How We Invest
We create portfolios of alternative investments
We invest on behalf of clients across alternative investments, such as hedge funds, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and opportunistic multi-asset. Clients select particular asset classes and strategies based on their investment preferences and goals. Additionally, as part of our Responsible Investment Practices, we consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors as important aspects of our fiduciary responsibility to our clients.
We create single-asset class and multi-asset class portfolios
We design, build and manage portfolios that include allocations to one or multiple alternative asset classes.
Hedge Funds
Private investment vehicles that invest – commonly long and short – in public markets globally.
Our hedge fund programs offer diversification across strategies, regions and sectors. Specific strategies include credit, equities, relative value, macro, commodities and multi-strategy. Programs may also focus on small, emerging and diverse managers, or on seeding opportunities. Clients may choose single-strategy or multi-strategy portfolios based on their asset allocation goals. Portfolio investments can be implemented through funds, co-investments, direct investments and customized account structures.
Private Equity
Investment strategies that involve the purchase of securities in private transactions.
Our private equity programs include investments in leveraged buyout, growth and venture capital, distressed debt and mezzanine debt strategies. Areas of focus include middle-market buyout and small, emerging and diverse managers. Programs are generally structured to seek diversification across strategy, investment type (primary fund commitments, secondary transactions and co-investments), sector, geography and vintage year.
Infrastructure
Private investments in global infrastructure projects, including contracted power generation, regulated utilities, transportation, telecommunications and public-private partnerships.
Infrastructure investments represent defensive, yield-generating assets that seek to produce stable, long-term returns and potentially provide a hedge against inflation. Our primary infrastructure investment focus is on core/core-plus infrastructure assets in North America, Western Europe and other OECD markets. Infrastructure investments may be implemented through primary fund investments, secondary fund purchases and direct/co-investments.
Within infrastructure, our Labor Impact Strategy seeks to originate and execute infrastructure projects that leverage the inclusion of union labor as a contributing factor to enabling attractive risk adjusted returns. We believe attractive infrastructure investment opportunities can be unlocked through close cooperation across labor, government and private capital. We also believe this collaboration will generate positive outcomes for labor and improve infrastructure assets and communities.
Our real estate programs include both equity and debt strategies and seek deep-value investments ranging from defensive, current-yield-producing transactions to opportunistic, return-oriented strategies. We invest broadly across all commercial asset types as well as niche asset opportunities. We focus primarily on the middle market, which we often access through investments with small, emerging and diverse managers. Programs are generally structured through customized accounts; portfolio investments can be implemented through funds, co-investments, joint ventures and seeding opportunities.
The Strategic Investments Group is a dedicated investment team that assesses the relative value of opportunities across GCM Grosvenor's global investment platform and executes what it believes to be the best opportunities, generally via direct investments and co-investments. The team constructs and manages opportunistic multi-asset class portfolios with distinct risk/return profiles.
Implementation options for portfolio investments
We have the resources, experience and long-standing relationships with managers to evaluate and implement investments in numerous ways. Because different structures offer different benefits, our goal is to choose structures that best match specific investment opportunities.
Fund Investments
Fund Investments
Investments in managers’ multi-client funds; such investments are also known as primary fund investments.
Co-Investments
Co-Investments
Investments made directly into businesses or securities in partnership with a manager.
Direct Investments
Direct Investments
Investments made directly into businesses or securities.
Secondary Transactions
Secondary Transactions
Acquired interests in a primary fund after the fund has been at least partially deployed in underlying investments.
Custom Structures
Custom Structures
Investments structured with specific characteristics for the exclusive use of a single investor or related group of investors.
No assurance can be given that any investment will achieve its objectives or avoid losses.
