Seeking consistent alpha across the credit spectrum.

Firm overview

An
industry-leading
investment manager

Sona Asset Management was founded in 2016, by John Aylward. The firm specialises in investing across the credit spectrum with a primary focus on European markets. Sona seeks to generate positive, uncorrelated returns in all markets and puts emphasis on capital preservation and outperformance at times of stress. Sona’s footprint includes offices in London, New York and Hong Kong.

London Office
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All-Weather Credit

A long/short, European focused,
fundamental, event-driven
and relative valuation
credit strategy

Capital Solutions

Provides targeted
capital in situations
where funding
is scarce

FIOS CLO

Active management of
high quality, diversified
broadly syndicated
loan portfolios

Significant Risk Transfer

Sona seeks to construct a
portfolio of SRT deals that
generate attractive risk-
adjusted returns, with a high
sharpe ratio and consistent
income generation.

All-Weather CreditA long/short, European focused, fundamental, event-driven and relative valuation credit strategy.Capital SolutionsProvides targeted capital in situations where funding is scarce.
All-Weather CreditA long/short, European focused, fundamental, event-driven and relative valuation credit strategy.Capital SolutionsProvides targeted capital in situations where funding is scare.

Our approach

Generate attractive risk-adjusted returns.

The firm’s ultimate objective is to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns using a combination of fundamental, event-driven, and relative valuation investment methodologies. Our combination of rigorous fundamental research and experienced trading skillset is a key differentiator for outperformance in credit markets.

See Our Strategies

Our team

The fusion of diversity and experience.

Sona has grown to include 53 investment and 51 business professionals, many of whom have long-standing working relationships that go back as far as 20 years for many of the senior members.

Meet Our Team

  • 104
    Person team
  • 53
    Investment professionals
  • 20
    Average years investment team experience
  • 13
    Languages
  • 16
    Nationalities

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