Overview Attention in the private credit markets remains largely focused on Europe in advance of the Asset Quality Review (“AQR”). A widely anticipated review by the European Central Bank of the financial health of 130 of Europe’s largest banks, the...
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InvestHedge Profile on Silver Creek Silver Creek Capital Management is on a roll. Over the past four years, the Seattle-based multimanager firm has attracted new inflows of more than $2 billion into its multi-strategy and private credit commingled funds and...
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Overview As interest in liquid alternatives surges and the search for yield continues, public Business Development Companies (“BDCs”) have received significant institutional interest. These REIT-like vehicles, which have historically focused on the retail market, appear very attractive at first blush,...
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Overview Continued complacency seemed to define the second quarter of 2014, with investors seemingly willing to assume that U.S. growth prospects will remain solid and that the Federal Reserve will manage any issues appropriately. This view was evidenced by the...
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Overview Timberland investors are well positioned to benefit from the uptrend of sawlog prices that is currently underway in many parts of the world. In the U.S., demand for softwood sawlogs has been steadily increasing since 2009 and fundamentals support...
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Overview Private credit is largely absent from institutional investors’ asset allocations. Yet the opportunity set offers what nearly all investors need: yield, diversification and attractive risk-adjusted returns. Is there some way for this underserved asset class to fit within an...
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Overview It is obviously impossible to discuss the behavior of timberland returns during any period of time without first getting clear on how those returns can be measured. To that end, there are two ways in principle to go about...
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Overview With traditional fixed income returns negative year-to-date, investors understand that something must be done. However, investing with a single manager who holds perhaps twenty loans that do not trade is not the solution. Unfortunately, that is what some institutional...
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Silver Creek Capital Management LLC (“Silver Creek”), a global private credit investor and investment manager with more than $5.5 billion in assets under management, today announced two senior additions to the firm’s credit team. Art Zaske has rejoined Silver Creek...
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Overview Private credit investing is a necessary component of high-functioning capital markets and economies. Capital can stagnate and economies could grow below their long run potential without mechanisms for financing smaller companies, clearing bad debt, and unlocking value in distressed...
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