Dan Zwirn, Arena Investors - A Stoic Approach to Investing | #382

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

The Idea Farm

Business, Investing, Management

4.7 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In episode 382, we welcome our guest, Dan Zwirn, CEO and CIO of Arena Investors, a firm focused on global special situations and asset and credit investments. In today’s episode, we’re diving into the private credit market. Dan walks us through the process of sourcing private deals, the intricacies around structuring, and his framework for hedging currencies and commodities on a deal-by-deal basis. Then Dan explains why he thinks the CLO market is looking a little bubbly and the impact of COVID on his portfolio. Of course we talk about some examples of his recent deals, including one you’ll love hearing about with the AC Milan soccer club. ----- Follow Meb on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube For detailed show notes, click here To learn more about our funds and follow us, subscribe to our mailing list or visit us at cambriainvestments.com ----- Today’s episode is sponsored by The Idea Farm. The Idea Farm gives you access to over $100,000 worth of investing research, the kind usually read by only the world’s largest institutions, funds, and money managers. Join today and get access to quarterly CAPE ratios, an excel quant backtester and the entire research library. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mepp Favor Show, where the focus is on helping you grow and preserve your wealth.
0:11.0	Join us as we discuss the craft of investing and
0:13.5	uncover new and profitable ideas all to help you grow wealthier and wiser.
0:17.2	Better investing starts here.
0:18.8	Matt Baber is the co-founder and chief investment officer at Cambria Investment Management.
0:23.4	Did it industry regulations, he will not discuss any of Cambry's funds on this podcast.
0:27.1	All opinions expressed by podcast participants are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion
0:31.1	of Cambria Investment Management or its affiliates.
0:33.4	For more information, visit Cambria Investments.com.
0:36.4	What's up everybody?
0:40.4	We got a fun show today.
0:41.6	Our guest is the CEO and CIO of Arena Investors, a firm focused on
0:46.6	global special situations in asset and credit investments. In today's show, we're diving into the private credit market.
0:53.4	Our guest walks us through the process of sourcing private deals, everything from lending to fine art,
0:58.9	airplane financing, real estate, oil and gas, litigation finance, talk about the intricacies about structuring
1:05.0	and his framework for hedging currencies and commodities on a deal-by-deal basis.
1:09.0	He then explains what he thinks about the CLO market and how it's looking a little bubbly and the impact of COVID on his portfolio.
1:15.0	Of course we talk about some examples of recent deals, including one you'll love hearing about with the
1:18.9	AC Milan Soccer Club.
1:20.5	American Farmland is disappearing at an alarming rate. According to the USDA, the
1:26.5	U.S. has lost four acres of farmland per minute since 2000. That's a landmass
1:31.3	larger than the state of Florida, lost a real estate development and soil burnout.
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