$6.0 B AUM
Capital Solutions
Demonstrated Track Record
Cross-platform Investment Capabilities
Less correlated with Traditional Debt & Equity Markets
Our Approach
Our integrated platform is focused on providing investors attractive, through-the-cycle risk-adjusted returns that are less correlated with traditional debt and equity markets. We pursue public and private market opportunities across the capital structure, with a focus on secured debt, seeking to exploit market inefficiencies.
Demystifying Capital Solutions Strategies
Michael Searles, Head of North America—Capital Solutions, explains why capital solutions strategies are garnering increased interest from institutional investors looking to diversify their private credit allocations and gain access to potentially uncorrelated returns.
Understanding the Breadth of Investment Opportunities in Capital Solutions
Capital solutions constitute an increasingly popular investment category that seeks to provide equity-like returns with less correlated market risk throughout the credit cycle.
Coastal Marinas: Partnering for Growth
Learn how Barings' Capital Solutions team creatively structured a financing package to support the growth of Coastal Marinas, a dominant player in the owning and operating of marinas in the Charleston, SC market.
2008
Track record inception
355
Global Investments
~3/4
of Portfolio in Secured Debt
Our Value Add
Our expertise and creative approach to structuring deals, coupled with our ability to deploy capital in liquid and illiquid opportunities, supports superior underwriting and execution. Leveraging our sourcing networks externally and across the Barings platform, we are able to access differentiated deal flow including control and non-control investments.
Figures as of September 30, 2024. AUM represents dedicated Capital Solutions accounts and investments made on behalf of Barings BDCs, but does not include assets managed in other cross-platform portfolios.
Senior Investment Team
Bryan High
Stuart Mathieson
Michael Searles
JM Chadonic
W. F. (Rooney) deButts
Tom Kilpatrick
