Nut Tree Capital Management: Platform Profile

Overview

Nut Tree Capital Management is a New York investment manager founded in 2015 and led by Managing Partner and CIO Jared Nussbaum. The firm describes a fundamentals-based, long-biased strategy focused primarily on stressed and distressed corporate debt, low-loan-to-value high-yield debt, special situations and deep-value equities.

May fit better for

• investors seeking stressed and distressed credit exposure;
• allocators interested in special situations and deep-value equities;
• investors comfortable with concentrated event-driven positions;
• qualified investors able to tolerate credit-cycle and restructuring risk.

May fit less well for

• retail users seeking public self-service access;
• investors seeking broad public-equity diversification;
• users who infer firm AUM from a small 13F;
• investors uncomfortable with distressed-credit and event risk.

Nut Tree is SEC registered

• Legal adviser: Nut Tree Capital Management, LP
• CRD: 282219
• SEC number: 801-107075
• SEC registration effective: 2016-01-07
• SEC registered investment adviser: Yes

Current regulatory AUM is $5.118B

• Regulatory AUM: $5.118B
• Regulatory AUM exact: $5,117,744,000
• Regulatory AUM as of: 2026-03-04
• Account count: 9
• Employees: 13

Current private-fund GAV equals the reported RAUM amount

• Private fund count: 9
• Private fund gross assets: $5.118B
• SMA: No

Q2 2026 13F value is $419.014M

• Q2 2026 13F value: $419.014M
• Q2 2026 13F as of: 2026-06-30
• Q2 2026 13F holding count: 8

The filing is a narrow slice of a credit-heavy strategy.

Parser-scaling

At least one third-party page mis-scales the Q2 filing as roughly $419B.

Use:

• Q2 2026 13F correct value: $419.014M
• Incorrect q2 2026 13F value: $419B

First-party strategy identity

• Fundamentals based: Yes
• Long biased: Yes
• Stressed corporate debt: Yes
• Distressed corporate debt: Yes
• Low LTV high yield debt: Yes
• Special situations: Yes
• Deep value equities: Yes

A recent 13G filing identifies Jared R. Nussbaum as CIO and managing partner.

External public AUM references remain source dated

A late-2024 public campaign description stated Nut Tree then oversaw $4B.

Assessment

Nut Tree's $419.014M Q2 13F is less than one-tenth of its $5.118B RAUM because stressed/distressed corporate debt is central to the strategy. The larger risk is a parser scaling error that can turn the filing into a false $419B figure.