Institutional Investors
Credit solutions for institutional investors, built on a consistent underwriting approach and active portfolio management.
How We Invest
A Consistent Approach Across Markets
Antares applies a bottom-up approach to credit investing, grounded in disciplined underwriting and active portfolio management. Our experience across private credit, liquid credit, and liquidity solutions informs how we assess risk, construct portfolios, and navigate market cycles.
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Disciplined, Bottom-Up Underwriting
A consistent approach driven by fundamental credit analysis and bottom-up asset selection.
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Selectivity Through Scale and Insight
Scale and long-standing relationships provide broad access, enabling selectivity in portfolio construction.
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Focus on Credit Quality and Downside Protection
We prioritize higher-quality investments with strong fundamentals and structural protections to manage risk.
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Active Management Across Market Cycles
Active portfolio management and ongoing monitoring seek to capitalize on market inefficiencies and deliver consistent, risk-adjusted returns.
The Antares Advantage
Scale
With approximately $90B in capital under management and administration, Antares brings the scale of a market leader to benefit our investors. Our platform provides access to a broad set of opportunities, which allows us to be selective and lead transactions with sponsors we know well.
30 years
Experience
Three decades of successful private credit investing across cycles informs how we underwrite risk and manage portfolios. Our experience is embedded in our process, from initial screening through active credit management.
Alignment
Backed by The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (“CPPIB”), we invest alongside our clients with a long-term orientation. We originate to invest, aligning our capital with the outcomes we seek to deliver.
“Our broad scale, cycle-tested experience and alignment have positioned us as the partner of choice to many of the world’s leading institutional investors, from public and corporate pension funds to endowments, consultants, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices.”
- Private CreditDirect origination of senior secured loans to middle-market companies, supported by longstanding sponsor relationships, lead lender positions, and disciplined underwriting.
- Liquid CreditInvesting in syndicated loans and high yield bonds, applying Antares’ disciplined underwriting and platform insights to identify opportunity and manage risk across market cycles.
- Liquidity SolutionsProviding liquidity across private credit portfolios through LP- and GP-led transactions, applying disciplined structuring and credit expertise to address evolving investor needs.
Our Platform
Trusted Credit Solutions
Antares is a diversified credit platform spanning private and liquid markets. The advantage is not breadth alone—it is the ability to assess relative value and allocate capital accordingly.
Our Team
Global Reach, Trusted Relationships
Our dedicated Institutional Business Development team brings deep experience and long-term relationship expertise to help connect clients with the Antares solutions that best meet their goals.
Sheila Brown
Managing DirectorLondon
Gottfried Horich
Managing DirectorGermany
Andrew Lai
Managing DirectorNew York
Matthew Liepert
Managing DirectorChicago
Jeffrey Stammen
Managing DirectorNew York
Connect with Our Team
We’d be happy to discuss our credit solutions with you.
Footnotes
1 Capital under management & administration (CUMA) figure noted here relates to the Private Credit and Liquid Credit Strategies. includes, without duplication, Antares Holdings (an affiliated, non-discretionary portfolio, also referred to as the “Platform Balance Sheet”), third-party managed vehicles, and contract investor programs and is calculated as the sum of: (i) for CLOs and the Platform Balance Sheet, the sum of total outstanding principal balance of loans and loan commitments, equity-related investments, cash, restricted cash and cash equivalents; excludes CLO structured financings in place for accounts included in (iii) below; (ii) for BDCs, third-party net subscriptions and target operating leverage; (iii) for actively investing advised accounts and contract investor programs, the total equity commitments and, with respect to actively investing advised accounts, maximum leverage limits per the applicable limited partnership agreement or other governing document of such accounts; and (iv) for advised accounts or contract investor programs that are no longer investing, total outstanding principal balance of loans and loan commitments held by such vehicles. For purposes of the foregoing clauses (ii) and (iii), the target operating leverage and maximum leverage limits, respectively, included herein may be different from the actual amount of leverage applied in the case of any given account. Contract investor programs are not advised clients and are either self-directed or managed by a third party. For the avoidance of doubt, CUMA is not intended to be the same as (and is calculated differently as compared to) Antares Capital Advisers LLC’s, Antares Capital Credit Advisers LLC’s, Antares Liquid Credit Strategies LLC’s, or Antares Liquidity Solutions LLC’s regulatory assets under management, as reported under Item 5.F on Part 1 of Form ADV. Please contact Antares with any questions.
2 Antares Holdings LP is our CPPIB affiliated, non-discretionary portfolio, also referred to as the Antares investment portfolio herein.