Parag Bapna

Farallon seeks investments across asset classes and around the world through a process of bottom-up fundamental research and analysis emphasizing capital preservation. Their investment strategies include Credit Investments, Long/Short Equity, Merger Arbitrage, Risk Arbitrage, Real Estate Investments and Direct Investments. Investment ideas compete for capital based on in-depth, critical assessment of specific risks and rewards. Risk is monitored and managed through rigorous and thorough analysis of each investment and, at the portfolio level, through risk management analytics and overlay and tail-risk hedging.

Penn Office of Investments’ endowment is invested in the Associated Investments Fund (AIF), a pooled investment vehicle in which the many individual endowments and trusts hold units. The Office of Investments manages the AIF. A distinguished Investment Board, consisting of Penn alumni and University leadership, oversees the activities of the Office. They seek to share the University’s time horizon with their partners, providing them with stable, patient, and contrarian long-term capital. In both public and private markets, Penn Office of Investments views investments as the ownership of stakes in underlying businesses. They evaluate investments based upon the fundamental value created by the businesses over time, not by short-term performance relative to a benchmark.

Functions as a College/University

Farallon Capital invests in private and public companies located across the globe. The firm targets companies operating across a broad range of sectors and industries. It provides financing for buyout capital requirements.