The private debt asset class includes a multitude of strategies that can be grouped into a few general categories. We like Mercer’s framework, which groups strategies into direct lending, structured credit, credit opportunities, asset-based lending, and specialty finance. HCG sits squarely in specialty finance, a broad category that has one common feature across managers: expertise…
It feels like the tug of war between reality and perception warrants some myth-busting. More and more, we observe that many hard facts around general consumer debt levels and consumer credit are presented without context and under headlines that intimate impending doom and gloom. What’s the saying – Fear Sells? In this commentary, we dive…
Pete Davidson may be the silver screen’s King of Staten Island, but for U.S. workers that honorific is shared by two friends, Derrick Palmer and Christian Smalls, who did the unimaginable: take on Amazon and win. They are behind the first labor union at Amazon, organizing for better working conditions and benefits. Is this a…