Cedar Spring Advisors

Cedar Spring focuses on asset-based lending where loan repayment is secured by a discrete pool of hard assets, contract rights, or real property. The firm's activities span commercial real estate bridge loans, equipment and vehicle finance, infrastructure debt, and structured pools of specialty finance receivables. It avoids unsecured corporate lending and covenant-lite broadly syndicated loans, concentrating instead on collateral packages that yield current cash pay with defined exit pathways.

Rather than operating a traditional closed-end commingled fund, Cedar Spring typically manages separately mandated accounts or single-investor vehicles for each institutional partner. This allows large allocators, particularly pension funds and insurance companies, to set bespoke risk parameters, duration targets, and sector exposures. The firm also structures deal-by-deal co-investment vehicles aligned with a specific asset pool's economics.

Jeffrey Moslow is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Investment Officer, and he chairs the investment committee. Having spent his prior career at Goldman Sachs' Special Situations Group and Irving Place Capital structuring complex, collateralized transactions, he is the central architect of the firm's credit thesis and ultimate decision-maker on commitments.

The firm avoids unsecured corporate credit, growth-stage venture debt, and high-beta, consumer-facing lending where the collateral value is a brand or future revenue projection rather than a liquid or appraisable hard asset. It generally does not underwrite loans predicated on a sale or IPO for repayment, preferring assets with existing cash-flow streams or high recovery rates in liquidation.

The firm's origination pipeline depends on relationships developed by Moslow across two decades in institutional structured finance. Deal flow arrives from regional U.S. banks selling loan portfolios to manage balance-sheet exposure, specialty finance originators seeking warehouse or takeout financing, and corporate divestitures of captive finance arms. This bilateral, relationship-driven sourcing reduces reliance on competitive auction processes.