October 14, 2026 • 2:00PM ET • 1 CE Credit

Asset-Backed Finance: Understanding the Market and the Search for Alpha

• 1 CE Credit
Lessons/Sessions to be included:
• Asset-Backed Finance: Understanding the Market and the Search for Alpha

Monroe will provide an educational overview of the asset-backed finance market and clarify the distinctions between ABS, ABL, and ABF.

Drawing on more than 15 years of experience in asset-backed lending, Monroe will discuss how complexity in collateral, structure, and sourcing can create attractive opportunities for investors. The webcast will explore:

  • Hard-asset strategies across real estate, digital infrastructure, aircraft, and equipment, as well as specialty finance opportunities including royalties, litigation finance, fund finance, and consumer credit.
  • How lower middle market asset-backed strategies can complement traditional corporate direct lending.
  • How a selective, directly originated approach—often as a sole or lead lender—can seek to enhance downside protection, recovery outcomes, and structural control.

Speakers

Kyle Asher

Co-Head and Co-Portfolio Manager, Alternative Credit Solutions

Monroe Capital

Mr. Asher is a Managing Director, Co-Head and Co-Portfolio Manager of Monroe Capital’s Alternative Credit Solutions investment vehicles. He is responsible for deal origination, structuring, and portfolio management, as well as overseeing the alternative credit business and its team.  As part of the alternative credit business, Mr. Asher co-leads the firms’ investments in real estate, specialty finance and corporate special situations.   He joined the firm in 2009 and is a member of the fund’s Investment Committee. He serves as the Co-Chair of the firm’s Strategic Planning Committee. Mr. Asher has over 15 years of investment experience and has led the underwriting of over $5 billion of debt and equity transactions, across a variety of opportunistic private investments. Prior to Monroe, he was an Analyst with Chicago-based Calder Capital Partners, a direct and fund-of-funds private equity firm partly owned by Goldman Sachs and Ares Capital (formerly Allied Capital), where he performed due diligence on various direct and fund-of-fund investments, sourced transactions and assisted in capital raising. Mr. Asher began his career as an Equity Analyst for MindShare Capital, an institutional money-manager where he focused on the valuation and trading patterns of small-cap growth companies. Mr. Asher earned his M.B.A. in Finance and International Business from Northwestern University and his B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Northwestern University.

Anton Marinchik

Managing Director, Wealth Business Development – Head of RIAs

Monroe Capital

Anton Marinchik is a Director, Wealth Business Development - Head of RIAs of Monroe Capital. He primarily focuses on the retail channel marketing to registered investment advisors, high net worth individuals and family offices. He has over 10 years of experience in alternative investments, structured derivatives, and financial advisor platform development. Prior to Monroe, Mr. Marinchik was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, in charge of running the Capital Markets Desk catered to RIAs, Hybrid Broker-Dealers, and Family Offices. His responsibilities included helping advisors access private markets, creating structured investments, building out the Goldman Sachs Custody platform and onboarding advisor teams, delivering lending & liquidity solutions to clients, and helping advisors hedge concentrated positions. Mr. Marinchik earned his B.A. in Economics from the College of the Holy Cross. He is a Trustee member of Hebrew Senior Life, a non-profit senior living community and health care services organization, located in Boston, Massachusetts.

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