Carronade’s Gropper on Investing: State of Distressed Debt

Carronade Capital Management Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer Dan Gropper expects the US to be in for a “rough ride.” “If I were today sitting on the board of a major corporation, I’m not sure I’d build my new factory or start a new division or open 14 new restaurants. You’d want to know what’s going to happen with the economy. And so even the uncertainty without the second- and third-order effects that can and will occur from tariffs, even before that happens, I think you’re already seeing people starting to pull back,” said Gropper, when he joined Bloomberg Intelligence’s Phil Brendel at the Beard Group’s Distressed Investment Media Night on May 6. He detailed his firm’s investment approach, which is rooted in deep distressed investing experience and a collaborative DNA (6:35). Prior to that, BI’s Noel Hebert and Brendel discussed the sharp widening of spreads in the energy sector and credit’s gloomy outlook. The podcast concludes with BI’s Negisa Balluku joining them for a roundtable discussion on Serta, Hertz, GOL, Incora, Ardagh, CommScope, WW International and Rite Aid (28:20).