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 level. We seek to maximize expected, not potential, return through fundamentally-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 position in the capital structure, which increases the breadth of our pipeline. Our investment professionals are organized in 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

As an issuer, manager, and investor in CLOs and other structured products for over 20 years, our strategy has extensive experience in the CLO asset class, a complex sector requiring specific expertise and analytical tools in order to invest.

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

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Management

ESG factors are integrated in our investment process, from the beginning of identifying appropriate investment opportunities through diligence and continuing with the monitoring of the investment and asset management. Within Bain Capital Credit, we have a range of investment archetypes and varying degrees of control, with 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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Leveraging ESG data strengthens our diligence and allows us to monitor how the ESG performance of our portfolios evolves over time.

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