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The needs of our clients inform everything we do. We are committed to delivering exceptional service and superior investment results.
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Solutions & Multi-Asset
The AIP Hedge Fund team delivers a broad range of portfolio solutions to a global client base. Their strategies include custom hedge fund portfolios and broadly diversified, opportunistic and strategy-specific funds.
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Solutions & Multi-Asset
The Applied Equity Advisors team uses a combination of quantitative models and stock-specific research to seek to identify companies with attractive valuations and competitive dividend yields to deliver a high quality portfolio.
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Solutions & Multi-Asset
The Global Balanced Risk Control (GBaR) team is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management's (MSIM) broader Global Multi-Asset capability. The team uses a top-down global asset allocation approach within a clearly-defined, risk-controlled framework, targeting an agreed level of risk. The GBaR strategy is highly flexible in its asset allocation, enabling portfolio managers to dynamically adjust positioning across equities, fixed income and cash, to maintain a stable risk profile.
The team seeks not only to enhance participation in rising markets, but also provide protection from volatile down markets. They also allocate tactically within asset classes, for example between equity regions and fixed income sub-asset classes with the aim of adding value.
The GBaR team manages a variety of portfolios to a range of risk targets, which may be further customised to meet client requirements including capital growth, income and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria.
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Solutions & Multi-Asset
The Global Multi-Asset team uses a top-down global macro approach to investing, offering a variety of multi-asset strategies.
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Solutions & Multi-Asset
The Managed Futures Team provides multi-manager and single-manager managed futures and currency strategies.
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Solutions & Multi-Asset
The Portfolio Solutions Group specializes in managing custom multi-asset portfolios, outsourced CIO programs and liquid alternative investment strategies.
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Real Assets
The Global Listed Real Assets team invests in the equity securities of publicly listed real estate and infrastructure companies that it views as offering the best value, relative to their underlying assets and growth prospects.
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Real Assets
Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners invests in a diverse range of infrastructure assets predominantly located in OECD countries. The team seeks to create value through active asset management and operational improvements.
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Real Assets
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI) manages global opportunistic and regional core real estate investment strategies. The team's experience encompasses a broad array of asset classes, geographic regions and investment themes across all phases of the real estate cycle.
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Active Fundamental Equity
The Active International Allocation team has followed a disciplined, consistent investment process since 1986. They believe that economic, political and business fundamentals are the main drivers of future investment returns.
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Active Fundamental Equity
Counterpoint Global makes long-term investments in unique companies whose market value can increase significantly for underlying fundamental reasons. Their portfolios are typically concentrated and differentiated from their benchmarks. Counterpoint Global consists of 24 people, including 15 investment professionals and two disruptive change researchers. The team’s culture fosters collaboration, creativity, continued development, and differentiated thinking.
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Active Fundamental Equity
The European Equity team uses active, fundamental, bottom-up stock selection to build a high-conviction portfolio that aims to deliver compelling long-term returns.
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Active Fundamental Equity
The Global Emerging Markets team bases its investment philosophy on proprietary research that shows how both country-level and stock-specific factors can drive risks and returns in emerging markets.
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Active Fundamental Equity
The International Equity team follows a disciplined investment process based on fundamental analysis and bottom-up stock selection. They believe that the best route to attractive long-term returns is through compounding and providing reduced downside participation.
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Active Fundamental Equity
The Japanese Equity team invests in stocks that it believes are undervalued but have a high likelihood of a positive price correction. Strategy implementation for the non Japanese Equity portfolio is delegated to our Japanese affiliate Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management Co., Ltd.
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Active Fundamental Equity
The Saudi Arabian Equity team uses a top-down, bottom-up investment process to identify Saudi Arabia listed stocks with strong earnings potential that are currently out of favor with the market. The team members are based in Riyadh.
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Private Credit & Equity
The AIP Private Markets team provides investors access to broadly diversified and thematic multi-manager portfolios, secondaries, co-investments, impact investing strategies and custom solutions.
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Private Credit & Equity
Morgan Stanley Capital Partners manages a middle-market private equity platform. The team has invested capital in a broad spectrum of industries for over two decades.
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Private Credit & Equity
Morgan Stanley Energy Partners makes control investments in energy companies primarily located in North America. The team focuses on the buyout and build-up of strategically attractive, established energy businesses across the energy value chain in partnership with best-in-class management teams.
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Private Credit & Equity
The Expansion Capital team manages a private equity platform targeting later-stage investments in technology, healthcare, consumer, digital media and other high-growth sectors.
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Private Credit & Equity
Morgan Stanley Private Credit invests in first and second lien debt; unitranche loans; mezzanine debt; and equity co-investments alongside controlling shareholders to support middle-market companies based in North America and Western Europe. The team seeks to create value as a long-term partner for owner-operated and private equity-backed businesses.
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Private Credit & Equity
Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia invests primarily in highly structured minority investments and control buyouts in growth-oriented companies located throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
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Private Credit & Equity
Morgan Stanley Tactical Value Investing is an investment platform targeting private, long-term and likely illiquid investments.
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Fixed Income
The Global Fixed Income team follows a seamless process with a global outlook. They seek to identify and capture the potential value in situations where the market's implied forecasts are extreme.
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Liquidity
The Global Liquidity team aims to effectively meet clients’ unique cash and working capital needs, offering a broad range of money market funds and customized separate account solutions.
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