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BERKELEY ASSET MANAGEMENT
Oppida Investments — Preliminary Introduction
November 2012
Private and Confidential
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Table of Contents
1
PROFILE OF THE INITIATIVE
2
PERFORMANCE
3
THE TEAM
APPENDIX 1 -TRADE EXAMPLES
APPENDIX 2 - THE OPPORTUNITY
APPENDIX 3 - POSITION OVERVIEW
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PROFILE OF THE INITIATIVE
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Strategy and Objectives
Fund
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• Approx. 20 core positions
• Primarily Western Europe and US
• Conservative approach to credit — biased
toward secured debt/top of the capital
structure, stable industries and low
absolute leverage
• Returns enhanced through event driven
approach
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Target Investments
Leveraged loans
High Yield bonds
Bridge loans
Revolving credit facilities
Mezzanine loans
Rescue financings
Investment Grade bonds
Bilateral loans
2nd lien loans
>
Target
Returns
Unlevered
L+10%
Levered*
L+15%
The fund is open to utilize
leverage if market
conditions and terms
appropriate
Maximum fund leverage
will be 1.5x equity
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Investment Strategy
CAPITAL PRESERVATION
► Key focus / starting point is capital preservation
► Analysis on —"how can we possibly lose principal"
► Strong bias towards secured lending / top of the capital structure
OVERLAYS:
RELATIVE VALUE
► Analysis of returns relative to other opportunities
— Capital structure relative value
— Industry peer relative value
— Book / "Apples to Oranges" comparison
EXCESS RETURNS DRIVEN BY:
•
Exploiting pricing inefficiencies that exist for non credit reasons
•
Event trade catalysts
•
Short term trading opportunities
► Often trades will contain more than one of the above components
•
Preferred trade is for mispriced security with catalyst / event to remedy mispricing
MARKET CONSIDERATIONS
► Macro market view — position book for next expected move in credit cycle
► Short term market expectations
PORTFOLIO WEIGHTED AVERAGE NET DEBT / EBITDA OF 2.7X'
75% OF PORTFOLIO INVESTED IN ASSETS AT THE TOP OF THE CAPITAL STRUCTURE'
As of May 2012
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Risk Limits
PORTFOLIO CONCENTRATION
► Single issuer exposure limit of 20% of equity
► Tranche limit — less than 35% of individual tranche
INDEPENDENT THIRD PARTY ADMINISTRATOR & CUSTODIAN
► Daiwa acts as independent third party administrator and custodian for Oppida assets
► All cash positions reconciled with Daiwa on daily basis
► All positions and NAV reconciled with Daiwa on a monthly basis
LEVERAGE
► During 2010 — leverage utilised in 2 months of year
•
Peak leverage utilised in 2010 = < 0.1x equity
► During 2011— leverage utilized in 7 months of year
•
Peak leverage utilised in 2011 = < 0.2x equity
► August 2012 — utilizing leverage equating to c. 0.3x equity
CURRENCY AND INTEREST RATE RISK
► Oppida's strategy is to hedge currency exposure back into Euro's and therefore takes minimal currency risk
► Oppida monitors interest rate risk (interest rate risk defined as fixed income instruments with a yield to maturity of < 10%)
Oppida may hedge interest rate risk
► The chart below highlights the quantum of currency and interest rate risk at month end over the last 4 months
Date
Currency Exposure
Fixed interest rate exposure'
Value
%of
NAV
Value
% of Holdings
Jul 12
108,342
0.1%
24,302,629
22.2%
Aug 12
1.223,395
1.3%
30,201,073
28.4%
Sep 12
1,244,849
1.3%
36,368,284
36.3%
Oct 12
1,318,298
1.2%
44,712,000
40.0%
Fixed income securities with a yield to matu ivy lower than 10%
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Fund Terms
Administrator
Auditor
Investment Manager
Legal Advisor (Ireland)
Custodian
Subscriptions
Redemptions
Management Fee
Profit Allocation
Performance hurdle
Subscriptions Fee
Redemption Fee
Domicile
Fund Structure
Currency Class
Daiwa Securities (Dublin)
PWC
Berkeley Asset Management LLP
Dillon Eustace
Daiwa Securities
Monthly with 100,000 minimum
Quarterly with 3 months notice
1.5%
15%
1 month Euribor
None
2% if redeem within 12 months of subscription.
