Overview “What is the optimal portfolio?” A question that has been discussed and debated since Harry Markowitz introduced modern portfolio theory (MPT) in his 1952 essay “Portfolio Selection.” While practitioners...
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Overview Oil prices, Brexit and the U.S. presidential election. In this mid-year private credit market update, we avoid all of these attention grabbing topics and instead provide data and analysis...
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Overview An axiom in investing is that credit markets are cyclical. Range bound or “valuation rich” credit markets are followed by spread widening environments (i.e., bear markets) which set up...
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Overview Concerns about slowing growth in China, a sharp drop in oil prices and heightened expectations around an imminent interest rate hike by the Fed drove markets sharply lower during...
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Eric Dillon, the founder of Silver Creek, sees a huge opportunity in European credit as banks shed loans. From Barron's, Nov. 2015 From his office on the top floor of...
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Silver Creek Capital Management and Plum Creek Timber Launch $1 Billion Joint Venture – Twin Creeks Timber Silver Creek Capital Management (“Silver Creek”), an alternative investment boutique focusing on private...
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Overview At the beginning of June the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (“CPPIB”) won a competitive bidding process to buy GE Antares, the middle market direct lending arm of GE...
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Overview While the Goldilocks metaphor – the little girl who tasted porridge that was too hot and then too cold until finding one that was just right – is vastly...
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Overview As specialists in private credit, a diverse market encompassing consumer lending, commercial and residential real estate-related finance and corporate lending, Silver Creek believes that many other alternative yield opportunities...
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Overview In late October the European Central Bank (“ECB”) released the results of the Asset Quality Review (“AQR”), a widely anticipated review of the financial health of 130 of Europe’s...
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