Patton Hall, LLC

Patton Hall provides discretionary management through separately managed accounts to individuals and a range of institutional clients, including trusts, estates, charitable organizations and retirement plans. The firm generally manages accounts on a percentage-of-assets basis and typically implements its strategies for accounts at or above a $250,000 threshold, subject to waiver.

The firm’s investment approach is credit‑focused, investing across the full spectrum of domestic and international debt — including performing and distressed corporate debt, high‑yield, sovereign and emerging‑market securities — with an emphasis on identifying value mispricings, cross‑market dislocations and rating‑recast opportunities. Portfolio construction emphasizes downside protection through stop‑loss discipline, issuer and industry diversification, and the opportunistic use of ETFs and options to take negative‑credit or hedging positions; the manager states it does not use leverage, structured products, or bond short sales.

What is distinctive is the boutique scale and concentrated implementation: the firm manages a small number of client accounts with modest total AUM, which the brochure identifies can lead to larger positions in thinly traded or less liquid securities and correspondingly greater liquidity and concentration risks. The firm also highlights extensive, decades‑long institutional fixed‑income trading experience on the investment team and direct research relationships with major and boutique banks, while disclosing no soft‑dollar or performance‑fee arrangements.