Franklin Square Capital Partners, a leading alternative asset manager, today announced that it will be consolidating its entities under its FS Investments brand. The firm will now be known as FS Investments and its affiliated broker-dealer, FS2 Capital Partners, will be FS Investment Solutions.

On Tuesday, October 20, FS Heroes hosted FourBlock for a virtual professional development workshop. FourBlock provides professional development opportunities to veterans reentering the workforce. FourBlock veterans and FS employees engaged in a discussion about forging new career pathways. FS Heroes is an FS Employee Resource Group that serves the firm’s growing network of military service members, recruits new...

Mike Kelly, Chief Investment Officer at Franklin Square, shares his thoughts with Forbes on what’s happening in the world of business development companies today.

On Tuesday, March 23, 2021, we hosted a virtual open house for FS employees to learn more about our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). Our growing, employee-led network of ERGs focuses on building a more diverse, welcoming and inclusive organization. Attendees learned about each group’s mission, current goals and opportunities to get involved. Our Employee Resource...

On Wednesday, February 19, FS Investments’ Drexel University co-ops participated in a volunteer event with Project Sunshine. As part of the FS co-op experience, Drexel University students have the opportunity to develop and pitch volunteer service projects to a panel of FS employees. Both Drexel co-ops and FS colleagues participated in a recent volunteer event...

On Thursday, December 5, FS employees volunteered during Children’s Scholarship Fund Philadelphia’s Lottery Day, an annual CSFP event that brings together donors, parents and volunteers to celebrate the awarding of thousands of new scholarships to Philadelphia families in need. CSFP provides underserved families with critical scholarship funding to ensure children living in Philadelphia have access...

On Thursday, April 13, 2023, our Chairman and CEO Michael Forman and the FSCO team, including Andrew Beckman and Nick Heilbut, rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate the Fund’s recent listing. Watch the video to go behind the scenes of our morning at the NYSE.

FS Investments hosts CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion Check Your Blind Spots national tour to educate visitors about diversity, inclusion and unconscious bias.

On Thursday, January 23, FS Investments hosted students from Drexel University’s BRIDGE program and Money Management Institute’s Gateway to Leadership program. MMI’s Gateway to Leadership program fosters career awareness and workforce readiness for students of color from historically under-represented communities by providing internship and employment opportunities in the financial services industry. Drexel University’s BRIDGE program supports under-represented...

FS Investments has hired Brian Gerson as Head of Private Credit. In this new role, he will oversee the firm's expanding business development company and credit platform.