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London, November 30, 2022. In the article “Times are getting “volatile”” by Detlef Fechtner, which appeared today in the German daily newspaper Börsen-Zeitung, Robus Capital is quoted. “Tailwind restructuring is over,” says Andreas Jaufer, managing partner at asset management company Robus. After the environment in the past 12 years had facilitated the financial restructuring of company balance sheets, the pressure is now increasing from all sides. Banks and financiers on the one hand and management and shareholders on the other have less time to fight the crisis, he said, because financing conditions are stricter. He expects “many difficult discussions about fresh money,” the portfolio manager predicted – especially in the retail sector and among automotive suppliers. Read the full article at Börsen-Zeitung.

London, July 18, 2022. Robus Capital, an investor specializing in mid-market credit issues from Europe, expects credit markets to become increasingly choppy, even if they are not currently pricing in any major defaults. “After more than twelve favorable years, including the past two Covid years, the tipping point in credit markets has arrived. The pressure is mounting, and troubled companies will hardly be able to hold out for long,” expects Mark Hoffmann, Portfolio Manager at Robus Capital. Especially non-investment-grade European credit issuers can quickly run into liquidity problems due to interrupted supply chains, galloping inflation and energy security problems. The full Press Release can be found here.

London, August 08, 2022. Robus Capital, Germany’s leading institutional asset manager specializing in publicly traded bonds and private corporate loans, sees great opportunities for itself in the interest rate turnaround. “Since Robus was founded more than 10 years ago, we have not observed such an interesting investment environment for our value-oriented investment strategy as in this year 2022,” says Mark Hoffmann, Chief Investment Officer of Robus Capital. The full Press Release can be found here.

London, April 5, 2022. In its tenth year since launching the Robus Credit Opportunities Fund (“RCOF”), the London and Frankfurt based credit investor Robus Capital manages more than €1 billion in a total of five funds for the first time. Robus Capital’s focus is on investing in credit instruments of medium-sized companies. “By specializing in the corporate debt segment at an early stage, we were able to develop an attractive offering that addresses the needs of institutional investors for predictable interest income and of medium-sized companies for reliable financing partners,” says Dieter Kaiser, Managing Director at Robus Capital. “We are increasingly using our experience and knowledge as an investor in all types of debt instruments as a direct lending partner.” You can access the Press relase here.