Ireland
Irish QIF with section 110 (securitization company) subsidiary
EUR, USD and GBP
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PERFORMANCE
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Fund Performance
► Monthly performance based on weighted average capital drawn, net of all fees and expenses
Month
% Return
% Cummulative
YTD return
Month
% Return
% Cummulative
YTD return
Month
% Return
% Cummulative
YTD return
Month
% Return
% Cummulative
YTD return
Jan-09
Feb-09
Mar-09
Apr-09
May-09
Jun-09
Jul-09
Aug-09
Sep-09
Oct-09
Nov-09
Dec-09
-
-
-
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-1.07%
0.23%
2.71%
1.91%
1.47%
2.74%
0.75%
-
-
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-0.85%
1.84%
3.78%
5.31%
8.20%
9.01%
-
-
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-
-
-1.07%
-0.85%
1.84%
3.78%
5.31%
8.20%
9.01%
Jan-10
Feb-10
Mar-10
Apr-10
May-10
Jun-10
Jul-10
Aug-10
Sep-10
Oct-I0
Nov-I0
Dec-10
1.11%
0.06%
2.38%
1.57%
-0.97%
-0.48%
1.71%
0.96%
1.35%
1.23%
0.92%
1.34%
10.22%
10.29%
12.91%
14.69%
13.58%
13.03%
14.97%
16.07%
17.64%
19.09%
20.18%
21.79%
1.11%
1.17%
3.58%
5.21%
4.19%
3.69%
5.47%
6.48%
7.92%
9.24%
10.25%
1172%
Jan-11
Feb-11
Mar-11
Apr-11
May-11
Jun-11
Jul-11
Aug-11
Sep-11
Oct-11
Nov-11
Dec-11
1.63%
1.65%
0.41%
1.11%
0.58%
-0.56%
0.13%
-3.43%
-0.89%
1.97%
-1.42%
0.85%
23.77%
25.81%
26.33%
27.72%
28.47%
27.75%
27.92%
23.54%
22.44%
24.85%
23.07%
24.13%
1.63%
3.30%
3.72%
4.87%
5.48%
4.90%
5.03%
1.43%
0.53%
2.51%
1.05%
1.91%
Jan-12
Feb-12
Mar-12
Apr-12
May-12
Jun-12
Jul-12
Aug-12
Sep-12
Oct-12
Nov-12
Dec-12
3.37%
2.74%
1.81%
0.59%
0.30%
0.86%
2.15%
2.53%
2.09%
1.94%
28.31%
31.82%
34.21%
35.01%
35.41%
36.58%
39.52%
43.05%
46.04%
48.87%
3.37%
6.20%
8.13%
8.77%
9.09%
10.03%
12.40%
15.24%
17.65% IBM
► The table above is gross of Irish corporation tax which is paid due to current structure
► Sharpe ratio over life of fund of 2.5
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Proven ability to predict trade takeout
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► The above chart highlights every trade where we have been repaid and compare the duration of the trade to both the
and our original estimate for trade duration
► At the time we place a trade, we prepare an investment consent memorandum. In the memorandum prepared at the
entry we detail our original estimate for trade duration based on various assumptions
legal maturity
time of trade
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Winners and Losers
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P. The above chart highlights the number of trades that have been either "winners" or "losers" for Oppida
• The high ratio of "winners" to "losers" demonstrates the high level of conviction we have prior to placing a trade
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Winners and Losers (cont'd)
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► The above chart details the quantum of P&L earned in each category
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THE TEAM
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Team Skillset
SUPERIOR CREDIT SKILLS
► Combined credit experience of 30 years
► Rigorous, "bottom up" fundamental analysis applied to each credit
•
Asset valuation and cash flow forecasting
► Core focus — Relative Value and Capital Preservation
► Existing knowledge base of most non-investment grade credits in Europe
EXCELLENT SOURCING RELATIONSHIPS
► 10 years plus in Euro non-investment grade credit markets on buy side
•
Relationships with all sell-side banks across multiple trading desks
— Leverage Loan / High yield bonds / Special situations
► Large number of unique opportunities communicated to team on a monthly basis
•
Structuring advice solicited due to structuring experience / Oppida gets l st look at "blocks" coming out
STRUCTURING
► Structured non investment grade high yield bonds, bridge loans and leverage loans (combined Citigroup experience - 20 years)
