Approach

Our Investment Philosophy

The cornerstone of our investment philosophy is to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for our investors through rigorous due diligence at the industry, company and individual security levels. We seek to maximize expected, not potential, return through fundamentals-driven, bottom-up security selection that leverages the depth and experience of our investment team.

A Dynamic Approach to Credit Investing

Bain Capital Credit’s teams are structured into a network that enables us to respond to varied investment opportunities, regardless of region, industry, company size, or capital structure position, increasing the breadth of our pipeline. Our investment professionals are organized into teams of specialists based on either industry type or product type, which we believe enables us to field the optimal team to evaluate every deal.

Liquid and Multi-Asset Credit (MAC)
Liquid and Multi-Asset Credit (MAC)

Our Liquid Credit strategy takes a deep fundamental approach to credit investing while overlaying a top-down asset allocation framework. We are benchmark agnostic across our strategies, seeking to identify relative value opportunities across sector, geography, industry, and capital structure.

CLOs and Structured Credit
CLOs and Structured Credit

With over 20 years of experience as an issuer, manager, and investor in CLOs and other structured products, we have the tenure, asset class expertise, and analytic tools required to strategically invest in these complex products.

Private Credit
Private Credit

Our Private Credit strategy focuses on providing complete financing solutions to businesses with EBITDA between $10 million and $150 million located in North America, Europe, and Australia/New Zealand. We enable Bain Capital Credit to diligence the most complex situations and provide flexible private capital solutions to middle-market businesses.

Industry Research Group
Industry Research Group

Our research group consists of multiple industry-focused teams located in the US and Europe. Each team is responsible for monitoring micro and macro trends within its focus area and for analyzing and selecting investments across the capital structure.

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) management

ESG factors are integrated into our investment process, from identifying appropriate investment opportunities through diligence to investment monitoring and asset management. Within Bain Capital Credit, we have a range of investment archetypes and varying degrees of control, with a greater ability to drive impact within companies where we have equity, directorships, or board observer rights. We leverage these positions to engage with companies on material ESG topics that align with our firm-wide core ESG commitments and advocate for further adoption of ESG best practices.

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