Investment Perspectives
Strategic Investments
As market dislocations evolve, compelling opportunities have emerged across assets, including credit, equities, and sub-segments of the private capital markets. We share how a flexible, multi-asset class approach seeks to capitalize on current and future dislocations and deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns.
Read PostIn Brief | May 2020
Private Equity
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt the global economy, many private equity general partners are approaching their limited partners with proposed amendments designed to provide funds with added flexibility to deploy capital. Here, we discuss these amendments and how best to evaluate them.
Read PostIn Brief | May 2020
Private Equity
The global COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the economy, financial markets and individuals around the world. During and following such market downturns, an increased number of LPs and GPs face pressure to raise liquidity at the same time that traditional avenues tend to freeze up. Here, we review what’s happening in the secondary marketplace in response to the crisis and highlight the compelling secondary opportunities.
Read PostIn Brief | April 2020
Hedge Fund Strategies
Amid lower expected returns in traditional markets and shifts in the political landscape, we believe hedge funds continue to play an important role in a well-constructed investment portfolio.
Read PostIn Sight | February 2020
Infrastructure
Institutions seeking long-term yields may consider increasing their infrastructure allocation to capitalize on the strategy’s tailwinds — particularly those U.S. institutions who have committed less capital to the strategy compared to their non-U.S. peers.
Read PostIn Brief | December 2019
Private Equity
As the current market cycle matures, investors should look back at historical peaks – and ensuing fallouts – to better understand today’s private equity market. Here, we provide five considerations for creating a balanced private equity program for any market cycle.
Read PostIn Brief | November 2019
Private Equity
In seeking opportunities in a growing market, private equity co-investors need broad access to deals, and selection of these deals can be a matter of both manager quality and individual deal potential. We explain why diligence on both fronts is imperative.
Read PostIn Brief | August 2019
Strategic Investments
Watch the video to learn more about how our Strategic Investments Group seeks to capitalize on compelling risk-adjusted return opportunities by leveraging the full power of our platform.
Read PostStrategy Highlight | August 2019
Private Equity
Many investors want to incorporate investments with diverse managers into their portfolios — but the implementation can present a variety of challenges. Derek Jones, who leads our Private Equity diverse manager investment efforts, outlines what it takes.
Read PostIn Brief | May 2019
Credit
Despite a challenging fixed income environment, we see a wide range of investment opportunities in the non-traditional portion of the global credit markets. Here, we explore some of the attributes that can drive value in opportunistic credit and outline key investment themes that address the current headwinds for fixed income and credit investors.
Read PostIn Brief | April 2019
Infrastructure
Getting infrastructure deals across the finish line can be challenging. Three GCM Grosvenor experts with key stakeholder perspectives – labor, government and private capital – discuss how to gain the necessary buy-in for successful projects.
Read PostIn Brief | February 2019
Due Diligence
Two GCM Grosvenor professionals discuss the importance of performing operational due diligence (“ODD”) in seeking to mitigate uncompensated risks, highlighting key elements of an effective ODD program.
Read PostIn Brief | September 2018
Infrastructure
In assessing the global need for new or improved infrastructure, we believe there is a compelling opportunity for private investors with a long-term horizon.
Read PostIn Brief | May 2018
Strategic Investments
An increasing number of investors have begun to embrace a multi-asset approach to alternative investing; we discuss the benefits, differences and commonly asked questions of this approach.
Read PostIn Brief | November 2017
