MSDL vs SLRX Comparison

Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund is a fund whose investment objective is to achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns via current income and to a lesser extent, capital appreciation by investing predominantly in directly originated senior secured term loans issued by U.S. middle-market companies backed by private equity sponsors. It invests predominantly in directly originated senior secured term loans including first lien senior secured term loans including unitranche loans and second lien senior secured term loans, with the balance of the investments expected to be in higher-yielding assets such as mezzanine debt, unsecured debt, equity investments and other opportunistic asset purchases.

Salarius Pharmaceuticals Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing effective treatments for cancers with high, unmet medical needs. The company has focused on two classes of drugs that address gene dysregulation: targeted protein inhibitors and targeted protein degradation. Its Pipeline includes seclidemstat (SP-2577), a small molecular inhibitor, and SP-3164, a small molecular protein degrader.