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Fund Structure
Limited Partnership
Eligibility
Accredited Investors
Strategy Type
Stressed & Distressed Credit
Current Yield
5.4%
Jul 31, 2026
Yield to Maturity
7.25%
Jul 31, 2026
Minimum Investment
$500,000
Fund Inception
January 2025

Why invest in this Fund?

The Pender Credit Opportunities Fund targets special situation, stressed and distressed public credit: debt securities that have experienced significant price declines or widening credit spreads. The Fund seeks opportunities where forced selling, market technicals and volatility cause the debt of fundamentally sound businesses to trade below intrinsic value.

Investment Objective

The Fund seeks to capitalize on these dislocations to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns through capital appreciation and income, investing primarily in special situation, stressed and distressed debt securities of publicly traded companies.

Portfolio Fit

Designed for investors seeking a differentiated source of returns beyond traditional high yield and private credit, with the potential for equity-like returns, lower volatility and diversification benefits alongside traditional fixed income and equity allocations.

Fund Facts

Fund Code-Class F
Load Type
MERClass F
Trailer
Initial Investment
Asset ClassStressed & Distressed Credit
Valuation Frequency
Distributions
Benchmark
Subsequent Investment$0

MER was NIL as at due to waiver of fees. The management expense ratio ("MER") is calculated based on expenses charged to the fund inclusive of applicable taxes including GST and HST (excluding commissions, performance fees and other portfolio transaction costs) and is expressed as an annualized percentage of average net assets for the period/year. The applicable taxes are calculated using the attribution percentage for each province based on unitholder residency.

Performance

As at July 31, 2026
YTD3 Mo.6 Mo.1 Yr.Since Inception
Pender Credit Opportunities Fund9.46.86.131.115.3
ICE BofA US High Yield TR1.60.41.15.05.8
Excess Return7.86.45.026.19.5
As at July 31, 2026. All figures in percent (%). Since Inception returns are from January 2025. All returns greater than a year are annual compounded returns.

Available to Accredited Investors Only

The Pender Credit Opportunities Fund is a private limited partnership open to Accredited Investors who meet certain criteria. For more information, connect with our team.
Thilipan Mariyan
Managing Director of Institutional Sales
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Holdings

As at
Asset Allocation

Missing allocations.

Sector Allocation

Missing allocations.

Currency Allocation

Missing allocations.

Facts

Code Class Description MER Trailer Min. Investment Initial/[Subsequent]
-F/[$]

MER was NIL as at due to waiver of fees. The management expense ratio (“MER”) is calculated based on expenses charged to the fund inclusive of applicable taxes including GST and HST (excluding commissions, performance fees and other portfolio transaction costs) and is expressed as an annualized percentage of average net assets for the period/year. The applicable taxes are calculated using the attribution percentage for each province based on unitholder residency.

Asset Class:
Stressed & Distressed Credit
Inception Date:
January 31, 2025
Valuation Frequency:
Distributions:
Benchmark:

Documents

Fund Profile Class F
09/02/2026

Why Invest

Why opportunistic public credit?

A fundamentals-first approach that stays suitable regardless of where we are in the credit cycle.

Cycle-Resilient Performance

  • Focus on idiosyncratic, security-specific outcomes rather than broad market beta.
  • Deep credit analysis on each investment; risk is viewed as permanent loss of capital.
  • Aim to invest in deeply discounted credit with strong coverage.

Transparency & Liquidity

  • Daily mark-to-market pricing provides full transparency.
  • Mark-to-market pricing raises volatility, but volatility creates opportunity to acquire deeply discounted credit on technical dislocations.

Enhanced Portfolio Outcomes

  • Access to a return stream beyond traditional high yield and private credit.
  • Targets equity-like upside with lower volatility.
  • Adds low-correlation exposure to complement traditional fixed income and equity allocations.

Tax Efficiency

  • Returns generated are primarily from capital gains.

Evergreen

The opportunity that never closes

Dislocation is structural, not seasonal. Maturity walls, downgrades, forced selling and index exclusion continually create mispriced credit in both strong and weak markets.

Because the Fund runs a fixed capital pool and stays deliberately small, it can move into corners of the market where capital is scarce and competition is thin.

  • Fundamentals-first selection means the entry point matters more than the cycle.
  • A small, fixed capital base can participate where large managers and indexes cannot.
  • Daily mark-to-market volatility is treated as a source of entry, not a risk to avoid.

Stressed

Discounted bonds, 500 to 1000 bps OAS spread, performing credits.

Distressed

Heavily discounted bonds, over 1000 bps OAS spread, balance-sheet restructuring required.

Capital gains

Primary source of returns, tax-efficient by design.

Key Differentiators

Why Pender is different

Priced mark-to-market, the Fund offers a differentiated risk-to-reward stream across credit cycles.

Differentiated Strategy
A fixed capital pool and small fund size allow participation in a less efficient market where capital is scarce.
Enhanced Investor Experience
Full transparency through mark-to-market pricing and the liquidity to exit positions. Returns are primarily capital gains.
Consistent Process
A proven process: careful security selection, detailed credit analysis, active monitoring and rebalancing, and thoughtful company engagement.
Compelling​ Results​
The same stressed and distressed approach has been applied by the team since 2015. 

The Team

Experienced team

Extensive bankruptcy and restructuring experience, with deep due-diligence research focused on risk and capital preservation.

PENDER FIXED INCOME
07
Fixed income experts
09
Trading, operations and legal professionals
24
Investment professionals

Parul Garg, MBA

  • Associate Portfolio Manager; deploying the strategy since 2015.
  • Stressed / distressed credit specialist.
  • Experience in defaulted-securities, reorganizations and recapitalizations.
  • Engineering undergrad; post-graduate MBA; Wharton Distressed Asset Investing & Corporate Restructuring Program.
  • Over 10 years of experience.

Geoff Castle, MBA

  • Lead Portfolio Manager, Fixed Income; deploying the strategy since 2015.
  • Multiple successful defaulted-bond investments.
  • Experience serving on boards and in consulting roles.
  • Over 20 years of experience.
>10
Years of investing partnership in the Pender Corporate Bond Fund.

Monthly Commentary

Pender Credit Opportunities Fund - Q2 2026

Dear Co-investors, Thank you for your continued partnership in the Pender Credit Opportunities Fund. In the second quarter of 2026, the Fund appreciated 11.6% net of fees, aided by impactful contributions from Wolfspeed, Inc., Evolent Health, Inc., and Fluence Energy, Inc. We are also approaching an exciting milestone: our three-year track record of managing Funds […]

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Pender Credit Opportunities Fund - Q1 2026

Dear Co-investors, Thank you for your continued partnership in the Pender Credit Opportunities Fund. In this quarter’s letter, we will share our perspective on the opportunistic themes we are seeing ahead and also provide a closer look on a few of the high conviction, individual credits we hold. Fund at a Glance Pender Credit Opportunities […]

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Pender Credit Opportunities Fund - Q4 2025

Dear Investors Thank you for your continued partnership in the Pender Credit Opportunities Fund. As of December 31st, 2025, the Fund was up 13.7%1 (net of all expenses and fees) for the year. Over the same period, the benchmark returned 7.3%. In this letter, we will review the key contributors and detractors and then share […]

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