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ZAIS Investment Strategy
ZAIS' core investment strategies include extensive due diligence and use of our proprietary analytical models to analyze and select investments for our funds. Our strategy features several key components:

Quantitative cash-flow and scenario analysis using ZAIS proprietary models:  
  • Complete Cash Flow and waterfall modeling
  • Analyzing underlying collateral portfolios & cash flows
  • Calculating correlation among asset pools
  • Analyzing underlying security vintages
  • Evaluation of risk/return profiles of various underlying asset classes
  • Analyzing historic and market implied loss profiles
Full structural and legal analysis  
  • Complete review of deal’s documentation
  • Examination of Rating Agency constraints including concentration limits, subordination, over-collateralization, call premium, diversity score, etc.
  • Analyzing legal issues like voting rights, tax issues etc.
Ongoing dialogue and communication with involved parties and market participants  
  • Extensive rating agency contacts and dialogue
  • Daily involvement in the primary & secondary market with close relationships to both sell side and buy side parties
  • Close relationships to collateral managers and servicers with frequent due diligence meetings
  • Significant involvement in the academic development of the space