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In this episode of Inside the Rope, host David Clark sits down with Craig Packer, Co-President of Blue Owl Capital – a $140 billion powerhouse in private lending. From humble beginnings to one of the fastest-growing alternative asset managers globally, Craig shares the inside story behind Blue Owl's explosive rise, its strategy of targeting multi-billion-dollar private equity-backed companies, and how the firm is redefining the landscape of direct lending.
What is private credit? Is it a new asset class? Are loans made by direct lenders different from bank loans? And what do potential investors in this asset class need to be aware of?In this episode of the Beyond Markets podcast, Fiona Kenyon, Head of Private Markets Advisors at Julius Baer talks to Craig Packer, Co-President and Head of Credit at Blue Owl Capital, to delve into these questions and many more besides. Private credit and direct lending are undoubtedly better suited to qualified or professional investors than to retail investors. Nevertheless, for those new to the asset class, the conversation here is an interesting introduction into how direct lending might fit into a wealth investor's portfolio.01:51 Introduction to topic and speakers02:50 What exactly is private credit and is it the same thing as direct lending?04:14 Are companies that borrow from direct lenders typically of poorer quality than those that get bank loans?06:17 What's the history of direct lending? Is this a new asset class or has it been around for a long time?07:56 Are the characteristics of direct loans very different from bank loans? 10:04 Why has direct lending grown so much in the past few years?14:04 Is this ‘the golden age of credit'? What are some of the risks of direct lending as an asset class? 16:01 Given the complexity, how can direct lending fit into a wealth investor's overall portfolio?Would you like to support this show? Please leave us a review and star rating on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
We ain't lion. Lion prides are some of the most unique social structures among terrestrial mammals. Listen to Emily show Clara the wonderful world of Africa's most iconic animal, the purpose of manes, and some female lions whose new look shocked scientists. Palmer, Meredith S., Natalia Borrego, and Craig Packer. (2023) "Social Strategies of the African Lion." Social Strategies of Carnivorous Mammalian Predators: Hunting and Surviving as Families. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 7-45.West, P. M., and Packer, C. (2002). Sexual selection, temperature, and the lion's mane. Science 297, 1339–1343.University of Minnesota (2024). Social Behaviour, Lion Research Center.Emily P. Mitchell, Adrian Tordiffe, Peter Caldwell, A case for ovarian transdifferentiation in six adult captive masculinized lionesses (Panthera leo) in South Africa: Pathological evidence, Theriogenology Wild, Volume 1, 2022, 100012, ISSN 2773-093X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.therwi.2022.100012Blanchard, D. Caroline. "Of lion manes and human beards: some unusual effects of the interaction between aggression and sociality." Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience 3 (2010): 945.Sogbohossou, E. A., Bauer, H., Loveridge, A., Funston, P. J., De Snoo, G. R., Sinsin, B., & De Iongh, H. H. (2014). Social structure of lions (Panthera leo) is affected by management in Pendjari Biosphere Reserve, Benin. PLoS One, 9(1), e84674.Gilfillan, G. D., McNutt, J. W., Vitale, J. D. T., Iongh, H. H., & Golabek, K. (2017). Rare observation of the existence and masculine behaviour of maned lionesses in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. African Journal of Ecology, 55(3), 383–385. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12360
Blue Owl has grown from a few ideas to an alternatives manager with over $150 billion in assets under management, including almost $80 billion in credit. Craig Packer, co-president and head of credit for Blue Owl, joined Bloomberg Intelligence's Noel Hebert and Sam Geier on the latest episode of Credit Crunch to talk about the evolution of the company, the direct lending market, why the asset class can continue to grow, and where Blue Owl sees opportunity. Credit Crunch is part of the FICC Focus podcast series.
