Objective:

  • Generate equity like returns with lower risk
  • Add alpha with respect to traditional investment strategies

Investment Mandate:

  • Long and short - but not market neutral
  • AAA to defaulted debt
  • Across product type - loans, bonds, CDS
  • Sovereign and corporate risk
  • Emerging and developed markets
  • Up to 20% in equities

Risk Approach:

  • Consider risk characteristics under both normal and stress conditions
  • Consider risk characteristics over both short and long horizons
  • Assets with similar short term risk characteristics under normal conditions can have very different risk characteristics under conditions of shock
  • Assets with similar short term risk characteristics under short horizons can have very different risk characteristics under long horizons
  • Deeply undervalued securities will typically have similar short term risk to fairly valued securities but dramatically lower long term risk
  • Cash producing securities with similar short term risk to non-cash producing securities can have lower long term risk on account of lower exposure to valuation risk
  • Diversification may decrease specific risk exposure but not exposure to market wide events and shock
  • Large positions in deeply undervalued assets increase specific risk and short term risk but could lower long term risk of permanent impairment of value