Brian DeChesare

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Distressed debt investing offers advantages over other hedge fund strategies , but the marketing often oversells the benefits. These percentages mean the market is pricing in a high likelihood of creditor losses in a restructuring or bankruptcy. “Distressed assets offer non-correlated returns, similar to global macro.”

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Valutico

OCTOBER 20, 2022

But here, we use what interest we could get from an alternative investment in the market, called the Market Rate. Discount Factor (using Market Rate: r=10%). But first, a quick aside, which you can feel free to skip if you want to jump ahead: Why Do We Use the Market Rate to Calculate the Discount Factor? B = Beta. (Rm

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Brian DeChesare

JULY 27, 2022

Let’s say that Target has a bond with an 8% Yield to Maturity , i.e., you earn an internal rate of return (IRR) of 8% if you buy the bond at its current market price and hold it until maturity. The Walmart bond’s YTM is still 5%, so its market price is the same. So, you long the Target bond and short the Walmart bond.

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Brian DeChesare

MAY 24, 2023

Here’s how these strategies compare on the “trading vs. private equity” spectrum: The big selling point of the “middle” strategies – special situations and distressed – is that their returns are relatively uncorrelated with the overall market , and they have greater potential upside than something like merger arbitrage.

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Brian DeChesare

JUNE 29, 2022

And similar to long/short equity hedge funds , they target undervalued and misunderstood companies and profit when the rest of the market catches up. Long/short equity and credit hedge funds look for mispriced securities with potential catalysts that might change their market prices.

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Appraiser Newsroom

JUNE 4, 2024

He is the Director of the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project (privatecap.org) and Executive Director for the Pepperdine Most Fundable Companies competition (pepperdine.edu/mfc). His teaching and research interests include entrepreneurial finance, private capital markets, and entertainment finance.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Note that this framework applies for all businesses, from the smallest, privately owned businesses, where debt takes the form of bank loans and even credit card borrowing and equity is owner savings, the largest publicly traded companies, where debt can be in the form of corporate bonds and equity is shares held by public market investors.

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Brian DeChesare

AUGUST 10, 2022

Oil & Gas Investment Banking Definition: In oil & gas investment banking, professionals advise companies that search for, produce, store, transport, refine, and market energy on raising debt and equity and completing mergers and acquisitions. Also, there are few “independent” Downstream companies in major markets like the U.S.,

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