Alternative Investments: Trends & Opportunities

Q1. Could you start by giving us a brief overview of your professional background, particularly focusing on your expertise in the industry?

My professional path in Alternatives underwriting and asset management started in the post Lehman crisis, as credit analyst and restructuring manager of corporate non performing exposure within a tier 1 Italian bank. After the banking experience I joined a top notch Italian insurance company focusing on a broader universe of Alternative Fixed Income products, acting as principal investor and in asset manager management of several sub delegated mandates.

I developed further expertise as financial and real estate advisor on single name corporate restructuring and NPE and REOs portfolios and then tested myself as a manager of such investments on behalf of a credit servicer.

I am currently part of a private equity powerhouse that diversified also in private debt and commercial banking, such as working capital revolving facilities, and in charge of Special Situations investments.

Q2. Who are the main players in the Alternatives investments industry, and what market share or position does each represent?

Alternatives investment industry is segmented in sub industries such as:

• Private debt, led by Pan-European private equity funds that diversified their core equity…