Overview
Elanus is an employee-owned, SEC-registered alternative asset manager established in 2010. The Firm’s DNA is rooted in the financial industry with extensive backgrounds in trading, structuring, and origination. We specialize in credit-oriented strategies across financial and insurance sectors. Our niche sector specialization provides in-depth understanding of capital structure and financial regulation. We are a market leader in providing financial solutions and capital to global banks and financial institutions.
Investment Philosophy
The firm seeks opportunities in less efficient markets and pursues assets at a discount to their intrinsic or potential value. We focus on higher credit quality investments and seniority in the capital structure as core principles. We prioritize capital preservation, cash flows, and diversification as we seek to deliver consistent performance throughout market cycles.
Our investment vehicles capitalize on short-term pricing dislocations and long-term structural arbitrage with flexible liquidity options.
Mission
While sourcing, analyzing and managing assets is our core daily function, our mission is to develop trusted, long-term relationships with our investor base. Fiduciary responsibility is the keystone of our business. While generating market-leading returns is our north star, building and deepening the trust our investors place in us is our ultimate destination.
10 Years of Alternative Credit Strategies
2011
GBO I LAUNCHED
$2bln commercial loan portfolio CRT
2012
GBO II LAUNCHED
$1.5bln large corporate loan portfolio CRT
2013
EXECUTED 3 CRT TRANSACTIONS
$11bln across trade finance, large corporate revolvers, and SME
2014
NO NEW INVESTMENTS
Did not deploy capital for 19 months given tighter spreads and sector concerns
2015
AVOIDED THE 2015 CREDIT CYCLE
With limited deployed capital, we avoided the 2015/16 credit cycle
2016
RESUMED INVESTING
As spreads widen, we re-entered the CRT market
2017
GBO III LAUNCHED
Executed our first direct lending transaction to a US Insurance Company
2018
EXECUTED 4 CRT TRANSACTIONS
$13.5bln across large corporate loans, SME, and First Commercial Real Estate
2019
GBO III CLOSED
GBO III closes with 11 investments and diversified exposure of 10,000+ loans
Looking ahead….
We executed a strategic corporate transaction with Man Group which closed in February 2022.