don't)
TL;DR: Putting a private credit fund on a blockchain speeds up settlement and makes NAV updates more visible, but it does not turn illiquid corporate loans into a liquid asset. Apollo's ACRED and...
The Democratization of Private Markets Is a Liquidity Trap With Good Marketing
TL;DR: The "democratization of private markets" pitch tells you that interval funds, non-traded REITs, non-traded BDCs, and tokenized fund platforms now give you the same access institutions have always had. That is...
GCM Grosvenor's $1.2B Credit Secondaries Fund Signals a Market Shift
TL;DR: GCM Grosvenor closed its first dedicated private credit secondaries fund at $1.2 billion, according to the firm's own July 23, 2026 announcement , with the deal still generating fresh trade coverage into early...
The 2026 BDC Debt Issuance Wave: What Apollo, Kayne Anderson, and Blackstone's Deals Reveal About Private Credit Leverage
Apollo Debt Solutions BDC closed a $514.9 million CLO securitization on August 6, 2026 , and it's not an outlier. Kayne Anderson BDC (NYSE: KBDC) just booked $138.7 million in new Q2 private credit...
How to Read a BDC's 10-Q Before You Buy: A 7-Point Checklist for Retail Investors
The dividend yield printed on a business development company's cover page is the least useful number in the filing. Before you buy a BDC for its 10%+ yield, open the actual 10-Q and check whether...
What Is a Business Development Company (BDC)? A Retail Investor's Guide to Publicly Traded Private Credit
A Business Development Company, or BDC, is a publicly traded fund that lends to and invests in private middle-market companies (mostly), pays out at least 90% of its taxable income as dividends, and...