Barings has arranged secured credit facilities supporting Inflexion's investment in Primed Group, a German manufacturer of medical consumables and sterilisation services. Financial terms were not disclosed. Founded in 1946 and based in Halberstadt, Primed designs, manufactures and distributes single-use medical products used by hospitals and healthcare facilities. The company employs over 450 people and operates a vertically integrated manufacturing platform. Primed's MDR-certified products are used in more than 70 countries. The business also operates HA2, described as one of Europe's largest medical sterilisation platforms. Inflexion manages approximately €20 billion and targets middle-market businesses valued from €50 million to over €1 billion. Barings has approximately $502 billion in assets under management as of 30 June 2026.

Barings has appointed Ankit Aggarwal as Head of Global CLO Issuance and Capital Markets, a newly created role. Based in New York, Aggarwal will lead the firm's global CLO issuance platform and capital markets strategy for its $55 billion CLO platform spanning broadly syndicated loans, private credit, and infrastructure debt. Aggarwal joins from Bank of America, where he led the US CLO banking and structuring team and CLO equity distribution. He has nearly two decades of experience in structured credit and capital markets. Earlier in his career, he served as Vice President at Deutsche Bank, focusing on CLO origination and structuring. Barings is a $502 billion global alternative asset manager.

Barings has appointed Brian Maute as Head of U.S. Wealth in a newly created role. Maute will lead the firm's US wealth distribution strategy across intermediary channels, including registered investment advisors, broker dealers, private banks and family offices. He will report to Ilena Coyle, Head of North America Insurance and Intermediary Distribution. Maute joins from DWS Group, where he spent over 15 years, most recently as Head of U.S. Wealth and chief executive officer of DWS Distributors. He will focus on expanding advisor and investor access to Barings' global investment platform across credit, real assets, capital solutions and emerging markets. Barings is a $502 billion global alternative asset manager and subsidiary of MassMutual.