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Craig Bergstrom no published score: no usable exchanges on raw tape, and a fair score needs 8+ · coarse estimate ≈4.5/5 from 6 produced feed exchanges record → ← everyone
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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 5 5.00
Q I want to take a step back and talk about the outlook for the space in general. Craig, the most obvious change, certainly over the last year, is the rate environment. How does the rate environment affect what you're doing, both on your decisions and what you expect from the portfolio?
A So there's the short-term answer, which was painful last year, but I think driven by disruption caused by how quickly rates moved, in particular, long-term discount rates. Most of our portfolio, we think, has a pretty direct structural relationship to short-term rates. We're active in long-short equity where people earn short rebate off short rates. Most of our credit portfolio is either truly floating rate or effectively doesn't carry much rate duration because of coupon or price or event-driven characteristics. And even our macro portfolio typically carries a pretty high level of unencumbered cash, which should earn short rates. So if we're moving to an environment of structurally higher rates, we would expect our returns to be structurally higher in a highly correlated and direct fashion.
AI assessment note: “we would expect our returns to be structurally higher in a highly correlated and direct fashion”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q How do you think about the positioning of Antara in your portfolios?
A Sure. So it's a strategy that we actually regard broadly with some skepticism. I remember when I started in this business about 20 years ago, the idea of event-driven and special situation equity and credit was very appealing, right? You see, okay, the regular way investors and the mutual funds don't want to be involved as these companies undergo transitions. And I would say the real life observed experience for a lot of these strategies has unfortunately been pretty poor nonetheless. And I think that's because you end up in a lot of hedge fund hotels. It's a relatively small number of positions with quite high hedge fund ownership and overlap, and that produces a lot of downside air pockets. So when you look at the strategy, The bad months for the strategy are very often bad months for our overall portfolio, and almost all of the bad months for our overall portfolio are bad months for that sort of strategy. So we don't own a ton of it as a result of that, and that in a sense made it easier for us to find a space here, but it was certainly conviction driven. So It's a strategy that we think of as having a decent amount of hedge fund beta, some downside beta, and we certainly want someone who owns a differentiated portfolio to the extent that's possible, either names or trade construction. And this is true across a lot of what we do. We want someone who swings pretty hard on the…
AI assessment note: “So we don't own a ton of it as a result of that”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q And how do you go about sizing that in your portfolios?
A Everything that we do has a pretty strong look through to underlying position sizing. So we are willing to take a hundred basis point look through security level risk. We certainly routinely want to carry 40 or 50 basis point look through single security risk. In this case, there's also sort of a conviction element which drives our sizing and is a little bit offset by sort of where people are in the life cycle. And what fund level vol looks like. So this is sized as a medium sized position for us. Not as big as someone who runs a somewhat more diversified portfolio or someone who is much more orthogonal to the rest of our portfolio, but certainly sized reflecting significant investment conviction for us.
AI assessment note: “we are willing to take a hundred basis point look through security level risk.”
