How We Invest

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.

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 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.