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Chris Janiec

Chris Janiec is Americas Editor at Agri Investor. Based in New York, Janiec coordinates coverage of private investment into global food and agriculture with colleagues in London. Previously, Janiec covered non-bank capital markets for PEI’s Private Debt Investor, taught international relations and US foreign policy at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing and worked as an analyst of petroleum and shipping markets in New York.
The US listed alternative asset manager said matching previous returns from its credit funds is not possible in the current environment. 
The Chicago – based mid-market lender had added an additional $100m to an existing credit facility for Elevate. The new capital brings the size of the facility to $545m as the online lender prepares to go public early next year.   
Hedge fund and commodity fund losses challenged Carlyle’s Global Market Strategies platform in the second quarter and have prompted a review of its strategy, according to executives on the firm’s quarterly conference call.
The alternative investment firm’s various debt funds revealed performance of zero to 9% in the second quarter.  
Asset sales to date from GE Capital total $168 billion, with deals for an additional $15 billion in assets expected to be signed during the third quarter.    
Lazard has added Christopher Mulshine to its private capital advisory group unit.  
The $2.9b pension has committed $20m to the second private credit fund from Monroe, a Chicago-based mid-market lender.  
The  Los Angeles-based mid-market lender has provided $25m in rescue financing to Enphase Energy. 
Longtime BlackRock executive Patrick Dunne will join the marketplace lender as chief capital officer as part of an effort to improve investor confidence following the May departure of the firm's founder and CEO. 
Approval of Venoco’s restructuring plan has left two of the company’s creditors as majority owners.  
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