1WS Credit
1WS Capital Advisors, LLC is the individual-investor-focused affiliate of One William Street Capital Management L.P. (OWS), an employee-owned global alternative credit asset management platform headquartered in New York. According to its website at 1wscapital.com, OWS manages approximately $8 billion in assets across multiple alternative credit strategies for a primarily institutional global investor base that includes pension funds and sovereign wealth funds. 1WS Capital Advisors manages the 1WS Credit Income Fund, a closed-end interval fund designed to provide individual investors with access to the same sophisticated alternative credit strategies that have historically been available only to institutional allocators.
The 1WS Credit Income Fund, described at 1wscapital.com, seeks attractive risk-adjusted total returns through generating income and capital appreciation by investing primarily in a wide array of structured credit and securitized debt instruments. The fund's portfolio is not constrained by any specific benchmark or index, giving the investment team flexibility to construct a portfolio across multiple collateral profiles and capital structures. The strategy focuses on asset-based and structured credit — a segment of the fixed income market that the firm views as under-represented in most retail investment portfolios — and employs an active, dynamic approach designed to adapt to changing market environments across economic cycles.
1WS Capital Advisors' cross-cycle, active investment approach is built on OWS's deep institutional expertise in alternative credit strategies that span structured finance, securitized credit, and asset-backed lending. According to 1wscapital.com, the firm's investment philosophy emphasizes disciplined top-down portfolio construction combined with rigorous bottom-up fundamental analysis of each credit opportunity. The interval fund structure provides individual investors with quarterly liquidity opportunities while allowing the fund to hold a portfolio of less liquid credit instruments that offer a return premium over traditional fixed income. 1WS represents a distinctive access point to institutional-caliber alternative credit management for the individual investor market.