Asset Manager Profiles
Learn more about some of the firms creating alternative investing strategies to strengthen today’s investment portfolios
Ashford Securities
Ashford Securities LLC is a managing broker/dealer and FINRA member firm. Our parent company is Ashford Inc. (AINC) – a publicly-traded real estate asset manager and service provider. Ashford Securities LLC is focused on the distribution of alternative investment products through financial intermediaries. Our goal is to offer highly differentiated investment solutions that intend to provide investors with diversification, income, and attractive returns. We pursue this goal through the thoughtful design of investment products, providing excellent customer service, and building long term relationships with all of our stakeholders.
Cantor Fitzgerald
With over 12,500 employees, Cantor Fitzgerald is a leading global financial services and real estate investment firm at the forefront of financial and technological innovation and has been a proven and resilient leader for over 75 years. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. is a preeminent investment bank serving more than 7,000 institutional clients around the world, recognized for its strengths in fixed income and equity capital markets, investment banking, prime brokerage, commercial real estate, and infrastructure.
Cottonwood
Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Cottonwood is a fully integrated real estate company focused exclusively on the multifamily asset class. Cottonwood has significant experience in multifamily acquisitions, ownership, development and structured investments, and is led by a core executive management team with over 200 years of combined industry related experience and has spent an average of the past 14 years together working on the day to day strategy of the company. Cottonwood invests primarily in major metropolitan markets throughout the U.S. and currently manages over 12,300 apartment units, representing approximately $3.5 billion in assets under management.
Gladstone Securities
Gladstone Securities provides preferred stock opportunities for both farmland and commercial real estate alternative investments. We specialize in capital raising and strategic advisory services for affiliated funds of Gladstone Management. Our team has a deep breadth of knowledge and expertise. With more than 20 years of operations we have a proven track record of providing consistent income and helping clients protect their wealth.
GTIS Partners
GTIS Partners is a leading real estate investment firm in the Americas, headquartered in New York with offices in São Paulo, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Charlotte, Phoenix, Dallas, Paris and Munich. GTIS Partners looks for markets and locations that have strong fundamental drivers such as job and income growth, better quality of life and a business-friendly environment. In those carefully selected markets and locations, we bring capital and expertise to create or enhance the physical built environment that can transform communities. We see communities and locations not for what they are but what they could be. On that journey, we work with best-in-class planners, architects and builders to deliver results.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management
In a fast-moving and increasingly complex global economy, our success depends on how faithfully we adhere to our core principles: delivering exceptional client service, acting with integrity and responsibility and supporting the growth of our employees. We are a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.6 trillion and operations worldwide. We operate in over 100 countries with more than 240,000 employees worldwide. With a legacy dating back to 1799, we have demonstrated leadership in times of economic growth and instability.
Nexpoint
Based in Dallas, Texas, NexPoint is a leading alternative investment advisor focused on delivering best-in-class investment offerings to investors. Its product suite covers a range of vehicles, including publicly-traded REITs, real estate private placements, 1031 exchange/DSTs, closed-end funds, a business development company (BDC), and interval funds. NexPoint is a multibillion-dollar investment platform that serves both retail and institutional investors worldwide. The company’s areas of expertise include real estate across multiple sectors, private equity, public equities, and insurance/annuities.
Sealy & Company
Sealy & Company, founded in 1946, is a recognized leader in acquiring, developing, and redeveloping industrial properties such as warehouses, distribution centers, e-commerce fulfillment centers, industrial/flex, and other industrial properties. As a fully integrated commercial real estate investment and operating company, Sealy delivers institutional quality investments for high net worth individuals and institutional investors. The combination of Sealy’s robust operating platform, proven investment strategy, and experienced real estate management professionals serve to maximize the value creation and returns for investors along every step of the investment process.
TradeBacked
TradeBacked is a specialty finance firm that provides short-term inventory-backed liquidity to International cash-flow-positive SMEs/businesses. We are a relationship-driven partner, providing consistent returns to investors with as low as one-year lock-in.
Bluerock
Bluerock is a leading institutional alternative asset manager based in New York with regional offices across the U.S. Bluerock principals have a collective 100+ years of investing experience with more than $120 billion real estate and capital markets experience and manage multiple well-recognized real estate private and public company platforms. Today, Bluerock has more than $15 billion in acquired and managed assets and offers a complementary suite of public and private investment programs, with both short and long-term goals, to individual investors seeking solutions aimed at providing predictable income, capital growth, and tax benefits.
CIM
CIM is a community-focused real estate and infrastructure owner, operator, lender and developer. Since 1994, CIM has sought to create value in projects and positively impact the lives of people in communities across the Americas by delivering more than $60 billion of essential real estate and infrastructure projects. CIM’s diverse team of experts applies its broad knowledge and disciplined approach through hands-on management of real assets from due diligence to operations through disposition. CIM strives to make a meaningful difference in the world by executing key environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives and enhancing each community in which it invests. For more information, visit www.cimgroup.com.
ExchangeRight
ExchangeRight pursues its passion to empower people to be secure, free, and generous by providing REIT, fund, and 1031 DST portfolios that target secure capital, stable income, and strategic exits. The company strategically syndicates net-leased portfolios of assets backed primarily by investment-grade corporations that successfully operate in the necessity-based retail and healthcare industries, as well as diversified value-add portfolios of inline and outparcel retail spaces shadow-anchored by strong-performing grocery tenants. Please visit www.exchangeright.com for more information./p>
Gold Leaf Farming
Gold Leaf Farming is a hybrid farming/investment company. We acquire and operate specialty farmland on behalf of investors. Specialty farmland is an excellent place to invest capital as it offers investors cash flow, appreciation, tax benefits and relative lack of correlation with other asset classes.
Inland Real Estate Investment Corporation
Inland Real Estate Investment Corporation (“Inland Investments”) is a sponsor of alternative public and private real estate securities and provides opportunities for individuals to invest in real estate programs. Inland Investments is a part of The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc. Established in 1968, Inland was formed by four Chicago Public School teachers: Dan Goodwin, Bob Baum, Joe Cosenza and Bob Parks. Their first investors were other teachers, family members and friends. This personal connection and responsibility to investors created a culture of putting stockholders first, which endures today across Inland’s business entities.
Leitbox Storage Partners
Leitbox Storage Partners (“Leitbox”) is a real estate investment company that develops and acquires self storage (often with mixed use & retail integration) in primary and secondary markets. The company employs a “Market Up” strategy, tailoring its real estate strategy to each particular project. Specifically, Leitbox’s real estate professionals determine which approach: repeatable prototype vertical development, mixed-use development, value-add acquisitions, or retail conversions, is the best strategy for the submarket. Leitbox uses proprietary site selection data analytics to increase occupancy outcomes and reduce the time required for site selection analysis.
Overmoon
Overmoon is revolutionizing the vacation rental industry with proprietary technology and institutional management. In the process, Overmoon is allowing retail investors to access this real estate asset class through a portfolio of professionally designed and managed homes powered by a technology platform.
StratCap
StratCap is a privately-held, global alternative investment management platform committed to providing access to dynamic asset classes and highly-experienced investment professionals in order to provide clients with attractive risk-adjusted returns. The company is focused on a wide range of digital economy investments with an emphasis on digital infrastructure, sustainability, and technology-centric sectors. StratCap strives to create investment opportunities with superior management teams, cutting-edge asset classes and distinct product structures that can help provide durable income, growth potential, reduced volatility and low correlation to traditional markets.
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