Kennedy Lewis Investment Management
Rizwan Akhter joined Kennedy Lewis in 2021 as part of the Kennedy Lewis controlled strategic partnership (“Generate Advisors”) with York Capital Management Global Advisors, LLC (“York”). He is a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager responsible for the CLOs managed by Generate Advisors. Prior to joining York in 2014, Mr. Akhter was a Portfolio Manager at DiMaio Ahmad Capital where he managed a number of funds and investment portfolios specializing in leveraged loans, high yield bonds and structured credit, and at Credit Suisse in fixed income and investment banking primarily as a Structured Trader within the credit derivatives business. Prior to that, Mr. Akhter worked at General Re Financial Products in fixed income derivatives structuring and at Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. as an investment banker.
Mr. Akhter earned a BA in Economics from Columbia College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Kennedy Lewis Investment Management
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Kennedy Lewis manages an opportunistic credit strategy that was formed to target idiosyncratic investments. Given the manager’s proprietary sourcing and closed-end fund structure, its investment strategy is agnostic to the market, geography and security type. The manager can be patient and nimble in its capital deployment. The manager’s investment approach is to construct a portfolio of “best ideas” that are expected to produce a minimum 1.5x MOIC over the life of each investment, while acutely focusing on capital preservation. This is achieved through portfolio diversity, security selection, structure and seniority.