► Experienced in negotiating with and understanding the differing objectives of:
•
CFOs
•
Financial Sponsors/Private Equity
•
Financing bankers
•
Bank steering committees
• Bondholder groups
► Structuring skills are key to event driven trades in corporate capital structures
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Team Bios
ARI EPSTEIN
Ari Epstein joined Coopers & Lybrand in 1996 after gaining a degree in Management Sciences at UMIST. He relocated to their
New York office in 1999 where he specialised in Financial Services. In 2000, he was hired by Salomon Brothers to join their High
Yield and Leverage Finance Capital Markets Group in London where he became Vice President with responsibility for originating
and structuring high yield bonds and leveraged loans for corporate clients and private equity firms. In 2005 he resigned from
Salomon Brothers (then Citigroup) and was hired by Millennium Capital Partners as a senior credit analyst responsible for
analysing and trading non-investment grade fixed income products. He became a partner in 2007. He resigned in July 2008 to join
Belvedere Investment Partners as a Partner and Portfolio Manager for Belvedere Credit Fund. He left Belvedere in March 2009
and together with Mervyn Hughes formed Berkeley Asset Management LLP to manage non-investment grade credit strategies.
WILLIAM MANSFIELD
William Mansfield received a BA in Economics from Harvard University in 1986 and an MBA from MIT in 1990. Post graduation
William joined Citigroup, where he worked in both the Structured Finance and High Yield Capital Markets group, relocating to
London in 1999 to help set up Citigroup's European leverage finance division. William left Citigroup in 2002 to join Cross Asset
Management as an analyst to assist in running a long/short non investment grade credit portfolio. In 2004 William left Cross to
manage a European long/short non investment grade credit portfolio for Satellite Asset Management. He then joined Millennium
Partners (a large US multi strategy hedge fund) in 2005 to assist in running their European long/short non investment grade
credit portfolio. In 2009 William left Millennium to join Ari Epstein at Berkeley Asset Management to assist in managing non
investment grade credit strategies.
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Team Bios (cont'd)
MERVYN HUGHES
Mervyn Hughes qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse after graduating in 1990 from Southampton
University with a degree in Business Economics and Accountancy. In 1994 he moved to Bermuda and joined International Fund
Administration where he helped build a new hedge fund administration business. In February 1997 he joined Park Place Capital,
where he was approached by Philip Newman and Michele Ragazzi to help set up Newman Ragazzi & Co Ltd. In January 1998 he
left Park Place and became a director and COO of Newman Ragazzi. After 9 years he helped merge the firm with Odey Asset
Management LLP where he worked for a short period, leaving in September 2007. During the summer of 2007 he was
approached to set up a new asset management business and in October 2007 he was a founding partner in Belvedere Investment
Partners LLP. Mervyn resigned from Belvedere Investment Partners LLP in March 2009 and together with An Epstein formed
Berkeley Asset Management LLP to run non-investment grade credit strategies.
PATRICK MORAN
Patrick Moran began his career at Threadneedle Asset Management, working within the Settlements and Valautions department
which covered a wide range of products across Retail, Institutional and Alternative funds. Having worked his way up to team
manager, Patrick left Threadneedle after 6 years to specialise in Alternative funds and has a further 6 years experience at Senior
Operations Manager level at Novator Partners, Frontier Investment Management and Matrix Group. Patrick has completed the
IOC and CertIM with the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.
