Antares Capital, an alternative asset manager with approximately $83 billion in capital under management and administration, welcomed Jean Hsu to the boards of trustees of the firm’s growing suite of business development companies designed for institutional and individual investors.
“We are pleased to welcome Jean to the boards of our family of BDCs,” Vivek Mathew, president of Antares Capital Advisers, said. “Jean brings decades of institutional investing expertise and a proven track record of strategic leadership at one of the world’s most sophisticated asset owners. Her insights and experience will be invaluable as we continue to scale our platform and make our products more accessible to the private wealth community.”
A seasoned investment leader, Hsu brings deep expertise in structure and credit in the private markets, with a strong focus on innovation and long-term strategy. She retired in 2024 as global head of private debt at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), a public pension fund. Over her distinguished 25-year tenure at CalPERS, Hsu held multiple senior leadership roles, including managing investment director for opportunistic strategies, and served on key committees responsible for strategic asset allocation and investment decisions across the total fund. While at CalPERS, Hsu led the launch of the market’s first term asset-backed securities loan facility (TALF) deal as well as the fund’s participation in more than $5 billion of TALF transactions beginning in 2009. Hsu also played a pivotal role in establishing the fund’s collateralized loan obligations (CLO) portfolio in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.
Prior to CalPERS, Hsu practiced law with a focus on banking, securities, and corporate finance. She holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and is a Fulbright Scholar.
“I’m excited to join the boards at a pivotal time as Antares continues to scale its BDC platform to meet growing demand from both institutional and individual investors. As someone who spent decades managing institutional capital, I believe strongly in the role private credit can play in individual portfolios, and I’m pleased to help shape strategies that bring that potential to more investors,” Hsu said. “As the market continues to mature, expanding access to private wealth investors, responsibly and thoughtfully, is a natural next step, and I look forward to contributing to the firm’s efforts in this space.”
