Octagon Asset Management

Founded by Mead Welles in 1998, Octagon Asset Management ("Octagon") specializes in alternative structured finance in the global trade, commodity, and transportation sectors. Though the firm operates worldwide, Octagon has a preference for emerging markets and manages a direct-lending trade and commodity finance vehicle. The firm's hedge fund arm focuses on investing in a diverse portfolio of structured trade finance loans and opportunistically taking advantage of special situations that come up from time to time in trade-related debt instruments; portfolios of receivables; transactions backed by readily marketable goods such as commodities, textiles, building materials, charters, diversified payment rights, and other cash flows; asset-backed or collateralized debt and relative-value, hedged or arbitrage investments in future-flow, government, top bank or corporate fixed-income instruments, equities or options of companies active in international trade.