Marblegate Asset Management

11 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 21, 2022 by Andrew Milgram · said 12 times in 2 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Everything said about Marblegate Asset Management, oldest first

Apr 21, 2022
Disclosure
Milgram: About three-quarters of Marblegate's purchases are direct-sourced and non-competitive
“About three quarters of what we have bought has been direct sourced, non-competitive.”
Andrew Milgram Apr 21, 2022 ▶ 24:36 Andrew Milgram – Mid-Market Distressed Investing at Marblegate (Manager Meetings EP.29)
Apr 21, 2022 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Many levered borrowers are already unable to satisfy their debts
“What we see today as we look at the earnings power of companies that we're talking to lenders about, that they are in that place already. They are facing real inability to satisfy their debts as they come due, which is one of the classic destinations of insolv…”
Andrew Milgram Apr 21, 2022 ▶ 48:16 Andrew Milgram – Mid-Market Distressed Investing at Marblegate (Manager Meetings EP.29)
Apr 21, 2022
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Creditor-on-creditor violence and priming transactions will increase in coming years
“And this creditor on creditor violence is a rising trend that I don't see going away anytime soon. Until the creditor groups start to write tighter credit agreements, or the courts define very narrow guidelines around how these credit agreements can be interpr…”
Andrew Milgram Apr 21, 2022 ▶ 30:36 Andrew Milgram – Mid-Market Distressed Investing at Marblegate (Manager Meetings EP.29)
Apr 21, 2022
Insight
Milgram: You invest with a butcher's knife, but restructure with a scalpel
“This is an in the weeds game. And so one of the things I talked to my investment team about is you invest with a butcher's knife, but you restructure with a scalpel. And if you don't do the detail work, You're going to get a bad outcome.”
Andrew Milgram Apr 21, 2022 ▶ 56:54 Andrew Milgram – Mid-Market Distressed Investing at Marblegate (Manager Meetings EP.29)
Apr 21, 2022 positive
Insight
Milgram: Middle-Market Distressed Credit Avoids Multi-Deal Mega-Fund Conflicts
“Honestly, it's why we like to be in the middle market because there's way, way, way less of that in the middle market. We are oftentimes the only secondary buyer in a credit we're working on. We're certainly the early Identifier and early adopter of that credi…”
Andrew Milgram Apr 21, 2022 ▶ 36:01 Andrew Milgram – Mid-Market Distressed Investing at Marblegate (Manager Meetings EP.29)
Apr 21, 2022
Disclosure
Milgram: Marblegate bought 46 NYC taxi medallions at Citibank foreclosure auction
“Our first purchase was of outright medallions and literally found out about it by doing what any good distress guy does. I opened the wall street journal and I immediately turned to the distress guy sporting pages, which are the foreclosure notices in the back…”
Andrew Milgram Apr 21, 2022 ▶ 38:11 Andrew Milgram – Mid-Market Distressed Investing at Marblegate (Manager Meetings EP.29)
Apr 21, 2022
Disclosure
Milgram became a licensed NYC taxi driver to conduct investment diligence
“So one of the pieces of our diligence process is I became a licensed taxi driver and went out and drove cabs, which I still do.”
Andrew Milgram Apr 21, 2022 ▶ 40:34 Andrew Milgram – Mid-Market Distressed Investing at Marblegate (Manager Meetings EP.29)
Apr 21, 2022 positive
Insight
Credit investors are obligated by fiduciary duty to seize value creation
“And I think there's a much more level playing field today, and I think that, look, we all have a fiduciary duty to the investors we serve, and so if the opportunity for value creation exists, it's your obligation to take it.”
Andrew Milgram Apr 21, 2022 ▶ 33:37 Andrew Milgram – Mid-Market Distressed Investing at Marblegate (Manager Meetings EP.29)
Apr 21, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Marblegate buys legal documents rather than just companies to drive restructuring
“First and foremost, part of our investment process is that while we invest in companies, we Buy documents. And those documents are what enable us to drive the investment process.”
Andrew Milgram Apr 21, 2022 ▶ 26:04 Andrew Milgram – Mid-Market Distressed Investing at Marblegate (Manager Meetings EP.29)
Apr 21, 2022 negative
Disclosure
Marblegate avoids oil and gas due to uncontrollable commodity risk
“We stayed away from oil and gas primarily because as we thought about it, there was, you were primarily taking commodity price risk. And that's a hard thing for us. Well, impossible thing for us to control. And so the tools of restructuring our value biased ap…”
Andrew Milgram Apr 21, 2022 ▶ 25:16 Andrew Milgram – Mid-Market Distressed Investing at Marblegate (Manager Meetings EP.29)
Dec 26, 2022
Disclosure
Seides takes on advisory roles with FEG, 10 East, and Marblegate
“This year, I started new engagements with Fund Evaluation Group, 10 East, and Marblegate Asset Management.”
Ted Seides Dec 26, 2022 ▶ 12:00 Year in Review 2022 (Capital Allocators, EP. 289)
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