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  Investment Process
Argo Group


  • Experience, knowledge and network in markets to identify dislocations and stress points

  • Breadth and quality of relationships (restructuring advisors, company managers, brokers, commercial banks, distressed sellers)
  • Focus on underlying business as well as financial structure

  • Credit analysis, enterprise value analysis (cash flows, liquidation values, comparables)

  • Study capital structure - indentures, debt covenants, credit agreements

  • Determine how value will be distributed

  • Research legal issues

  • Exit scenarios
  • Knowledge of flows, who owns the paper in question and impact on pricing

  • Translating the opportunity into the right instruments and trade construction

  • Development of relative value, arbitrag'e and directional
    positions based on research conclusions
  • Active monitoring and analysis of company developments (workout, company results, industry)

  • Regular review of existing positions

  • Disciplined exits