Strategies
Investment Grade Private CreditPrivate Debt
Investment Grade* Private Credit
Focuses on generating capital-efficient investment income through asset-backed finance, private corporate credit, and structured products. Tailored for insurance companies, this strategy emphasizes reliable returns while prioritizing capital preservation and industry regulatory compliance.
With proven expertise in direct lending, our Credit platform sits at the forefront of the private credit market. We specialize in providing a range of customized financing solutions to both private equity-sponsored and non-sponsored companies across debt and equity-related instruments. Our investment capabilities also span the alternative credit and asset-based finance markets, allowing us to harness the power of our collective insights and provide innovative capital structure solutions for our borrowers and partners.
Approach
We are investors for the long term. Our relationship-oriented approach to investing can provide borrowers with sizable commitments to facilitate transactions and support their growth needs with certainty, speed, and transparency throughout the entire investment process. Through our extensive senior-level relationships with sponsors, we can create sourcing across multiple touchpoints.
Expertise
Led by a seasoned senior management team, our Credit platform is supported by a group of investment professionals with significant and diverse experience investing across varying market environments and business cycles.
Scale
Our dry powder allows our Credit platform to provide scaled financing solutions, commit to full capital structures, and support the future capital needs of borrowers. We have demonstrated our ability to source proprietary investment opportunities, across debt and equity investments, with $130 billion in gross originations across our direct lending business since inception.
Liquid CreditPrivate Debt
Liquid Credit
Focuses on the management of CLO portfolios of broadly syndicated, leveraged loans with an emphasis on liquid-market, senior secured, and floating-rate first lien loans. The strategy also invests in third-party CLO equity and junior mezzanine tranches on behalf of separately managed accounts.
With proven expertise in direct lending, our Credit platform sits at the forefront of the private credit market. We specialize in providing a range of customized financing solutions to both private equity-sponsored and non-sponsored companies across debt and equity-related instruments. Our investment capabilities also span the alternative credit and asset-based finance markets, allowing us to harness the power of our collective insights and provide innovative capital structure solutions for our borrowers and partners.
Approach
We are investors for the long term. Our relationship-oriented approach to investing can provide borrowers with sizable commitments to facilitate transactions and support their growth needs with certainty, speed, and transparency throughout the entire investment process. Through our extensive senior-level relationships with sponsors, we can create sourcing across multiple touchpoints.
Expertise
Led by a seasoned senior management team, our Credit platform is supported by a group of investment professionals with significant and diverse experience investing across varying market environments and business cycles.
Scale
Our dry powder allows our Credit platform to provide scaled financing solutions, commit to full capital structures, and support the future capital needs of borrowers. We have demonstrated our ability to source proprietary investment opportunities, across debt and equity investments, with $130 billion in gross originations across our direct lending business since inception.
Professional Sports Minority StakesDevelopment / Minority Capital
Professional Sports Minority Stakes
As part of our established relationship with the NBA, we are building a diversified portfolio of minority equity investments in professional basketball teams, aiming to become the buyer of choice for selling owners.
For more than a decade, our GP Strategic Capital platform has been at the forefront of providing innovative, long-term minority equity and financing solutions to leading private capital managers.
We invest more than capital. Through our Business Services Platform, we aim to empower our partner managers with strategic support and resources that allow them to focus on their core competence: investing.
Built on experience, permanence, and alignment of interests, and with more than a decade of experience across more than 90 debt and equity transactions, we specialize in delivering innovative solutions to private capital managers.
Redefining long-term partnerships for alternative managers is our priority. As a non-control investor, we aim to be maximally aligned and minimally invasive—always operating at the highest standard to deliver the best possible outcomes.
Strategic EquitySecondary
Blue Owl Strategic Equity Strategy focuses on single-asset GP-led secondary transactions, or continuation fund investments. The effort will benefit from Blue Owl's direct lending and GP capital solutions divisions, with fundraising targeting both institutional investors and private wealth channels.
For more than a decade, our GP Strategic Capital platform has been at the forefront of providing innovative, long-term minority equity and financing solutions to leading private capital managers.
We invest more than capital. Through our Business Services Platform, we aim to empower our partner managers with strategic support and resources that allow them to focus on their core competence: investing.
Built on experience, permanence, and alignment of interests, and with more than a decade of experience across more than 90 debt and equity transactions, we specialize in delivering innovative solutions to private capital managers.
Redefining long-term partnerships for alternative managers is our priority. As a non-control investor, we aim to be maximally aligned and minimally invasive—always operating at the highest standard to deliver the best possible outcomes.
Net LeaseReal Estate
Net Lease
Our real estate strategies focus on acquiring single-tenant, free-standing properties across industrial, essential retail, and data centers that are net-leased, long-term, to investment grade and creditworthy* tenants. This combination seeks to create predictable cash flow from long-term rents in our effort to provide investors with current income, net of fees, plus appreciation and limited downside risk.
Since its inception, our Real Estate platform has established itself as a leader in real estate investing, offering flexible capital solutions to tenants and borrowers across asset classes and geographies. Through our credit-first approach, we seek to provide investors with predictable current income and attractive risk-adjusted returns while focusing on limiting downside risk.
