Texas Alternatives Conference 2024 - Sponsors
February 27, 2024
Conference
Four Seasons Hotel
Austin, TX
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Sponsors
PLATINUM Partners
Anchorage Capital Advisors, L.L.C. (“Anchorage”) is a $22.5 billion credit-oriented investment firm that combines bottom-up fundamental research with active trading to capture investment opportunities in both the U.S. and Europe. Led by Co-CIOs and Managing Principals Yale Baron and Thibault Gournay, Anchorage focuses on a wide range of assets across the credit spectrum and throughout a company’s capital structure, including performing loans and bonds, distressed debt, special situations, and structured credit.
Axonic Capital is a $4.5 billion commercial real estate (“CRE”) and structured credit asset manager, headquartered in New York City. Our business model is providing niche opportunistic investment solutions from an experienced team with expertise in creating unique advantages through our horizontally integrated platform. Over the course of our 14-year track record the firm has made over $25 billion in CRE investments to date.
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.
Our purpose is creating opportunities to rise. We support sustainable and inclusive growth by connecting the ideas, innovations and aspirations of our customers and clients to the capital that can bring them to life. For over 325 years we have funded progress, and today we remain committed to helping make our world more sustainable, more inclusive and more connected.
Learn more at https://www.cib.barclays/
Bayview is a $17.4 billion, 1,475-person asset manager with over 30 years of experience investing in mortgage and consumer credit. Bayview’s expertise spans every aspect of the credit value chain, including the origination and acquisition of whole loans, special servicing, securitizations, securities trading, special situations investing, and the acquisition, management, and origination of MSRs.
Biospring Partners is a growth equity firm investing at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Biospring leverages its deep expertise to support B2B pharmaceutical services, tools, and software companies driving innovation across the life sciences industry.
Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.
Citi’s integrated business supports clients from pre-trade to execution and post-trade. Citi Equities provides insights, a broad range of products and services and round-the-clock market access for equities and equity-linked instruments, including tailored solutions to accommodate more complex trading strategies. Citi Prime Finance offers prime brokerage, securities lending and financing, agency securities lending, and global capital introductions to help hedge funds manage risk, improve efficiency and achieve their long-term business objectives. Citi Futures, Clearing and Collateral Management delivers futures execution, OTC derivatives clearing, derivatives intermediation and collateral management services to support operational, asset optimization and liquidity needs.
Industry recognition includes: https://careers.citigroup.com/working-at-citi/awards-recognition.html
https://www.citigroup.com/citi/news/2021/211123a.htm
Derivatives House and Interest Rate Derivatives House of the Year from IFR (2020).
HonTe Advisors is a San Francisco Bay Area based, discretionary global macro investment firm that focuses on long-horizon, thematic, multi-asset class investing across developed and emerging markets. Our objective is to construct a superior portfolio, which creates a revenue stream uncorrelated to traditional assets. We employ formal logic in conjunction with a rule-based trade selection process to capitalize on the relative mis-pricing of global assets.
Napier Park is a $20bn alternative asset management firm specializing in alternative credit investments. The firm distinguishes itself for its historically strong track record, sophisticated investment process, institutional-quality infrastructure, and long-term institutional investor capital commitments. The senior team has spent more than a decade developing the firm to take advantage of the post-crisis market environment characterized by intermittent liquidity and volatility driven by regulatory change. Investors turn to Napier Park for investment solutions that have the potential to offer attractive absolute returns while seeking to structurally mitigate downside risk.
Sidley has a premier, global practice in structuring and advising investment funds and advisers. The Investment Funds practice group serves virtually every type of investment fund and investment manager, as well as many other market participants. The group has approximately 130 corporate, securities and derivatives lawyers dedicated to investment funds, investment management and derivatives work worldwide.
Orchard Global is a private and alternative credit manager with approximately US$8bn in AUM. Orchard Global's specialization is complex, higher barrier to entry, performing credit offering transformational solutions to banks, asset managers, non-sponsor borrowers, and others. We started in the 2008 financial crisis, bringing third party capital to bank regulatory capital solutions. Developing a reputation for certainty of execution among the GSIBs, those same banks turn to Orchard Global as a trusted partner to provide capital solutions to their non-sponsor borrower clients. From there, Orchard Global expanded into CLO equity and debt trading and litigation finance, leveraging its expertise in credit analysis and structuring. Orchard Global later added credit derivatives trading to capture dislocations and perceived value in U.S. and European credit markets and enhance the solutions it offers its clients and counterparties. Today, more than 130 people at Orchard Global work from six global offices. www.orchardglobal.com
Sidley has a premier, global practice in structuring and advising investment funds and advisers. The Investment Funds practice group serves virtually every type of investment fund and investment manager, as well as many other market participants. The group has approximately 130 corporate, securities and derivatives lawyers dedicated to investment funds, investment management and derivatives work worldwide.
Through TPG’s family office roots, entrepreneurial heritage, and Texas and West Coast base, we have developed a differentiated approach to alternative investments based on innovation, organic growth, and a culture of openness and collaboration. We have developed a distinct position in the industry, with a broadly diversified set of investment strategies, including private equity, impact, credit, real estate, and market solutions. The TPG Angleo Gordon platform has nearly 35 years of experience investing across a broad range of credit and real estate strategies. We seek alternative investment opportunities, investing in inefficient markets, that will deliver consistent absolute returns for clients. Our investment approach relies on disciplined portfolio construction backed by rigorous research and a strong focus on capital preservation.
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Silver Sponsors
Citadel is one of the world’s leading alternative investment managers. Citadel manages the capital of prominent investors from around the world including retirement programs, endowments and foundations, and sovereign wealth funds. For more information, visit Citadel.com.
LGT Capital Partners is a global alternatives asset manager with over $100 billion of assets under management and 700 institutional clients around the world. They are served by over 800 professionals who combine global know-how with specialist local investment expertise across a wide range of investment programs focusing on private markets, diversifying strategies, and multi-alternatives. Headquartered in Pfaeffikon (SZ), Switzerland, the firm has 15 offices globally with investment hubs in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Lucid Management and Capital Partners LP (Lucid) is a specialized fixed income asset manager focused on the short duration and core cash markets. Lucid has a differentiated strategy that generates significant excess returns with a 100% capital preservation and stable value objective. Founded in 2017 by a highly experienced and Management Team and Board, the firm provides scalable solutions for leading US institutional investors. As of February 2024, the Firm’s AUM stands at $4.4B.
Offering equity and credit investment solutions, Polen Capital is a global investment firm managing approximately $66 billion in assets (as of December 31, 2023) for institutions, financial advisors, and individuals seeking high-quality, active, concentrated strategies built for the long term. Polen has four autonomous investment teams, Large Company Growth, Small Company Growth, Emerging Markets Growth, and Credit, with offices in Boca Raton, Fla., Boston, London, and Hong Kong. Since 1989, Polen has built a distinctive culture and is committed to being a firm of opportunity, attracting and developing exceptional professionals aligned with its mission of preserving and growing clients’ assets to protect their present and enable their future. For more information, visit www.polencapital.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
For more information regarding sponsorship, please contact Amy D’Annunzio at conferences@MFAalts.org.
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