AI profile: Arch bridges a gap

The credit crunch has opened up opportunities for hedge fund managers with lending capabilities. Helen Avery talks to Arch’s Stephen Decani about his firm’s asset-based lending activities.

Stephen Decani, Arch

“We had already taken the view back in 2006 that we were not comfortable with the CDO market, and so we had short exposure”
Stephen Decani, Arch

Asset-based lending is becoming of increasing interest to hedge funds managers as a source of alpha, and to investors. Swiss fund of hedge funds Nara Capital, for example, launched a pure asset-based lending fund of hedge funds at the end of 2007. And, according to a survey compiled by the Commercial Finance Association, the US asset-based lending industry has been growing at double-digit rates annually.

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