Deals are getting larger, and those providing the loans are becoming more trusted and sophisticated. Craig Packer of Blue Owl Capital thinks these are reliable indicators that direct lending is set to expand and prosper. This episode is sponsored by Blue Owl Capital
Private credit is attracting plenty of new faces these days, but as we wrote in this week's Unicrunch newsletter, a handful of household names dominate fundraising and dealmaking.Craig Packer is one of those names. Owl Rock, the direct lending firm he co-founded back in 2016, was already a power player in direct lending before it merged with Dyal Capital in 2021 to create Blue Owl; he's now at the helm of one of private credit's biggest brands, as investor interest in the sector is going mainstream.For this week's episode of the podcast, our private credit editor David Brooke sat down with Craig to talk about deals, documentation, retail investors and the threat of a recession — and Blue Owl's efforts to dictate terms and keep lending standards tight.
In this episode of The Better Dental Life Podcast, Craig Packer, Clinical Development Principal for Gen4 Dental Partners, joins Mark to discuss how a hotel became Craig's dental practice; why he loves making people's smiles better; and how we can learn from our failures!
Our guest on the show today is Craig Packer, the CEO of Owl Rock Capital Corp, a 5.4 billion dollar market cap business development company that invests in middle market companies in the US. Craig is also the Chief Investment Officer of Owl Rock Capital, a New York-based direct lending platform with over 50 billion dollars of assets under management. This is the first business development company—or BDC for short—we have had on the podcast, so we wanted to make sure that we spent some time talking about BDCs in general and why Craig thinks they are an attractive niche within public markets. Additionally, in the discussion with Craig, we covered: What metrics investors should focus on when they are considering investing in a BDC; Owl Rock Capital's investment philosophy and risk management strategies; How Craig would expect the BDC's portfolio to perform in an economic downturn; What kind of investment opportunities Craig and his team are seeing at the moment; and The proper use of leverage within a BDC structure This episode of Compounders: The Anatomy of a Multibagger is sponsored by Tegus, an innovative and disruptive company that is changing the way professional investors work. For more information, please visit: https://www.tegus.co/ To get all the latest updates about the podcast, see who we'll have on next, as well as watch the video version of the pod, please follow us on twitter at @BenClaremon and subscribe to the SNN Network YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/snnwire. For more information about Cove Street Capital, please visit: https://covestreetcapital.com/ iTunes: https://apple.co/3xlUvPY Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jxkxLl Each new episode will be available every Tuesday morning on Apple, Spotify and all podcast streaming platforms. All opinions expressed by your hosts and the podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of Cove Street Capital or any affiliates. This podcast is for informational purposes only, it is not investment advice, and should not be relied upon for any investment decisions. We are not recommending the purchase or sale of any securities. The hosts and guests may be beneficial owners of the securities discussed. You should not assume that the securities discussed are or will be profitable.
Joining us today is Dr. Craig Packer, founder and director of the Lion Center and University of Minnesota/ Distinguished Mcknight University professor of Ecology Evolution and Biology. Dr. Packer shares results from his various studies and stories from his field research! To learn more about the Lion Center click here https://lioncenter.umn.edu/ Support us and make your friends jealous with some of our official merch! Take a look here https://just-animals-podcast.myspreadshop.com/ As always send us an email at justanimalspod@gmail.com Find us on Instagram @justanimalspod --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/justanimals/message
Joining us today is Dr. Craig Packer, founder and director of the Lion Center and University of Minnesota/ Distinguished Mcknight University professor of Ecology Evolution and Biology. Dr. Packer shares results from his various studies and stories from his field research! To learn more about the Lion Center click here https://lioncenter.umn.edu/ Support us and make your friends jealous with some of our official merch! Take a look here https://just-animals-podcast.myspreadshop.com/ As always send us an email at justanimalspod@gmail.com Find us on Instagram @justanimalspod --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/justanimals/message
Craig Packer, co-founder, Owl Rock Capital Partners and chief executive officer at Owl Rock Capital Corp., says that business-development companies held up well through the pandemic -- noting that his own company has been making loans at rates that are twice the cost of the financing -- with better-than-expected performance which should only get better as the economy re-opens. He also discusses the impact of interest rates and inflation and more on lending activity, and whether booming activities in SPACs -- special purpose acquisition companies -- is having any impact or fallout on BDCs.
