Opalesque Big Alpha: An Introduction to Ironshield Capital Management

David Nazar
Founder & CIO
April 19, 2024
9:00 am

David Nazar introduces Ironshield in the Opalesque Big Alpha series, outlining its European credit focus and crisis-driven opportunity set.

In this video, Ironshield Capital Management’s Founder, Managing Partner and CIO, David Nazar introduces the firm as part of the Opalesque Big Alpha series. He outlines Ironshield’s position as a European specialist credit investment manager, with a focus on high yield, leveraged loans and stressed and distressed situations.

He explains how this focus has defined Ironshield since its founding in 2007, just prior to the global financial crisis, and how navigating periods of dislocation has shaped the firm’s investment approach. This philosophy underpins the firm’s Credit Opportunities and Distressed and Stressed Credit strategies.

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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.