Morgan Stanley, Ashwin Krishnan in 9fin: Opportunistic credit finds itself in the LP spotlight

Co-CEO of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing: Lauren Hochfelder on Bloomberg’s Women, Money & Power.

Brian Smith, co-head of the wealth strategies group at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, sits down with InvestmentNews anchor Gregg Greenberg to highlight the firm’s innovations around tax management, including the recently launched tax education center platform and the Tax Optimized Portfolio Solutions (TOPS) Tool that were introduced earlier this year and how they impacts clients.

Neha Champaneria Markle, head of Morgan Stanley Private Equity Solutions, sits down with InvestmentNews anchor Gregg Greenberg to discuss how her team makes private equity available to individual investors, the opportunities in the lower middle market and why Morgan Stanley’s broader platform and resources give her team an edge.

As investors seek to diversify their portfolio exposures beyond traditional assets, alternative lending may offer attractive absolute and risk-adjusted return characteristics.