The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I found this to be just a masterclass in everything you need to know about distressed credit investing, private credit, the role of the economy, the fed interest rates, inflation, bottoms up, credit picking, and how to manage a firm and a fund in light of just massive dislocations in your space, as well as the overall economy.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Ken Kencel of Churchill Asset Management, CEO, Founder, President. And then I left there and joined a number of my colleagues from Drexel and launched a business that as it turns out, was pretty much a carbon copy of the business we have today.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

So we could construct trades that had very, very low premiums to sell this volatility to, to basically join the consumer on their side of the trade, which is in essence buying insurance on, on the bonds that were exposed to these great risk. And so, so starting in 2009, we, we, there was no flip market. And this is proprietary data.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 20, 2022

You put a different number on the piece of paper, and that was the moment that I decided I wanted to start the firm. RITHOLTZ: So given those sorts of numbers, the pullbacks, recoveries, what sort of correlations are there with other types of debt, be it performing or distressed equities and other asset classes? KOENIGSBERGER: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

So, the Portfolio Solutions Group advises mainly institutional clients on all kinds of challenges that they have and thinking about the expected returns, portfolio construction, risk management, et cetera. And when we look back to the early days of that outperformance, there were a tiny fraction of the number of funds then.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

And I was kind of intrigued and so I said, can we discuss it, and he laid it out on a conference table and I said, what’s this number? And then I said, what’s this number down here, and he said, this is last year’s earnings. And that number was $160 million. BROWDER: I just gone the risk management committee.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And, and if we’re gonna be objective and put some numbers on it, as much as we all would prefer lower rates, we’ve had 18, 19 months of rising rates. So there are indicators to me, to all levels of the economy. trillion a crazy number. Barry Ritholtz: 00:14:20 [Speaker Changed] Right. Absolutely. What was that?

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