Generate Advisors Recognized as Best US CLO Manager by Creditflux

Award reflects the firm’s strong results across its CLOs in 2023

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Generate Advisors, LLC (“Generate Advisors”), the CLO management platform and subsidiary of Kennedy Lewis Investment Management LLC (“Kennedy Lewis”), an alternative investment firm focused on credit, won the Best US CLO Manager award from Creditflux for calendar year 2023. The award recognizes Generate as the manager who delivered the best performance across CLO risk and return metrics out of the pool of 80 CLO managers who submitted performance data.

"We are incredibly proud of this achievement, which is the result of our team’s determination, focus and commitment to delivering value for our investors," said Rizwan Akhter, head of Generate Advisors. "This award reflects our focus on active risk management and highlights our strong momentum, which has accelerated since we were acquired by Kennedy Lewis, whose expertise and resources benefit our platform and investors. We are excited about the opportunity set in our market and look forward to continuing to capitalize on that opportunity for our investors."

Generate Advisors was also shortlisted for the Best US CLO Manager award for calendar years 2021 and 2022. The Generate team has been managing CLOs for nearly a decade and currently manages $6.3 billion across 15 CLOs, of which three were priced this year.

"Congratulations to Rizwan and the outstanding Generate team," said David K. Chene and Darren L. Richman, Co-Founders and Co-Managing Partners of Kennedy Lewis. “Since they joined us, we have consistently been impressed by Generate’s investment approach and risk management capabilities. We believe the Generate platform is extremely compelling for investors across the capital stack and we are thrilled to witness the validation as conveyed by Creditflux’s award recognition.”

About Kennedy Lewis

Kennedy Lewis is a credit focused alternative investment firm founded in 2017 by David K. Chene and Darren L. Richman with $16 billion under management across private funds, a business development company, and collateralized loan obligations. The firm seeks to deliver attractive risk adjusted returns for clients by investing across the credit markets through its opportunistic credit, homebuilder finance, core lending and broadly syndicated loan strategies.