An interview with Fair Oaks Capital
An interview with Fair Oaks Capital New Active ETF issuer on Xetra
Fair Oaks Capital is a specialist corporate credit investment manager. Established in 2013 and operating from offices in London and New York, Fair Oaks specializes in collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) and secured loans.
What distinguishes your newly listed product and what advantage does it have?
Fair Oaks AAA CLO ETF is the investment industry’s first European-Domiciled CLO ETF, pioneering a diversified CLO portfolio in an actively managed ETF wrapper. Fair Oaks AAA CLO invests exclusively in AAA-rated CLOs, offering investors high credit quality floating-rate debt with minimal duration risk and an established resilience, with more than 25 years track record of no AAA-rated CLO credit losses and low correlation with other asset classes.
What distinguishes you from other ETF issuers?
Fair Oaks Capital is a specialist in CLO management, overseeing over $3 billion in assets focused on CLOs and corporate credit strategies. Our dedicated, award-winning team has extensive experience, having launched the industry’s first global CLO UCITS fund in 2016. The launch of our Fair Oaks AAA CLO ETF highlights our commitment to specialized investment solutions, offering active management. This specialization and hands-on experience differentiate Fair Oaks, as investors can be confident that our ETF is backed by a team that understands the nuances of CLOs and is fully equipped to manage the risks and opportunities in this sector.
Why did you choose Xetra?
Through launching the first European CLO ETF Fair Oaks hopes to enable a wide investor base efficient access to AAA-rated CLOs in an ETF wrapper for the first time. Given the attractiveness of the asset class, its new availability to a broader investor base in the ETF wrapper and as Xetra is the leading trading venue for ETFs in Europe, we believe our ETF has the potential to garner significant investor interest where distributed.