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APPENDIX 1- TRADE EXAMPLES
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Trade Types
WE CAN NORMALLY SEGMENT TRADES INTO 3 "TYPES"
► Inefficient Segments of the Credit markets
•
Common Characteristics
— May have to do significant work to evaluate the credit
— Typically can't be priced off a screen or by reference to a CDS price
► Event Trades
► Utilise our sell side structuring expertise to predict events
•
Based on our understanding of:
— Corporate / CFO motivations
— Banker motivations
— Underlying credit documents
► Short term trades — yield to call paper
•
Small downside risk / measurable downside risk
•
Often minimal capital required / high IRR's
CORE THEMES
► Focus on seniority in the capital structure
•
Limited downside
► Purchase cheap optionality through event prediction
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Inefficient Segments of Credit Markets - Examples
Opportunity
Rationale
Trade Examples
Situations which fall between 2
•
EM investors don't like credit risk and HY investors don't
RDS / Cukurova (details
different investor bases
like EM sovereign risk
description overleaf)
•
IG investors forced to sell downgraded paper
Small bond offerings €100 - 300
•
Benchmark size is typically E 300+ million today
Fage
million
•
Large funds require minimum E 25 mm hold positions
Super senior RCFs and/or very low
•
Often unfunded
NXP/ Prosieben (detailed
leverage debt tranches
•
Misrated by Rating Agencies
description overleaf)
Orphan transactions (bank stopped
•
Low liquidity
trading/researching)
•
No research coverage
Small secondary market trades (€5 -
•
Too small for large funds
Cukorova / Parmalat
15 million)
•
Too much work for smaller funds
i n time issuer (especially 1st time for
a given industry sector)
•
Target investor base not familiar with credit history
InterXion / Lowell
US companies issuing in Europe (and
•
Target investor base not familiar with credit history
Fage
European companies issuing in US)
Misrated/unrated debt
•
Ratings driven investors have limited capacity for unrated
or lowly rated debt
Petrojack / Sevan
Liquidating hedge funds
•
Forced sellers of small tranches of illiquid paper
Parmalat
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Prosieben
P. We purchased €7.5m of Prosieben revolving credit facility ("RCF") in January 2012 at a price of 82 to yield 10.22% to maturity.
• The revolving credit facility is undrawn and we posted 100% collateral — the 10.2% includes the collateral
P. The RCF is the first maturity in the capital structure maturing in July 2014 (30 months from purchase)
► Prosieben is the largest free to air broadcaster in Germany generating 2011 revenues and EBITDA of c. €2.75bn and €850m
respectively
P. Net leverage at Prosieben is 2.5x EBITDA. Leverage is made up of:
• €2.3bn of term loans
• €520m of cash
• Undrawn RCF of €568m (which we hold)
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Cukurova
► We purchased $5m of l st lien loans issued by a subsidiary of the Cukurova Group AS on Jan 6th 2010 from JPMorgan at a price
of 91 to yield 17.4%.
► Original size of loan was $1.5bn, due to amortizations there is c. $611m of the loan currently outstanding.
► The loan pays a coupon of L+800bp and matures in 3 installments on May 10 / May 11 / May 12.
► The loan is collateralised by:
• $1.5bn held in cash by JPMorgan (security trustee) OR in the event current lawsuits get resolved, shares in a holding
company of Turkcell worth $2.3bn
Cukurova indirectly holds 13.75% of Turkcell —Turkcell has a market capitalization of $16.5bn
— NB Turkcell has no net leverage (net cash of $1.4bn) which is unusual for a mobile operator. Net cash position
heavily defends share price at lower levels
Alfa Telecom originally lent Cukurova money against Turkcell shares. In an attempt to seize the Turkcell shares, Alfa
Telecom called a default. JPMorgan raised this loan to refinance the Alfa loan, but Alfa stated they did not want to
receive payment and instead demanded the shares their loan was secured on. While the dispute is ongoing the loan
proceeds $1.5bn remains in escrow with JPMorgan in London
• Cukurova corporate guarantee
• Security interest in other non quoted assets of Cukurova — (worth $1-2bn per Cukurova estimates)
• Personal guarantee from Mr Mehmet Karamehmet — Chairman of Cukurova and #224 in the Forbes list of wealthiest
individuals in the world for 2009 (down from 29th in 2000)
► Recent developments:
•
In April 2010, Mr Karamehmet was found guilty by a Turkish court of instructing a bank he owned in 2002 to make loans to
one of his portfolio companies—JPMorgan believe this could be an event of default and are investigating. In an event of
default lenders would have the possibility of early repayment from the collateral account
• In May 2010, Cukurova announced that they would be repaying the facilities in full on May 25th 2010.
