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Covenant Lite

Allocator at Top 5 Fund of Funds, Private Credit focus, Niche Strategies preferred. Weekly articles on private credit topics.

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Before Software, Private Credit's Problem Child was Energy

A history lesson courtesy of Apollo

[Re-post of CL #1] A History of Private Credit

Forces that shaped the industry and where it's going

Blue Owl on the Ropes

When the going gets tough in private credit

How Ares Built an ABF Platform the Slow Way

Lessons from one of the leaders in alternative credit

Everyone Becomes a Bank Eventually

Is the end state of all non-banks to become a bank?

2025 Year-End Review

What a year it's been

Covenant Lite #47: Blackstone and Oaktree Think They Can Predict the Weather

How private credit is increasingly looking to invest in catastrophe reinsurance

Covenant Lite #46: The Forgotten History of Insurance as America’s Original Private Lender

Why insurance capital in private credit is more reversion than innovation

Covenant Lite #45: Blue Owl's Failed Merger and Cracks in Non-Traded BDCs

A case of poor timing or something bigger?

Covenant Lite #44: The Interval Fund That Ate the Market

Inside Cliffwater's $32B Credit Machine