Credit

Onex Credit has a successful 19-year track record executing a disciplined approach to credit investing with a focus on capital preservation and strong risk adjusted returns through credit cycles.

We invest primarily in non-investment grade credit with strategies focused on both private and public credit investments. Our primary strategies include Leveraged Loans, High Yield Bonds, Opportunistic Credit and Structured Credit. By offering a variety of strategies in various credit asset classes, we believe we are able to capitalize on synergies across both the Onex credit and private equity platforms. At Onex Credit, we believe our sourcing capabilities and collective data intelligence help to better inform our investment decisions and dynamically manage our portfolios in varying market conditions. This method allows us to meet the diverse needs of institutional and high net worth investors and to tailor investing strategies to such needs.

We practice value-oriented investing, employing a rigorous bottom-up, fundamental and structural analysis of the underlying borrowers, coupled with active portfolio management to continually seek to optimize portfolio positioning.

With a robust investment team of 36 investment professionals, including 8 senior portfolio managers, we are able to research and invest in a diverse set of public and private alternative credit investments that provide various income and return options to our investors.

At June 30, 2020, the platform managed approximately $12.2 billion of assets across its various strategies, including $676 million of Onex shareholder capital.

 

Competitive Advantages

With a disciplined approach to investing and a focus on capital preservation, Onex Credit has earned investor confidence and grown rapidly. Our credit platform benefits from a deep and seasoned team with experience investing across multiple market cycles and economic environments. Onex Credit has access to vast industry expertise among Onex’ private equity professionals as well as Gluskin Sheff’s investment grade credit and public equity investment professionals, and enjoys a sharing of knowledge and experience among the three investment teams. With the resources of a large institution and an integrated platform, we believe our investment strategies benefit from robust sourcing options and an analytical edge.

In addition, Onex Credit enjoys the benefit of being part of a well-capitalized sponsor. Onex and the team are well-aligned as significant investors in all of our strategies.

 

Strategies

Our strategies target investments in leveraged loans, senior secured and unsecured high-yield bonds and structured credit investments (CLO’s) that offer a broad risk/return profile for our investor base. Across the firm, we offer our investors a variety of strategies that invest in diversified portfolios of credits throughout an issuer’s capital structure to meet their specific return objectives.

Leveraged Loans

  • COLLATERALIZED LOAN OBLIGATION STRATEGY

    Collateralized Loan Obligations (“CLOs”) are leveraged structured vehicles that hold a widely diversified asset portfolio funded through the issuance of long-term debt in a series of rated tranches of secured notes and equity. Onex launched its CLO platform in 2012 and has issued 23 CLOs as of June 30, 2020, of which three have been substantially realized.

  • PRIVATE CREDIT STRATEGY

    Senior secured loans and other loan investments in private equity sponsor-owned portfolio companies and, selectively, other corporate borrowers. Private Credit is a natural extension of Onex Credit’s business and takes advantage of the firm’s infrastructure, deep relationships and knowledge of the loan market.

  • SENIOR CREDIT STRATEGY

    A diversified long-only strategy, focused primarily on first-lien, senior secured loans employing a prudent leverage. This strategy seeks to generate attractive returns that outperform the Credit Suisse Leveraged Loan Index.

  • SENIOR FLOATING INCOME STRATEGY

    A diversified long-only, unlevered strategy, focused on first-lien, senior secured loans.

High-Yield Bonds

  • High Yield Strategy

    The High Yield Credit Strategy is focused primarily on investing in bonds that are rated below investment grade. This strategy seeks to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns that outperform the ICE BoAML US HY Index through a full credit cycle. The strategy aims to preserve capital by avoiding credit defaults and dampen volatility by dynamic positioning in response to market conditions.

Opportunistic Credit

  • ONEX CREDIT SOLUTIONS STRATEGY

    A flexible “all-weather” mandate that can tactically shift between secondary trading opportunities and private/originated transactions depending upon the market backdrop. This strategy is unconstrained by ratings, asset class or liquidity as it pursues attractive risk-adjusted returns. We seek to employ an active “drive-the-outcome” approach, rather than a passive value investing approach, while being focused on downside protection, upside optionality and an identifiable path to deliver value.

Structured Credit

  • ONEX STRUCTURED CREDIT STRATEGY

    We believe our integrated global credit platform is well positioned to invest in Structured Credit. We bring broad fundamental levered credit analysis in US & Europe, in-depth distressed credit capabilities, and strong structured credit analytics and sourcing capabilities to our Structured Credit investing. We seek to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns with some downside protection and current income (vehicle dependent) across the entire CLO capital structure from equity to investment grade notes. Target investment opportunities are CLOs, CBOs and related structured transactions.

 

Video Library

Watch Ronnie Jaber, Portfolio Manager and Head of Structured Credit, discuss three vital questions on investors’ minds in the Structured Credit market today.

How does structured credit fit into my existing portfolio?
What is different about this credit cycle and how can an opportunistic structured credit strategy succeed in this environment?
Have we missed the market opportunity in credit?