Diameter Blazes Past Peers With Hedge Fund Built on Speed (1)

There’s no real secret to the success of Diameter Capital Partners, one of the hottest hedge funds in credit investing. Ask co-founders Scott Goodwin and Jonathan Lewinsohn and they’ll tell you it all boils down to a simple maxim: “Know the names.”

Names is their way of describing the tens of thousands of individual securities in the global bond and loan markets. Know means understanding them all well enough to make decisions faster than anyone else.

“Speed of capital is really what matters,” Lewinsohn, 42, said in a Bloomberg “Front Row” interview. “You don’t have time anymore in this ...