Certainty
Over several decades and through various market cycles, we have established a reputation for delivering speed, scale, and certainty in execution. Our track record of reliability has earned us the trust of our partners in offering bespoke capital solutions.
Clarity
Our Real Estate platform is designed to provide confidence to our investors through predictable cash flow and current income. Paired with an equal emphasis on downside risk mitigation, we ensure that our investors have a clear line of sight on the capital they have entrusted in us.
Discipline
Credit quality is the foundation of our investment thesis, underpinning our stringent investment criteria, rigorous underwriting, and due diligence processes across our net lease and financing strategies.
GP Debt FinacingPrivate Debt
GP Debt Financing
Through well-collateralized, senior secured loans to private alternative asset management companies, we help borrowers drive business growth, fund GP commitments, and launch new strategies.
For more than a decade, our GP Strategic Capital platform has been at the forefront of providing innovative, long-term minority equity and financing solutions to leading private capital managers.
We invest more than capital. Through our Business Services Platform, we aim to empower our partner managers with strategic support and resources that allow them to focus on their core competence: investing.
Built on experience, permanence, and alignment of interests, and with more than a decade of experience across more than 90 debt and equity transactions, we specialize in delivering innovative solutions to private capital managers.
Redefining long-term partnerships for alternative managers is our priority. As a non-control investor, we aim to be maximally aligned and minimally invasive—always operating at the highest standard to deliver the best possible outcomes.
GP Minority StakesGP Stakes
GP Minority Stakes
We provide capital to the world’s leading alternative investment firms, primarily focused on acquiring minority equity stakes in established private market managers.
For more than a decade, our GP Strategic Capital platform has been at the forefront of providing innovative, long-term minority equity and financing solutions to leading private capital managers.
We invest more than capital. Through our Business Services Platform, we aim to empower our partner managers with strategic support and resources that allow them to focus on their core competence: investing.
Built on experience, permanence, and alignment of interests, and with more than a decade of experience across more than 90 debt and equity transactions, we specialize in delivering innovative solutions to private capital managers.
Redefining long-term partnerships for alternative managers is our priority. As a non-control investor, we aim to be maximally aligned and minimally invasive—always operating at the highest standard to deliver the best possible outcomes.
Direct LendingPrivate Debt
Direct Lending
Focuses on lending to primarily upper-middle-market companies, both private equity-sponsored and non-sponsored, providing a range of customized financing solutions across debt and equity-related instruments. This strategy offers differentiated access points across Diversified Lending, Technology Lending, First Lien Lending and Opportunistic Lending.
With proven expertise in direct lending, our Credit platform sits at the forefront of the private credit market. We specialize in providing a range of customized financing solutions to both private equity-sponsored and non-sponsored companies across debt and equity-related instruments. Our investment capabilities also span the alternative credit and asset-based finance markets, allowing us to harness the power of our collective insights and provide innovative capital structure solutions for our borrowers and partners.
Approach
We are investors for the long term. Our relationship-oriented approach to investing can provide borrowers with sizable commitments to facilitate transactions and support their growth needs with certainty, speed, and transparency throughout the entire investment process. Through our extensive senior-level relationships with sponsors, we can create sourcing across multiple touchpoints.
Expertise
Led by a seasoned senior management team, our Credit platform is supported by a group of investment professionals with significant and diverse experience investing across varying market environments and business cycles.
Scale
Our dry powder allows our Credit platform to provide scaled financing solutions, commit to full capital structures, and support the future capital needs of borrowers. We have demonstrated our ability to source proprietary investment opportunities, across debt and equity investments, with $130 billion in gross originations across our direct lending business since inception.
Alternative CreditPrivate Debt
Alternative Credit
Targets credit-oriented investments in markets underserved by traditional lenders or the broader capital markets, with deep expertise investing across specialty finance, private corporate credit and equipment leasing. This strategy offers differentiated exposure through our extensive sourcing network, asset-based expertise, and ability to underwrite complexity.
With proven expertise in direct lending, our Credit platform sits at the forefront of the private credit market. We specialize in providing a range of customized financing solutions to both private equity-sponsored and non-sponsored companies across debt and equity-related instruments. Our investment capabilities also span the alternative credit and asset-based finance markets, allowing us to harness the power of our collective insights and provide innovative capital structure solutions for our borrowers and partners.
Approach
We are investors for the long term. Our relationship-oriented approach to investing can provide borrowers with sizable commitments to facilitate transactions and support their growth needs with certainty, speed, and transparency throughout the entire investment process. Through our extensive senior-level relationships with sponsors, we can create sourcing across multiple touchpoints.
Expertise
Led by a seasoned senior management team, our Credit platform is supported by a group of investment professionals with significant and diverse experience investing across varying market environments and business cycles.
Scale
Our dry powder allows our Credit platform to provide scaled financing solutions, commit to full capital structures, and support the future capital needs of borrowers. We have demonstrated our ability to source proprietary investment opportunities, across debt and equity investments, with $130 billion in gross originations across our direct lending business since inception.
