Accessing the High Return, Safety, & Diversification of Venture Debt – ARI – 6.13.22

Overview:
Title: Accessing the High Return, Safety, & Diversification of Venture Debt
Date: Monday, June 13, 2022
Time: 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Duration: 1 hour

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Summary:

On Demand Now

As the public markets continue to experience heavy losses, investors are desperately seeking solutions.

Zack Ellison, CFA, CAIA, Managing General Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Applied Real Intelligence (“A.R.I.”), a Los Angeles-based venture debt investment manager, will provide an overview of venture debt and why A.R.I.’s strategy is ideally suited for the volatile markets ahead.

Attributes of A.R.I.’s Venture Debt Opportunities Fund:

  • Unique and Differentiated Access to “Innovation” as an Asset Class
  • 15-20% Target Annual Return (12-15% from Debt, 3-5%+ from Equity)
  • Inflation-Hedged (Floating Rate Coupons + Equity Warrants)
  • Very Low Loss Rates (Less than 0.25% Annualized)
  • Quarterly Income of 3-4%
  • Minimal Volatility
  • Low Correlation to the Market

With inflation and interest rates both likely to continue increasing, it is not too late for investors to allocate to differentiated, inflation-hedged strategies, such as venture debt.

An alternative is to double down on public fixed income. However, it’s unlikely clients will be forgiving to allocators and advisors that make the same mistake twice!

Speaker:
Zack Ellison Zack Ellison, CFA, CAIA Managing General Partner & CIO Applied Real Intelligence (“A.R.I.”)

Zack Ellison, CFA, CAIA, is the Founder, Managing General Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of Applied Real Intelligence (“A.R.I.”). A.R.I. is a Los Angeles-based venture debt investment manager focused on underserved sectors and regions.

Previously, Mr. Ellison was Director of U.S. Public Fixed Income at Sun Life Financial, where he was responsible for corporate credit investing. Prior to Sun Life Financial, he was a corporate bond and credit default swap trader at Deutsche Bank. During the Global Financial Crisis, he was an investment banker where he successfully underwrote and managed a portfolio of leveraged loans at Scotia Bank. He began his financial career at Thomson (now Thomson Reuters) in the Capital Markets Intelligence group.

Currently, Mr. Ellison is a Board Member of CFA Society Los Angeles, a Board Member of CAIA Association’s SoCal Chapter, the West Coast Regional Director of the Hedge Fund Association (HFA), and a member of the Milken Institute’s Young Leaders Circle (YLC).

Mr. Ellison holds an MBA with concentrations in Analytic Finance and Economics from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business along with an MS in Risk Management from New York University’s Stern School of Business. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Swarthmore College while majoring in Economics. Additionally, he holds the CFA and CAIA designations and previously held FINRA Series 7, 55, and 63 licenses.