SCI Magazine Summer 2018
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The <strong>SCI</strong> Interview<br />
Hip<br />
to be Square<br />
Chris Long, president and portfolio manager at<br />
Palmer Square Capital Management, discusses his<br />
firm and the credit markets it operates in<br />
Q: What is Palmer Square’s focus?<br />
A: At Palmer Square, we are focused on<br />
exploiting opportunities and finding relative<br />
value across corporate credit and structured<br />
credit. On the structured credit side, we spend<br />
a lot of time on CLOs, where we are both a<br />
manager and an investor. We also invest significantly<br />
in other types of ABS and MBS.<br />
I started the firm in June 2009, so we are<br />
already approaching our ninth birthday.<br />
Starting a business like Palmer Square from<br />
scratch, particularly coming out of the depths<br />
of the financial crisis, was a huge challenge but<br />
also a fantastic opportunity. At that point, we<br />
believed that credit was going to play a huge<br />
www.structuredcreditinvestor.com<br />
<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
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