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Frankfurt, September 15, 2015. Robus Capital spoke with Finance-Magazin about the Scandinavian bond market. In the article “The Nordic Mini-Bond Miracle” from Michael Hedstück (Issue September/October 2015, pages 31-35), Robus was cited as follows: “The Scandinavian bond market is very interesting for high-yield investors,” says Dieter Kaiser, Managing Director of Robus Capital, an asset management company that focuses on high-yield investments in mid-sized companies, but ignores most issues from the German Mittelstands-Bond market. This is for a good reason, as Kaiser mentions: “In comparison with the German Mittelstands-Bond market, Scandinavia has established a very large and well-functioning market with professional [bond] structures.” Source: Finance-Magazin (2015).

Frankfurt, March 06, 2015. Robus Capital was cited in an article in the Börsen-Zeitung on recommendations for a sustainable future of the bond market for mid-sized companies. The article by Christopher Kalbhenn is titled “End of Mittelstand Bonds” and appears in Issue 45 (06.03.2015) on page 8. The recommendations of Robus were summarized as follows: “Furthermore, additional measures should be taken to limit the risks of bond investors. Robus Capital, an asset management firm that specializes in high-yield debt capital, recommends an orientation towards the common standards of the international high-yield market. In addition to more frequent and higher quality reporting, Robus promotes the use of collateral, covenants, and guarantees from essentially affiliated companies. With good bond structuring, the risk of extreme losses in the case of restructuring should be limited.” Source: Börsen-Zeitung (2015). This article is only available in German.

Frankfurt, February 27, 2015. Robus Capital was interviewed in an article by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on the future of the German Mid-sized Corporate Bond Market. The article by Martin Hock is titled “Mittelstand Bonds are on their Way Out” and appeared in Issue 50 (28.03.2015) on page 30. Dieter Kaiser, Managing Director of Robus Capital, was cited as follows: “Kaiser asks […] above all for a new start for prospectuses. “We need covenants, collateral, guarantees,” he says. “It is a market for debt capital with high risks and is, therefore, a high-yield market. Individuals were orientating themselves with the prospectuses of Daimler and BASF, which was wrong from the beginning.” Source FAZ (2015). This article is only available in German.

Frankfurt, January 05, 2015. Robus Capital was interviewed in an article of the Handelsblatts for an opinion on the future of the mid-sized corporate bond market. The article by Michael Brächer is entitled “Pleiten, Pech und Peinliches” and appeared on page 60 and 61 of the weekend issue from the 2nd/3rd/4th of January 2015 (No. 1). Robus was cited as follows: “In order for mini-bonds to have a chance, something has to change. “We believe that the market deserves a future,” says Dieter Kaiser, Managing Director of the Frankfurt based asset management firm Robus. “However, underwriters need to learn from the mistakes of the past and new bond issues finally need to be professionally structured.” Kaiser is referring to standards that have long been common in international markets for high-yield bonds. He would like “collateral, covenants, and guarantees from all affiliated companies.” This way creditors receive significantly more in the event of insolvency than they have in the past.” Source: Handelsblatt (2015). This article is only available in German.