Charlesbank's Hau on Playing to Your Strengths: Credit Crunch

16-06-2025

'We are sourcing, identifying misunderstood, high-quality middle market companies where we have a real edge...' Sandor Hau, Managing Director & President of Charlesbank, highlights. Sandor oversees the firm's opportunistic credit investment team and joined Bloomberg Intelligence's Noel Hebert on the latest episode of Credit Crunch to talk about cutting your teeth on the ground in the Asian financial crisis; missing on the dot.com boom; a private equity approach to credit investing; and tradeoffs between primary and secondary market investments. Sandor also spoke on valuing heritage, leveraging learnings across the firm and portfolio companies, and much more. The Credit Crunch podcast is part of BI's FICC Focus series. Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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