Credit

Access private credit with Blue Owl

Our Credit platform serves as a financing partner of choice for private companies, has expertise across direct lending and alternative credit investing capabilities, and seeks to provide investors high current income, capital preservation, and attractive risk-adjusted returns 

Credit Outlook featuring Marc Lipschultz & Craig Packer
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What differentiates our Credit platform

As a market leader in private credit, we are differentiated by our scale, experience, capabilities, and track record.

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Scale

Ability to originate sizeable loans of $1b+ and large deal funnels allow for selectivity

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Experience

240+ experienced investment professionals with domain expertise

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Capabilities

Direct Lending and Alternative Credit are differentiated strategies with low correlations, reflecting the breadth of our sourcing and underwriting capabilities

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Track record

Demonstrated performance across market cycles while seeking to preserve capital, as our alternative credit and direct lending businesses were founded in 2006 and 2016, respectively

Our investment strategies

Blue Owl’s Credit platform offers investors access to two strategies.

Direct Lending

Our direct lending strategy primarily focuses on lending to upper-middle-market companies, both private equity-sponsored and non-sponsored, that are operating in recession-resistant industries or non-cyclical end markets.

Through non-traded business development companies (BDCs), our strategy aims to offer investors the potential to generate income by originating debt and making equity investments in U.S. middle market companies.

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Diversified Lending
Borrower Trends Over Time in Direct Lending

Learn about the borrower trends in the direct lending, with larger scaled companies entering the market and incumbent borrowers coming back for more financings.

Role of direct lending in diversified portfolios

Direct lending has historically generated attractive, consistent income, which can potentially offer ballast and predictability to a portfolio.

Redefining partnerships: Associa

We partner with some of the largest and most successful private companies in the US. Hear from long-time partner Associa about why they’ve chosen to partner with us and leverage direct lending as a financing solution.

Our Business Development Companies

Through perpetually non-traded BDCs, we offer two solutions, OCIC and OTIC, that provide investors   access points to our direct lending strategy.
Blue Owl Credit Income Corp. (OCIC)

Direct lending

Blue Owl Credit Income Corp. (OCIC)

OCIC seeks to generate current income through a high-quality portfolio of predominantly senior secured, directly originated floating rate loans to U.S. middle and upper middle-market companies diversified across non-cyclical, recession-resistant sectors.

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Blue Owl Technology Income Corp. (OTIC)

Direct lending

Blue Owl Technology Income Corp. (OTIC)

OTIC seeks to generate current income and capital appreciation by employing a risk-adjusted approach to investing in U.S.-based software and technology -related companies.

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Endnotes

1. Multi-year recognition by Private Debt Investor as Specialty Finance Lender of the Year with most recent in 2024. Private Debt Investor ("PDI") is an independent organization that is not affiliated with Blue Owl Alternative Credit (fka Atalaya Capital Management). These awards were granted to Atalaya Capital Management prior to its acquisition by Blue Owl. PDI's selection process involved an initial fee-free application where managers were nominated for award categories and subsequently subject to an online reader poll that prompts readers to vote for a particular firm in one or more of multiple enumerated categories, including Lender of the Year. The nomination criteria are inherently subjective and account for a mixture of qualitative and quantitative criteria, including non-financial considerations. Blue Owl Alternative Credit has provided compensation to Private Debt Investor in connection with sponsorship in other publications but not in connection with the consideration for or receipt of these awards. Award recipients were announced by PDI in March of 2025. Blue Owl Alternative Credit is unaware of any factor that could call into question the validity of its selection as PDI's 2024 Lender of the Year, and the award is not indication of Blue Owl Alternative Credit’s future performance. There can be no assurance that another organization or different sampling process would achieve similar results.

2. References to “downside protection” or similar language are not guarantees against loss of investment capital or value.

Important information

Unless otherwise noted the Report Date referenced herein is as of December 31, 2025. 

Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.

Assets Under Management (“AUM”) refers to the assets that we  manage and is generally equal to the sum of (i) net asset value (“NAV”); (ii) drawn and undrawn debt; (iii) uncalled capital commitments; (iv) total managed assets for certain Credit and Real Assets products; and (v) par value of collateral for collateralized loan obligations (“CLOs”) and other securitizations.

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