Jovan Samardzic

Managing Director

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Mr. Samardzic is a Managing Director and member of the private debt portfolio management team. As part of the portfolio management team, he acts as the lead portfolio manager for most of StepStone’s private debt portfolios. These portfolios include co-investments, primary and secondary investments into various private debt strategies including direct lending, syndicated loans and opportunistic and distressed strategies.

Additionally, Mr. Samardzic leads the research and analysis group within the portfolio management team, focusing on developing and improving concepts for managing private debt portfolios and performing various research work on the private debt asset class (e.g. impact on traditional portfolios, main risk and reward factors in pricing direct lending loans, illiquidity premium in private debt, etc.)

Mr. Samardzic holds a Master’s in Quantitative Finance from the University of Zurich (UZH) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) and he previously successfully completed a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Belgrade. Additionally, Mr. Samardzic is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a certified Financial Risk Manager.

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