• The IRR on this trade equated to 41%
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Event Trades - Examples
Event
Rationale
Trade Examples
Early refinancing / retirement of
•
Loans / bonds do not run to maturity
Parmalat (detailed
existing tranches
•
CFO's often incentivized to "play it safe"
description o✓erleaf) / Taylor
•
Terming out amortizations with long term covenant lite
debt attractive
Wimpey / Sevan
•
Capital structure considerations
Sale of company
•
Debt / parts of debt structure refinanced on sale
Tommy Hilfiger /
Cognis
Acquisitions
•
Debt structure may need to be refinanced to allow for
game-changing acquisition
IPO
•
Debt / parts of debt structure refinanced on IPO
Amadeus / InterXion
•
IPO deleveraging leads to spread compression
•
Public market valuation often leads to spread
compression through validation of EV
Amendments
•
Fees paid on amendments enhance IRR
Amadeus / Wind
Covenant breaches / default
•
Default may speed up recovery of par
Petrojack
Significant variance in forecast
•
Market may not have done necessary in depth analysis
Fage
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Parmalat Canada Private Placement Notes
► Parmalat Canada is Canada's 2nd largest milk producer, 3'd largest yogurt producer and 1st largest butter producer
► Parmalat Canada is owned by Parmalat Italy
• Parmalat Italy has net cash of €1.1bn and EBITDA of €365m
► Parmalat Canada never went insolvent at the time Parmalat Italy experienced its issues in 2003-2004
• Parmalat Canada has revenues and EBITDA of C$ 2.2 bn and CS 192m respectively
► Parmalat Canada has C$ 233m of 1st lien bank debt and C$ 65m of subordinated private placement notes
► Net leverage through the secured bank debt is 0.9x and through the private placement notes 1.3x
► The notes mature in 2010 and 2012 while the bank debt matures in 2011
• Coupon of 5%
► We purchased c. $9m of the private placement notes split between the 2010 tranche and the 2012 tranche at an average
weighted price of 92
• Spread to maturity equated to c. 940bp
► Our rationale for purchasing the notes was based on the following 2 considerations:
• The low leverage through the subordinated private placement notes
• The bank debt maturity in 2011
— We did not expect the company to refinance its existing bank debt without refinancing all of the private placement
notes
— We did not expect the company to wait till 2011 to refinance its bank debt and estimated the company would refinance
its bank debt in 2010
► In the end all private placement notes were repaid on December 30th 2009
► The IRR on this trade was in excess of 100%
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Short term / Trade opportunities - Examples
Description
Opportunity
Trade Examples
Called paper
•
Loans / bonds do not run to maturity
Unity Media (detailed
•
CFO's often incentivized to "play it safe"
description overleaf)
•
Terming out amortizations with long term covenant lite
debt attractive
•
Capital structure considerations
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UnityMedia FRN's
► Unity Media is a German cable TV company recently acquired by Liberty Media
• Revenues and EBITDA of €920m and €430m respectively
• Pre-acquisition the capital structure was comprised of l st lien leverage and total leverage of 2.2x and 4.5x, respectively
• The 1st lien leverage was structured as Secured Floating Rate Notes (FRNs) with a rating of BB+ / Ba3 and a coupon of
L+287.5bp
► Liberty Media announced the acquisition in November 2009 for €3.5bn and in the same week Unity Media raised €2.6bn of new
high yield notes to pay for the purchase. The remaining €900m was funded by a new convertible bond issued by Liberty Media in
November 2009 and cash on balance sheet.
► Pending EU/German approval of the transaction both the "old" and "new" debt of Unity Media were outstanding at the same
time with the new debt held in escrow to be used to repay in full the old debt upon closing of the acquisition.
• Regulatory approval could take anywhere from 2 months to 1 year depending on the exact type of regulatory review although
there was little doubt that approval would ultimately be granted as Liberty Media has no other Cable/ TV assets in Germany
• Upon transaction closing, all existing debt would be called at current call price (for the 1st lien FRNs this price was 100)
► On 25 January the EU announced that it had granted regulatory approval for the acquisition
• Post announcement we were able to purchase €2.865m of the FRN's at 99.5. Given our assumption that the transaction
would close in a matter of days (and the normal 30 day notice period for a call), our IRR on the trade equated to c. L+900
► On 28 January (3 days after receiving regulatory approval), Liberty Media closed the acquisition and Unity Media simultaneously
issued an irrevocable 30 day call notice for all their bonds (including the FRNs).
