Exclusive Line of Sight
"Nimble minds perceive what others overlook."
- Leonardo da Vinci
ACI PLATFORM
Achieve differentiated risk-adjusted returns across every type of market condition.
Alternative Capital Investments (ACI) Platform allows access to hard-to-source opportunistic investments, uncorrelated assets, and structured trades with customized risk exposure through a discretionary and non-discretionary Special Class Co-Invest structure.
The Platform seeks to position investments across four business lines with a focus on protecting capital while achieving differentiated risk-adjusted cash returns across every type of market condition.
Positioned to Navigate the Horizon
Risk Management
We are risk-averse by nature and have managed ACI’s investments with this overlay across our portfolios since inception.
Correlation Management
We seek to dynamically manage correlation risk, directing investments across business lines, depending on changing macro and market environments.
Differentiated Access
We cultivate tight relationships with our investors, regularly exchanging ideas and deal introductions. We seek to provide our LPs with access to discretionary and nondiscretionary Co-Invest Special Class opportunities.
Origination Network
We collaborate with a diverse group of investment relationships, deal originators, LPs, and other close partners to exchange differentiated deal-sourcing opportunities.
Cash Returns
ACI routinely deploys gains against capital calls, distributing cash back to investors on gains recognized in the portfolio.
The Team
We are a nimble and sophisticated team led by founder John Guarino’s talent for seeking differentiated opportunities, and meticulous structuring of transactions that optimize risk profile.
Rare Access.
Rigorous Due Diligence across differentiated business lines.
$850MM+*
$7.5BB+*
Up to 200
2019
TRADES REVIEWED MONTHLY
ESTABLISHED
4
35%
DEALS REVIEWED MONTHLY
IN TRANSACTIONS
% OF DEAL FLOW
FROM LP NETWORK
BUSINESS LINES
*approximate numbers
$350MM*
AUM
ACI PLATFORM
Alternative Capital Investments Platform is designed to manage down side risk and has a focus on preserving capital at the core of our business.
Managing downside risk and preserving capital is at the core of our business.
Business Lines
We seek to invest in four selective subsectors of the public and private markets to generate meaningful, uncorrelated returns by participating in “off market,” idiosyncratic situations.
Private Market
We concentrate on opportunistic and secondary investments in mid-to-late stage pre-IPOs with short-duration risk and varying correlations to the public markets.
Structured Debt and Collateralized Lending
Our lending business has a strong focus on credit fundamentals, capacity, and collateral, for industry-agnostic, uncorrelated business opportunities.We use highly negotiated legal documents in our effort to protect ACI’s investments.
Public Markets
We focus on short-term hedging, equity trading, and structured product opportunities where we see market dislocation or asymmetry.
Mass Torts & Litigation Finance
We partner with the leading law firms in the litigation space for first-mover advantage on investments uncorrelated to broader economy and market conditions.
Distressed Assets
ACI seeks to take a strong fundamental approach to investing in distressed assets via special situations or event-driven opportunities in the lower and middle markets.
Strategies include credit trading, bespoke private credit, asset-based lending, distressed asset sales, non-process-oriented investments, re-org equity, trade claims, or other capital structure-focused opportunities.
Aligned Interests
CIO Commitment:
5% of raised AUM up to $15MM.
GP Commitment:
$25MM.
CORRELATION MIGRATION
Certain of our strategies have established trades across the four business lines and adjusted correlations based on ACI’s macro perspectives on the markets.
CORRELATION COMPOSITION OF PORTFOLIOS
