Frank Danieli
8 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 16, 2026 by Frank Danieli · across every show →
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Jul 16, 2026 positive
Danieli: MA Financial stress-tests every loan to identify break points
“We've designed our credit philosophy around an approach we call what you have to believe. That's all about saying, every time we do a loan, we want to know where it breaks. Every loan, we want to know where you do lose money, even if it looks like a remote set…”
Jul 16, 2026
Jul 16, 2026
Danieli: Most investing alpha comes from portfolio and risk management
“My biggest investment pet peeve is when people focus only on the investments themselves. They forget that that's just one third the job. Most of the alpha in the business of investing, I believe, comes from portfolio management and from risk management. These …”
Jul 16, 2026
Danieli: Credit Diversification Requires Different Asset Types, Not Just Scale
“The fundamental problem isn't lending to software. The fundamental problem isn't doing sponsor backed loans. The fundamental problem Is that in the business of lending, you need a big diversified balance sheet, not only scale or diversification in the sense of…”
Jul 16, 2026 bullish
Jul 16, 2026 positive
Danieli: MA Financial bans the word 'originator' to enforce accountability
“The investment team, by their nature, they're there to source investments, underwrite loans and positions. They're not originators. We've banned that word. We don't want them to just originate, throw it over the fence, and it's someone else's problem now. We w…”
Jul 16, 2026
Danieli: MA Financial invested $240M of internal capital into its funds
“We've spent hundreds of millions of dollars of our own money building out that ecosystem. On top of that, we've invested heavily, two hundred and forty million dollars of firm and staff capital in the funds to show alignment, skin in the game in what we're doi…”
Jul 16, 2026 positive
Danieli: Credit Stress Testing Must Target Discrete Micro Risks Over Macro Factors
“The macro stress testing, we thought about it a lot at the time of deal inception. How far can things fall in the world or the bad things happen before our capital is going to face an issue? Has the underlying business collateral or asset changed so that that …”