A Chicago-based investment manager is closing, according to industry sources. The firm’s fixed-income team is joining Mesirow Financial, while any plans for its equity business are unclear.
A Great Lakes pension plan has been scheduled to review a short-duration high-yield fixed-income manager search at an investment committee meeting scheduled for next week.
Institutional investors are eyeing distressed debt and opportunistic credit as key sources for investment opportunities as the global market grapples with a health crisis that has impacted every corner of the business world, leaving many companies in need of refinancing existing debt, restructuring or taking on new lines of credit to keep their lights on.