Max Cascante

First Reserve invests in middle market energy companies located in North America and Europe. The firm targets companies operating in the fields of specialty services, engineered products, logistics & distribution, critical resources and value-added infrastructure. It provides financing for later stages and buyouts with an investment size ranging from USD 100 - 500 million. It also makes co-investments.

DW seeks high absolute returns from niche strategies within the real estate debt universe. The firm buys bonds and originates loans in strategies where it has a portfolio manager and team with extensive experience in the underlying investments through various cycles. While they trade heavily in US markets, DW may also trade globally, typically concentrating in developed markets.

Provides brokerage services

Functions as a College/University

BCM specializes in a wide range of global investment strategies in both the stock and bond markets.

Castle Hook utilizes a global opportunistic long/short strategy which seeks to marry a macro-approach to analyzing markets and economies with a bottoms-up analytical framework for security selection. Their investment philosophy is based upon a belief that top-down macroeconomic analysis and bottom-up security analysis should not be two distinct processes. The firm seeks to invest across all asset classes, geographies and sectors and expects to have a heavy focus on individual long/short equity, credit, and commodity selection in addition to exposure to foreign exchange, interest rates, and other products.