HighVista Strategies

Boston-based alternative asset manager HighVista Strategies has completed its acquisition of abrdn, growing its AUM to roughly $9 billion.

Boston-based HighVista Strategies has agreed to purchase the U.S. private markets business of abrdn, including the U.S. private equity and venture capital assets and the investment and operational teams. The acquisition, expected to close later this year, boosts HighVista’s assets ...

Raphael Schorr of HighVista Strategies discusses how the firm's private credit business is stepping in where banks have stepped out, among other recent trends.

Boston-based HighVista Strategies held the final close of its second private credit fund at $450 million with a focus on generating returns by investing in more “off-the-run” areas than traditional private markets. HighVista Opportunistic Private Credit Fund II will invest ...

In a country where high-stakes courtroom drama makes daily headlines (think Depp vs. Heard), it may come as no surprise that legal cases have become an alpha opportunity as interest in lending with potential settlements as collateral is on the ...

Alternative credit exploded in the low interest-rate world following the 2008 financial crisis. More than a decade later, bonds and bank accounts have failed to generate yield, so income investors have turned to riskier and exotic investments. Rates are trending ...