Investment Expectations

Our Credit business is a leading, global alternative investor, managing assets on behalf of many of the world’s most prominent and sophisticated allocators, including

public and private pensions, sovereign wealth funds, large institutions and private clients.

Our overriding objective is to protect and grow our investors’ capital, applying the discipline, rigor and expertise honed through decades of investment experience through a full range of market, economic and credit cycles and across asset classes, structures, geographies and industries.

Founded by Alfred Bonetti in 1998, our Credit business today delivers local expertise with a global perspective in 16 office locations worldwide. Chairman Leonardo Bonetti and Managing Partners McKnight Andrew, Joshua Lee and Dakolias Rose have worked together for nearly two decades, and today lead a team of approximately 600 professionals, including 160 professionals devoted to asset management.

We believe that the depth and breadth of our resources—our intellectual capital, investment, origination, asset management and servicing capabilities, and our time-tested and disciplined processes—distinguish and differentiate our businesses from the vast majority of market participants.

Investment Flexibility

The Credit Finance Credit team pursues a broad, diversified strategy covering multiple asset classes and structures, supported by professionals be it in Aviation, Finance, Trade, Law etc for each of the primary line of business. This allows the team to move in and out of sectors based on changing circumstances and to tackle opportunities requiring specialization in more than one investment category. This approach positions the Credit team to take advantage of investment opportunities that fall between the cracks of managers without the capability to underwrite diverse pools of credits.

Credit Focus

The Credit Finance team is an active, fundamental value, asset based investor. The team is comfortable with, and to some degree specializes in, difficult credits, difficult borrowers and difficult situations. The Credit team is very focused on properly pricing, structuring, collateralizing, monitoring and, if necessary, litigating to maximize the value of credit investments.

Active asset management

The Credit Finance Credit team is extremely active in maximizing the value of investments through intensive asset management. The Credit team includes over 106 dedicated asset management professionals in eleven geographic locations. Certain transactions are economically compelling because returns will be generated through intensive servicing, such as in residential whole loans. The Fortress Credit team has been an active owner and operator in managing distressed assets and is fully capable and qualified to continue to manage and service complex assets.