Kevin Mahn, president and chief investment officer at Hennion and Walsh, says that valuations are stretched and growth could be hard to find, but a new period of economic expansion coupled with a shift in market leadership -- with small caps and more coming to the fore -- will create new investment leaders for investors to pursue. He sees the rebound from coronavirus leading into a multi-year economic expansion. continuing for several years. Also on the show, Adam Grimes of MarketLife Trading and Talon Advisors says that there are few troubling technical signals suggesting any reason to lose confidence in the current bull market, which he also expects to be a multi-year move. In The NAVigator segment, Craig Packer of Owl Rock Capital talks about business-development companies and how the BDC loan market has been impacted by the pandemic, and Ryan Jacob of the Jacob Funds talks technology stocks in the Market Call.
Craig Packer is a biologist and the former director of the Serengeti Lion Project. He has written for and appeared in National Geographic numerous times, and is the author of "Lions In The Balance."
In June 2015 the death of Cecil the lion was international news and a social media sensation. Yet trophy hunting of lions and other species is common in Africa. Foreigners pay big money to adorn their walls with heads and skins. Many find it abhorrent, angry that it exists at all. Hunters claim it is vital, providing money to fund conservation. With hunters claiming that a ban would be "catastrophic" for wildlife, what is the truth? Biologist professor Adam Hart explores this explosively controversial subject, talking to hunters, conservationists, lion experts and those opposed to hunting. Trophy hunting does work in places where regular tourists are few and far between. It works too in South Africa. Private ownership and fencing, which protects wildlife from people and people from wildlife, mean that hunting and tourism generate the cash needed to maintain huge numbers of animals. Wildlife thrives because "it pays it stays". But in Tanzania lion populations are rapidly declining. Craig Packer, a world expert on lions, says "it takes $2000 annually to maintain 1km2 of lion habitat; 300000km2 of hunting blocks need $600million. Trophy hunting pays $20million with 10-15% used for conservation". It's the only source of income but it is far too little, only slightly slowing the inevitable. Hunting pitches emotion against evidence and sentimentality against practicality. Adam's travels reveal a complex and sometimes unpalatable tale of economics, ecology and conservation with implications that affect everyone that cares about African wildlife. (Photo: A lion sitting on a rock)
Celebrated lion researcher and conservationist Craig Packer takes us into the complex, tooth-and-claw worlds of lion conservation and behavior in this September 30, 2015 event at Coffman Memorial Union at the University of Minnesota. The post Lions in the Balance: Man-Eaters, Manes, and Men with Guns appeared first on continuum | University of Minnesota Libraries.
Celebrated lion researcher and conservationist Craig Packer takes us into the complex, tooth-and-claw worlds of lion conservation and behavior in this September 30, 2015 event at Coffman Memorial Union at the University of Minnesota.
Show #96, Hour 1 | Guests: Amy Gotliffe, Director of Conservation, Oakland Zoo; Craig Packer, author: “Lions in the Balance: Man-Eaters, Manes, and Men with Guns,” University of Chicago Press, Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, and Director of the Lion Research Center at the University of Minnesot | Show Summary: The poaching of Zimbabwe’s lion king Cecil has prompted worldwide outrage and a new focus on the practice of trophy hunting. Does money from big-game sport hunters actually forward the cause of conservation? Is the controversy another nine-days wonder, or could it have lasting effect on hunting laws and practices? In Deep takes a long look at Cecil’s real legacy.
In this week's programme we report from India where John Aitchison revels in the sight of two tigers, who magnificent though they are, are now in effect in an island population, separated from the farmland that surrounds the Bandhavgarh National Park by an electric fence. Lion biologist Craig Packer from the University of Minnesota will be speaking to Monty about his observations in Tanzania where upward of 100 people a year are being killed by lions raiding villages. And David Macdonald, Professor of Wildlife Conservation at Oxford University, will be exploring this area of conflict with Monty in the Shared Planet studio.
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