Ares raises $4.2bn for debut structured solutions fund, four times its $1bn target
AltAssets · 2026-10-02
Global
Ares has raised $4.2bn for its first structured solutions fund, more than four times the $1bn target set for the vehicle.
Last verified 2026-10-02
Fund News — Friday 2 October 2026
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The week's fund-industry signal, curated: fund launches and closes, manager and servicer moves, and figures from our own registers. Every trade-press item links its source and ends with why it matters to someone who runs or services funds. Trade-press items are published only after every cited source was machine-verified; register figures are computed from the published data files. This edition has a permanent address; a factual error is corrected in place.
Launches, closes and wind-downs
Partners Group plans to split its €6.6bn Global Value SICAV evergreen fund into distributing and compounding portfolios after June's redemption cap
Private Equity Wire · 2026-10-02
Global
Partners Group plans to convert its €6.6bn Global Value SICAV into an umbrella with a distributing fund and a compounding fund, subject to shareholder approval, according to Bloomberg.
Oaktree raises $2bn for its debut institutional asset-backed finance fund, as Brookfield's platform passes $60bn
AltAssets · 2026-10-02
Global
Oaktree has raised $2bn for its first institutional asset-backed finance fund, and the wider Brookfield platform has now passed $60bn.
Investcorp closes second North American private equity fund at $1.22bn
AltAssets · 2026-10-02
North America
Investcorp has closed its second North American private equity fund at $1.22bn, beating the fund's target.
HanseMerkur Grundvermögen launches sixth real estate debt fund, targeting up to €500m, with a first €40m green loan already made
Alternative Credit Investor · 2026-10-02
Global
HanseMerkur Grundvermögen, the investment arm of insurer HanseMerkur, has launched its sixth private real estate debt fund with a target of up to €500m.
Industry moves
SoftBank completes $3.1bn DigitalBridge buyout; Wendel exits Stahl for €2.1bn
AltAssets · 2026-10-02
Global
SoftBank has completed its $3.1bn buyout of DigitalBridge, according to AltAssets' deal roundup. The same roundup reports that Wendel has sealed a €2.1bn exit from Stahl.
SEC proposes three rule changes to widen retail access to private funds: a sophistication test, wider performance-fee eligibility and looser interval-fund repurchases
Private Equity Wire · 2026-10-01
Global
The SEC's three commissioners unanimously approved the three proposals, which now enter a 60-day comment period.
Apollo extends daily pricing to its full $850bn credit platform, with asset-level pricing for eligible funds from 30 October
Private Equity Wire · 2026-10-02
Global
Apollo has extended daily pricing across its $850bn credit platform, covering direct lending, asset-backed finance, multi-credit and opportunistic credit.
From our own data
239 of 254 US public plans report total investment expense — 1 has ever itemised a private-equity expense line
Public Plans Database · plan FYs 2022–2025
North America
The central Public Plans Database defines a private-equity expense field; across 254 tracked plans it has effectively never been populated — PE fees and carried interest sit inside aggregate lines or outside the accounts entirely. Where a figure is not disclosed, that absence is the data point; nothing here can or should be inferred.
Changelog
Publication and corrections (1 entry) · latest 2026-10-02
- 2026-10-02 — published.