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The common theme for Hildene is finding inexpensive assets (on both a relative and absolute basis) that are fundamentally mispriced due to factors such as inefficient markets, misunderstood structural value, product complexity, as well as other special situations. Hildene believes that a substantial opportunity currently exists in the distressed/stressed structured finance market due to poor asset underwriting, high default rates, a faulty rating process, investment bank write-downs and decreased liquidity.
Hildene uses conservative investment principles, including:

Hildene’s depth of expertise allows it to look at complex structured credit situations to uncover value opportunities. Much of the work is done in advance of an opportunity being presented – you must be Proactive to be Reactive when opportunities come to market or they will be gone and may never be seen again.