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Senior members of the firm discuss the Strategic Investments Group’s (“SIG”) formation, process, and investment edge. In this overview video, you’ll hear how SIG looks to exploit compelling risk-adjusted return opportunities by leveraging the full power of our investment platform.
Few investment teams have the advantage of working within one of the oldest and largest independent alternative asset management firms. As the video highlights, SIG’s ability to leverage our global platform provides a unique ability to receive deal flow, investment opportunities, and market intelligence from our extensive manager relationships across alternative investments. David Richter, Managing Director, Hedge Fund Strategies, explains, “These ideas are higher return-seeking ideas. There are risks and volatility associated with these ideas, but they are quite eclectic coming from all different managers across sectors and regions, therefore they have a lower overall market correlation. So the idea that we can enhance our overall portfolio with ideas that are high return-seeking and lower correlated is very attractive in today’s environment.”
Fred Pollock, Group Head, Strategic Investment Group, notes that “a flexible mandate is essential to making opportunistic investments, [SIG] can invest across geographies, sectors, as well as the capital structure. Most importantly, we can invest across the liquidity spectrum.” This flexibility extends not only to the investments, but to the structure of offerings. SIG assesses the relative value of opportunities across GCM Grosvenor’s global investment platform and executes what the team believes to be the best opportunities, generally via direct investments and co-investments.
The investment professionals and traders in SIG are supported by GCM Grosvenor’s global investment and operations staff throughout all stages of the investment and execution processes. SIG’s access to the significant resources on our platform provides valuable efficiencies and speed to execution, which are critical for any tactical investment program.
In our latest post, we discuss how structured securities can be an attractive option for both investors and stressed growth companies looking to generate capital prior to an IPO.
We discuss the different ways investors can think about their allocations and compare case studies of how clients have categorized multi-asset investments.
Important Disclosures:
Investments in alternatives are speculative and involve substantial risk, including strategy risks, manager risks, market risks, and structural/operational risks, and may result in the possible loss of your entire investment. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. The views expressed are for informational purposes only and are not intended to serve as a forecast, a guarantee of future results, investment recommendations or an offer to buy or sell securities by GCM Grosvenor. All expressions of opinion are subject to change without notice in reaction to shifting market, economic, or political conditions. The investment strategies mentioned are not personalized to your financial circumstances or investment objectives, and differences in account size, the timing of transactions and market conditions prevailing at the time of investment may lead to different results. Certain information included herein may have been provided by parties not affiliated with GCM Grosvenor. GCM Grosvenor has not independently verified such information and makes no representation or warranty as to its accuracy or completeness.
We offer clients a broad range of tailored solutions across strategies, including multi-strategy, macro, relative value, long/short equity, quantitative strategies, and opportunistic credit. Levaraging our large scale and presence in the industry, we are able to offer clients preferntial exposure to hard-to-access managers and seek to obtain terms that can drive economic and structural advantages.
