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A complex and ever-changing investment landscape provides challenge and purpose for our team.

Thought Pieces

Taking Stock of Hedged Equity: An Interview with Alex Moore, Head of GT Public Markets Team

Hedged equity is a multifaceted strategy. It serves as a way to amplify equity exposure with less risk than pure long equity strategies. Hedged equity pairs well with multi-strategy exposure in a defensive basket for investors with at least an intermediate time horizon — returns from the two strategies tend to ebb and flow, not necessarily in sync with each other. Finally, hedged equity has highly valued antifragile characteristics, meaning that the strategy can actually get stronger, especially during prolonged market drawdowns.

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Exploring Uncorrelated Strategies

While it is tempting to simply accept and enjoy the lofty returns the markets have provided in recent years, history and experience tell us it is unwise to ignore the risks that accompany the current market dynamics and economic realities. Here, we discuss how we're searching for and finding interesting strategies that can deliver returns regardless of the direction of the markets.

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Why Bother with Diversification?

So, why bother with all the complication of portfolios diversified over nine asset classes with active management and hedged strategies? We believe it comes down to one word – risk.

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Private Equity: Co-Investments

Our conviction lies in a private equity portfolio equally proportioned to i) buyouts and ii) venture capital (“VC”) & growth equity (“growth”), with supplemental exposure to both through iii) co-investments (“co-invests”). In this piece we discuss co-invests, a growing feature in our program and the industry broadly.

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The Role of Private Equity in Portfolios

Historically, private equity has produced returns in excess of public equities. Those results, coupled with other attractive features, such as tax efficiency, a broad and expanding market opportunity, and diversification benefits have led to private equity being a growing component of portfolios. Navigating this space requires deep experience, strong manager relationships, and a continuous presence.

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