#18 The Distressed Damsel - Dominique Mielle on Distressed Debt, CLOs & Women in Hedge Funds

#18 The Distressed Damsel - Dominique Mielle on Distressed Debt, CLOs & Women in Hedge Funds

Author: Stephen Clapham's Podcast on Value Investing | Stockmarket Analysis | Equities December 30, 2022 Duration: 56:10

Dominique Mielle had an illustrious career as a distressed debt hedge fund manager, including building a $5bn CLO business from scratch at Canyon Advisors. She retired from hedge funds, wrote a book, amusingly titled Damsel in Distressed (it was too good not to borrow), about her story to inspire women to follow her lead. 

In this interview, she talks about why there are not more women in hedge funds and in investing more broadly; about the complexity of the distressed debt business; and about being a woman in a man’s world.

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