Real Estate CreditPrivate Debt
Real Estate Credit
Our Real Estate Credit strategy offers a diverse range of competitive financing solutions. We invest in both the public and private markets, seeking to generate equity-like returns while maintaining well-protected positions in the capital structure. Secured by real assets with predictable cashflows, our strategy aims to generate diversification, current income potential, and downside mitigation for our investors.
Since its inception, our Real Estate platform has established itself as a leader in real estate investing, offering flexible capital solutions to tenants and borrowers across asset classes and geographies. Through our credit-first approach, we seek to provide investors with predictable current income and attractive risk-adjusted returns while focusing on limiting downside risk.
Certainty
Over several decades and through various market cycles, we have established a reputation for delivering speed, scale, and certainty in execution. Our track record of reliability has earned us the trust of our partners in offering bespoke capital solutions.
Clarity
Our Real Estate platform is designed to provide confidence to our investors through predictable cash flow and current income. Paired with an equal emphasis on downside risk mitigation, we ensure that our investors have a clear line of sight on the capital they have entrusted in us.
Discipline
Credit quality is the foundation of our investment thesis, underpinning our stringent investment criteria, rigorous underwriting, and due diligence processes across our net lease and financing strategies.
Other managers
BluePointe Ventures
San Meteo, United StatesBluePointe Ventures invests in founders who eschew frontier technology that is responsible for the fast changing human experience. Our investments range from AI based Bots to marketplaces to cloud based data center software. We relentlessly focus on leveraging our deep silicon valley tech network to support our founders achieve their dreams.
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Blackstone Group
New York, United StatesBlackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which we invest. Our more than $1 trillion in assets under management include global investment strategies focused on real estate, private equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, credit, real assets, secondaries and hedge funds.
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Blackstone Group
New York, United StatesBlackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $991 billion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.
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ICONIQ Capital
San Francisco, United StatesICONIQ Capital is a global investment firm elevated by an extraordinary community. We seek to build resilient investment portfolios, partner with inspired entrepreneurs transforming industries, manage our clients’ lives and legacies, and create uncommon opportunities across sectors and society. Together, we channel ideas, energy, and capital to strive toward a better future.
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BlackRock Private Equity Partners
Princeton, United StatesBlackRock is a global asset manager and technology provider. Our purpose is to help more and more people experience financial well-being. We help millions of people invest to build savings that serve them throughout their lives. We make investing easier and more affordable. We advance sustainable investing because our conviction is it delivers better outcomes for investors. We contribute to a more resilient economy that benefits more people.
Together with our clients, we’re contributing to a more equitable and resilient world – today and for generations to come. That’s why, we’re asking bigger questions – of ourselves, our industry, and the world at large. Questions that challenge convention and give rise to new thinking. Because the bigger questions we ask, the bigger actions we can take.
Follow us for global insights shaping the economy, innovative thinking around the path to net zero and more information on culture and careers at BlackRock.
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Apollo Global Management
New York, United StatesApollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade credit to private equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes.
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Star Mountain Capital
New York, United States"Bringing large market expertise to smaller companies, Star Mountain’s philosophies include a data-driven and systematic approach to investing. Its long-term focus includes substantial investments in team, technology, brand and culture. Star Mountain’s complementary investment verticals and Collaborative Ecosystem® provide insights, relationships and resources to assist companies in maximizing value:
1. Providing senior and/or junior debt to established, growing small and medium-sized companies.
2. Investing minority or control equity capital into established, growing small and medium-sized companies.
3. Purchasing investments and LP positions from other investors in lower middle-market funds and companies.
4. Providing strategic LP capital (including separate accounts) to lower middle-market funds.
Star Mountain’s specialty is helping grow companies that generally have at least $15 million of revenue or under $50 million of EBITDA through organic and strategic initiatives such as acquisitions.
Team includes former Head of Credit Suisse Alternatives ($100 bn AUM), Chief Risk Officer GSO / Blackstone, Head of Leveraged Loan Capital Markets at Merrill Lynch and BAML (underwrote ~$50 bn in event driven financings), Co-Heads of ~$6 bn Merrill Lynch and BAML Private Equity, ~$11 bn Citigroup Private Equity and Merchant Banking Division of BNP Paribas and Head of Media & Communications Merchant, Investment and Corporate Banking at BMO. Investment professionals have an average of 20+ years of experience."
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Apollo Global Management
New York, United StatesApollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. To learn more, please visit www.apollo.com.
Nothing herein constitutes an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security or product of Apollo or any Apollo-managed fund.
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Oaktree Capital Management
Los Angeles, United StatesOaktree is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, with $193 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2024. The firm emphasizes an opportunistic, value-oriented and risk-controlled approach to investments in credit, private equity, real estate and listed equities. The firm has over 1,200 employees and offices in 23 cities worldwide.
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Pegasus Capital Advisors
Stamford, United StatesPegasus is a leading global private markets impact investment manager focusing on sustainability and health. As the first U.S. private equity fund manager accredited by the Green Climate Fund, we are dedicated to fostering sustainable growth while providing attractive returns for our investors. Founded in 1996, Pegasus has invested over USD 2.6 billion across five private equity funds
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