Mr. Samardzic, CFA, FRM is Managing Director and a member of the SPD Team. He is part of the Portfolio Management team which manages the Private Debt assets of the Stepstone Group. As part of the Portfolio Management team, he acts as the lead portfolio manager for most of the Private Debt portfolios. These portfolios include co-investments as well as primary and secondary investments into various Private Debt strategies including Direct Lending, Syndicated Loans, Opportunistic and Distressed strategies, etc.

Additionally, he is in the lead of the Research & Analysis group within the Portfolio Management team which focuses on developing and improving concepts for managing the Private Debt portfolios and performing various research related work on Private Debt as an asset class (e.g. impact on traditional portfolios, main risk and reward factors in pricing Direct Lending loans, illiquidity premium in Private Debt, etc.)

He holds a Master Degree in Quantitative Finance from the University of Zurich (UZH) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) and he previously successfully completed the Master Studies in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Belgrade.