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Senior Secured

Senior Secured is pursued by 10 firms tracked on DataBane, spanning Private Credit. Coverage includes 7 funds linked to this strategy, with vintages, sizes and performance where disclosed. The largest tracked manager by assets is BlackRock at $13.89T. Profiles below cover each firm's mandate, focus areas, funds and relationships — updated as analysts publish new research.

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Firms

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Related funds

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Asset classes

Asset-class mix

Insight

Most concentrated in Private Credit (10 of 10 firms). BlackRock is the largest tracked manager at $13.89T.

Firms pursuing this strategy

BlackRockUnited States$13.89T NuveenUnited States$1.4T Manulife Investment ManagementCanada$1.11T Russell InvestmentsUnited States$416B Aegon Asset ManagementNetherlands$287.5B Thoma BravoUnited States$160B Vista Equity PartnersUnited States$100B Silver LakeUnited States$100B MPSERSUSA - MI$87.06B Adams Street PartnersUnited States$73B

Geographic exposure

Europe36North America31Global21Asia14United Kingdom6United States6Germany5France4Canada3Oceania3South America2United Arab Emirates2

Related funds

ASP PIF CLO I, LLC · 2026 Private Credit III · 2026 BlackRock Private Credit Fund III · 2024 HPS Corporate Lending Fund (HLEND) · 2024 GIP Credit Opportunities Fund · 2024 BlackRock Multi Strategy Credit Fund · 2022 BlackRock Direct Lending Fund II · 2021

Recent news

partnership

Adams Street Partners Partners with iCapital to Expand Private Markets Access

Adams Street Partners

partnership

Adams Street Partners Partners with GeoWealth to Distribute Private Market Offerings

Adams Street Partners

deal

B Capital-led Consortium to Acquire Russell Investments for $2.8 Billion

Russell Investments · 09/07/2026

deal

Nuveen Energy Infrastructure Credit completes US$546 million preferred equity investment in SunZia.

Nuveen · 01/07/2026

exit

Nemetschek Group Completes Acquisition of HCSS

Thoma Bravo · 01/07/2026

other

Vista Equity Partners and Cambium Launch Vector Core Compute

Vista Equity Partners · 03/06/2026

other

WWEX Group and Auctane Complete Merger

Thoma Bravo · 01/06/2026

deal

Russell Investments Wins A$8.6B Currency Overlay Mandate from Income Insurance

Russell Investments · 27/05/2026

strategy

Vista Equity Partners Establishes Abu Dhabi Office

Vista Equity Partners · 14/05/2026

strategy

Power Factors Welcomes Mubadala as Strategic Investor

Vista Equity Partners · 06/05/2026