Strategy
Alternative Investments
The Driehaus alternatives team manages the Driehaus Active Income strategy and the Driehaus Event Driven strategy. The Active Income strategy is an unconstrained multi-asset credit strategy that seeks to deliver superior risk adjusted returns, relative to traditional credit fixed income indices. The strategy is led by portfolio managers Thomas McCauley and Yoav Sharon. The Event Driven strategy employs an array of trade strategies that seek to deliver superior risk adjusted returns, while exhibiting low correlation and less volatility relative to major asset classes/event driven indices. The strategy is led by portfolio managers Michael Caldwell, Thomas McCauley and Yoav Sharon.
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Driehaus Active Income Strategy
View DetailsDriehaus Active Income Strategy
The strategy seeks to provide current income & capital appreciation. Its objective is to generate absolute return with low volatility and limited correlation to the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Index.
Facts
- Strategy Inception Date
- May 01, 2009
- Total Strategy Assets
As of Apr 30, 2020
- $115M
Separately Managed Accounts
- Open to New Investors
- Yes
Funds
Driehaus Event Driven Strategy
View DetailsDriehaus Event Driven Strategy
The strategy seeks to provide superior risk adjusted returns with low correlations to major asset classes and lower volatility than the S&P 500 Index.
Facts
- Strategy Inception Date
- Feb 01, 2013
- Total Strategy Assets
As of Apr 30, 2020
- $396M
Separately Managed Accounts
- Open to New Investors
- Yes
Funds
Philosophy & Process
Active Income
We believe credit markets frequently exhibit price inefficiencies which provide consistent opportunities to generate compelling risk adjusted returns. The strategy seeks to exploit asymmetric risk/return profiles through the disciplined application of deep fundamental research. The strategy invests across the capital structure in both long and short positions. The portfolio managers increase the probability of consistent investment success by applying a framework that is built on the tenets of absolute return investing: value-driven decision making, understanding and opportunistically using all classes of securities, prudent deployment of capital, and emphasizing downside risk mitigation.
Event Driven
We believe attractive event-driven investments exist in the global equity and credit markets due to the highly idiosyncratic nature of event-driven situations. Traditional market participants are often unwilling or unable to navigate the capital structure, legal, and regulatory complexity of event driven situations and/or may have discomfort with binary outcomes. The strategy seeks to exploit these market inefficiencies by applying a highly specialized event driven investing framework which enables us to identify the most attractive risk adjusted return opportunity for a given situation.
Featured Commentary
Driehaus Event Driven April 2020 Commentary and Attribution
During the month of April financial markets partially recovered from the most volatile month on record and one of the swiftest and most severe re-pricing of risk assets experienced during the year’s first quarter.
Driehaus Active Income March 2020 Commentary and Attribution
The social, political and economic activity of the first quarter will be analyzed for many years to come. Based on what we know today, we believe the global economy is at the beginning of a severe contraction and the ramifications of this pandemic will haunt the US economy for years. That said, we find some solace that this bleak economic outlook is being counterpunched by unrelenting support from the Federal Reserve and US Treasury, and that comfort is bolstered by the fact that we entered the second quarter at attractive valuations across corporate credit.
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