Helping banks create efficiencies by acquiring their performing and non-performing loans generates good returns in all markets, says Paul Burdell, co-founder and chief executive at LCM Partners.
5 min read · 03 May 2022
Lenders are gaining the upper hand as well as the ability to build a stronger portfolio.
3 min read · 02 May 2022
With investors tending to favour special situations and capital solutions funds, the large-scale distressed opportunity has fallen out of fashion. But in a world shaken to its foundations by conflict, in addition to an array of troubling economic indicators, has the real world usurped the best-laid plans? Andy Thomson investigates
10 min read · 01 April 2022
The manager’s special situations fund is targeting a fundraise of $750m.
1 min read · 29 March 2022
Distress opportunities could open up in the months ahead as inflation, rate hikes and geopolitical disturbances – above all, the war in Ukraine – create more economic uncertainty.
2 min read · 11 March 2022
Distressed investing has had a relatively quiet time of it, but that’s about to change. FocusPoint’s co-founder and CEO examines the pressures that are mounting up to create an explosion of opportunity
5 min read · 01 March 2022
Support schemes have protected businesses from the worst effects of the pandemic. But what happens when this help comes to an end?
2 min read · 01 March 2022
Those waiting for distressed debt activity to pick up have needed a lot of patience. Are they finally set to be rewarded?
2 min read · 17 February 2022
The Los Angeles-based manager is angling itself for another round of volatility, says Justin Guichard, co-portfolio manager of the platform.
4 min read · 01 February 2022