Cyrus Capital (UK Office)

LdnMezz — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:15:40 -0400

Any have a view on them?

CFA for debt investors

LdnMezz — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:15:05 -0400

Apologies, but couldn't quite place which category for the topic.

Basic question - how valuable is the CFA to debt investors (either leveraged loans or publicly traded debt)?

S&P Equity Research vs. Exane BNP Paribas

LdnMezz — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:08:57 -0400

In london. Not for me, but just wanted to get a sense of which, for an experienced hire (3 yrs experience), has better future prospects/prestige etc.

Cheers.

Question for experienced people working in funds

LdnMezz — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:59:02 -0500

Ok, so I work in a debt fund, on the asset team. We are a levered fund and a large part of our returns obviously comes from levering equity and the spread between the assets we invest in and the cost of debt. We have a 2 person liabilities team who are in charge of this. For various reasons (raising capacity) we are looking at exit/expansion routes for our first fund.

Anthropological insights into banking behaviour

LdnMezz — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:32:51 -0500

This is a fairly interesting article. A little simplistic (but the author does admit to that), but worth a read. Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere on the site.

Credit hedge fund info

LdnMezz — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:46:45 -0500

I currently work for a largely buy and hold debt fund (can do small trades on existing portfolio companies) that can invest in all of the capital structure but typically looks at Second Lien to PIK for return purposes.

Buckingham Research Group

LdnMezz — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:46:01 -0400

Anyone heard of them?

Pay and Compensation in Debt funds

LdnMezz — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:32:12 -0400

Would like to know what base salaries are, what % of base bonus typically is, and when people tend to get carry in debt funds. I have searched a bit for this and not much has come up. Particularly interested in London numbers if possible. Thanks.

Anyone working in a mezz/sub senior fund?

LdnMezz — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:11:58 -0400

I recently made the move from banking and would like to get in touch with people who work in a debt fund to get their thoughts on salary / potential moves etc.