Research, Strategy and Culture at Ironshield

David Nazar
Founder & CIO
March 12, 2024
9:00 am

David Nazar explains how research and collaborative culture shape Ironshield’s strategy and investment process.

In this video, Ironshield Capital Management’s Founder, Managing Partner and CIO, David Nazar discusses how research and team culture underpin the firm’s investment process. He explains why Ironshield is an analysis-led strategy rather than a trading-led one, and why interrogating every layer of a credit thesis is essential.

He also highlights the importance of a collaborative culture in which team members are encouraged to test and challenge ideas. This discipline is central to the firm’s Credit Opportunities strategy and broader investment approach.

Credit Markets, David Nazar

David Nazar

David Nazar is Founder and Managing Partner, Chief Investment Officer at Ironshield Capital Management, where he leads the firm’s European corporate credit strategies. He oversees investment direction, portfolio construction and risk management across event-driven, stressed and high yield credit mandates. David works closely with the investment team to identify relative value opportunities across complex capital structures, with a disciplined focus on fundamental analysis, downside protection and compounding absolute returns across market cycles.