Interview Highlights: Bryan C. Krug of Artisan Partners on Investing Strategies

October 20, 2016

Bryan C. Krug discusses Artisan Partners, a firm that focuses on providing high-value-added strategies to sophisticated investors. Mr. Krug’s investment philosophy is based on core beliefs about the non-investment-grade credit market. He believes the market has dislocations that can be exploited and the best risk-adjusted returns can be found through fundamental credit analysis. When analyzing a potential investment, Mr. Krug focuses on four pillars: business quality, financial strength and flexibility, downside analysis and value identification, which looks at credit improvement potential, relative value and catalysts for business improvement. Using a repeatable, high-conviction process, Mr. Krug constructs his portfolio by investing according to three risk profiles: core, spread tightening and opportunistic.

Full interview available here.