Matthew William Sharp

VGI is an active, long-term manager aiming to achieve maximum capital appreciation while mitigating general market risk by employing a hedged approach and taking short and long positions. The firm performs fundamental analysis to select investments primarily in public equity securities, but also in private equity and other financial instruments. They typically invest in companies located around the world that operate in a wide range of industries.

The Carlyle Group focuses on companies located across the globe. The firm targets companies operating across a broad range of sectors and industries. It provides financing for buyouts and growth stage capital requirements.[[ [[Carlyle Group reorganized its operating segments on January 8, 2021, by combining Corporate Private Equity and Real Assets into a single segment called - The Carlyle Group (Global Private Equity).

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Credit Suisse Strategic Partners is Credit Suisse's exclusive, dedicated, secondary private equity group. The group seeks capital appreciation through the purchase of secondary interests in high quality private equity funds from investors seeking liquidity on a fair, timely and confidential basis. They also manage parallel strategies dedicated to investing in real estate and venture capital in the secondary market.

Montanova employs a global long/short equity strategy and utilizes a fundamental bottom-up approach to stock selection. The firm generally uses (1) equities; (2) futures; (3) exchange-traded funds (ETFs); and (4) equity options to express its investment opinion. They prefer to express an investment opinion in equity security and use options to hedge unexpected risk in the security or to enhance its view in a cost-efficient manner. The firm may use ETFs and futures to hedge unwanted industry or market exposure.