Daniel Zwirn, a former hedge fund luminary and now head of investment firm Arena Investors, is one of the authors of a white paper predicting trouble ahead for, among other things, mid-market loans and leveraged loans. In this video, he explains his concerns.
4 min read · 04 June 2019
Roy Kuo, the head of the Church Commissioners for England’s alternative strategies team, outlines the role of private debt in its investment strategy
4 min read · 03 June 2019
With fears of a financial downturn in 2019 on the back burner, the strategy of adding additional leverage is trending upward.
3 min read · 31 May 2019
The firm, which sees managers making decisions they will later regret, will invest in privately negotiated transactions on already-originated loans.
2 min read · 31 May 2019
Managers should differentiate themselves by being flexible investment partners to their investors, as a Canadian bank’s research demonstrated this week.
3 min read · 30 May 2019
Its 2012-vintage fund posted lacklustre results, while its vehicle launched in 2015 has been among the better performing from that year.
1 min read · 29 May 2019
The firm has surpassed the targets for its past two funds, which have been mainly made up of non-private equity-backed companies, and is almost halfway to the third fund’s target.
1 min read · 28 May 2019
The new vehicle, which was launched last year, comes as the firm is raising a separate tech-growth vehicle – its third in that fund series.
2 min read · 28 May 2019
As many powerful financial actors have come out against leveraged lending, the US central bank leader does not see a looming ‘the-sky-is-falling’ moment.
2 min read · 22 May 2019