Best hedge funds in HY space

What are the most notable HY players that are absolute return focused i.e. known for bond investing in particular? Any under the radar funds / pods / names / trades would be incredibly helpful. Performing / stressed would be helpful since I'm much more familiar with distressed

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Anyone have any thoughts on Bracebridge? They seem to fit the criteria although they don't only do credit. 

 

Redwood is mostly long biased and they have a larger long-biased credit fund  alongside their master fund. Goldentree and Brigade both have large structured credit HFs that put on single name shorts very often. The analysts I know at both are always discussing shorts so they definitely do it.

Anchorage was among the larger funds with a more dynamic focus on shorting but they also lost ton of money shorting so I doubt they do it to same scale, especially since the fund has downsized significantly. 

 

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