• Post this irrevocable call we were able to purchase a further €2m at a price of 99.75. The IRR on this trade equates to
L+600bp
► Given that (a) at the time we purchased the FRN's there were no barriers to the acquisition closing, and (b) the funds to repay
the outstanding bonds were held in escrow — we viewed both trades as essentially "riskless"
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APPENDIX 2 - THE OPPORTUNITY
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Attractive Non-Investment Grade Corporate Credit Market
New
Factors
this
Cycle
Stressed
Banking
Sector
CLO
Market
Weakness
Increased
capital
equirements
Smaller
hold
ositions
Limited
Securitization
Market
Forecast less
than3% for
2012
Declining
Default Rates
•
Less Debt/More Equity
Higher Cost Debt
Slower Growth
Lower Equity Valuations
Attractive
Opportunities in
Non-Investment Grade
Credit Market
Amend and
Extend
Secured Bond
Issues
Booming
Refinance
Market
High
Unemploymen
Higher
taxes
Budget
deficits
Lower Leverage
Multiples
IPOs
Free Cash Flow
Corporate
Deleveraging
Normal Credit Cycle Effects
Weak
Economic
Recovery
Sovereign
Volatility
Increased
Equity
Contribution
Conservative
New Issue
Market
Macro
Factors
this
Cycle
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Position Overview — May 2012
► The following table details each of our positions and key statistics
Name
Rank
Net
Leverage
LTV
YTM
Expected
Yield
General Motors RCF
Super Senior
0.0 x
0%
14.30%
18.25%
Prosieben Opco RCF
1st lien
2.5 x
31%
8.50%
12.20%
PetroSaudi
1st lien
0.8 x
30%
14.40%
16.30%
Fage
Senior Unsecured
4.1 x
50%
11.80%
16.00%
Fage k
Senior Unsecured
4.1 x
50%
18.00%
24.20%
Numericable TL A UN
1st lien
5.2 x
75%
19.10%
23.10%
Numericable TL A EX
1st lien
5.2 x
75%
14.20%
16.20%
Numericable TL C
1st lien
5.2 x
75%
13.70%
16.10%
Travelex
Subordinated PIK Loan
1.8 x
18%
10.45%
16.20%
Lowell
1st lien
2.2 x
52%
11.60%
14.95%
Interxion
1st lien
1.6 x
16%
6.80%
5.50%
AVG Technologies
1st lien
1.0 x
14%
8.40%
12.40%
Global Rig
1st lien
3.8 x
55%
10.75%
11.70%
BPA Laboratories
1st lien
2.8 x
35%
13.10%
15.40%
Jasper
1st lien
4.0 x
75%
18.80%
24.80%
Affinity
1st lien
5.1 x
75%
10.40%
11.16%
Towergate
1st lien
3.8 x
40%
10.00%
16.50%
Henderson
Senior Unsecured
0.2 x
3%
6.30%
7.25%
Reynolds
1st lien
3.3 x
40%
6.50%
6.00%
Prosieben Holdco
Holdco 1st lien
4.8 x
60%
9.70%
13.10%
RDS
2nd lien
3.3 x
58%
9.60%
9.60%
Polkomtel
Senior Unsecured
3.9 x
68%
12.00%
13.55%
Avio
Mezzanine
4.0 x
44%
10.00%
14.00%
Europcar
2nd lien
3.7 x
87%
11.70%
16.00%
Clubcorp
2nd lien
4.6 x
60%
8.90%
9.40%
Chloe Marine
2nd lien
5.3 x
73%
10.80%
12.00%
Towergate
Senior Unsecured
6.3 x
65%
12.90%
17.10%
Matalan
Senior Unsecured
4.8 x
80%
21.90%
28.80%
weighted average
2.7 x
11.3%
14.2%
• Portfolio is expected to earn
an
unleveraged IRR of c.
14.2% on a static basis
• The
positions
that
the
portfolio is comprised of, have
a weighted average leverage
ratio of 2.7x net debt / EBITDA
• 75%
of
the
portfolio
is
invested in assets that sit at
the top of the capital structure
• EXPT
position
has
been
excluded
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