Strategic Partnerships
Strategic Partnerships targets direct investments in alternative asset management businesses across next generation and established managers as well as broader private equity capabilities.
For over a decade, Wafra has been acquiring ownership stakes in both growth and established alternative investment firms, leveraging Wafra’s vast network of global partners and deep sector knowledge.
Next Generation Managers
Implemented through the Capital Constellation platform, Wafra seeks to partner with promising alternative asset management firms and the investor entrepreneurs who founded those businesses. Our accelerant capital seeks to create strategic added value for those alternative asset management firms while generating multiple sources of value for asset owners.
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Capital Constellation is a private equity strategy that provides growth capital to next generation private alternative asset management firms and takes minority participation in these businesses.
Premier Institutional Investors
The Capital Constellation platform is a collaborative asset owner network that brings together capital and expertise from some of the world’s premier institutional investors. Current asset owner partners include the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, New York State Common Retirement Fund, the Public Institution for Social Security of Kuwait, Railpen, Kuwait Investment Authority, Orange County Employees Retirement System and the Third Swedish National Pension Fund, among others, with investment management services provided by Wafra Inc.
The members of the Constellation network, who collectively manage over $1 trillion in AUM, have backed a platform that leverages Wafra’s ability to partner with talented investment teams to create aligned, substantial and lasting benefits for its asset owner members and the asset managers Constellation supports.
A Peer Partnership
Capital Constellation provides financial solutions and strategic added value for alternative asset management firms, while seeking to generate multiple sources of value for asset owners. Through its innovative structure, it has created a group of institutional investors that combines the perspectives, networks, and capital bases of those asset owner partners with a diversified portfolio of ownership interests in investment management firms that it believes will succeed and endure.
Established Managers
Wafra seeks to partner with established alternative asset managers, firms with many years of operating history and funds raised. This strategy creates a framework for long-term commitment by the principals to their businesses, aligning incentives while providing strategic support to creatively structured transactions that are attractive to all parties.
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