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Not all special situations strategies are focused on distressed investing. Managing directors Aaron Peck and Cesar Gueikian, co-portfolio managers of Monroe Capital’s Opportunistic Private Credit strategies, highlight how opportunistic private credit differs from more traditional distressed strategies
Finding less efficient niches in a congested market is becoming a challenge for many fund managers. Structured credit offers attractive opportunities in underfished waters, explain Alcentra’s Hiram Hamilton and Cathy Bevan.
Special situations offer many advantages over traditional distressed or turnaround debt, but success requires a bespoke approach, explains Emmanuel Bonnaud, managing partner with Capzanine Special Situations.
Research shows that firms with leadership teams representing an array of backgrounds are more profitable. Antares Board members Melina Higgins and Diane Nordin discuss why a diverse workforce makes good business sense.
With Europe’s private debt markets continuing to mature, fund managers are growing businesses across the region. Graeme Delaney-Smith, head of European direct lending at Alcentra, considers the opportunity.
Paul Johnson, a partner at EQT Partners, investment advisor to funds within the EQT Credit platform, talks to PDI about mid-market private debt opportunities in Europe, and his outlook on the current credit cycle.
As larger players move in, the lower mid-market is getting more crowded. But having scale alone does not guarantee success, explains Grant Haggard, partner at Twin Brook Capital Partners.
In a competitive mid-market, a strong deal pipeline is important but effective fund management is also a powerful tool for driving returns, explains Robert Radway,
CEO and chairman of NXT Capital.
As the US private debt industry has evolved, so have the demands on mid-market managers. Tim Houghton and Mike Fredian of Cortland, part of Alter Domus Group since March 2018, offer PDI a fund administrator’s
take on the market.
In an environment where private equity sponsors are demanding flexibility, managers need to be selective, Walter Owens, chief executive of Varagon Capital Partners, tells PDI.