Matthew Crandall Gilman

Functions as a College/University

Starwood Real Estate Securities shorts REITS on the fundamentals if their stock price is expensive relative to their asset value or balance sheet constraints that might cause them to cut dividends. The firm takes a bottom-up approach and focuses on a company's ability to grow its value. They consider the company's business model, its geographic exposure, its balance sheet and its management. The firm attempts to invest in companies trading for less than what Starwood believes they are worth but that also have solid growth potential. With this approach, they seek to be protected on the downside by investing in what they believe to be a discount to current value while hoping to participate in anticipated upside growth. The firm does not specifically look for buyout candidates, but the companies in which they invest are sometimes involved in mergers or buyouts. They invest in hotel, apartment and office properties in geographic areas where companies are experiencing strong internal growth. They favor the East and West Coast regions, New York, Southern California, Washington DC and parts of Florida.

Hill Winds seeks to achieve high risk-adjusted returns with low correlations to traditional investments through the management of a portfolio of long and short equity investments and implementing a market neutral strategy in REITs and real estate-related public securities. The firm identifies long and short investment ideas through its investment process, which emphasizes detailed analysis of company and sector fundamentals.

North Rock allocates capital across a diversified set of relative value fundamental and quantitative equity-focused portfolio manager teams (or PM Teams). The firm seeks PM Teams that derive their return primarily from idiosyncratic exposure while generally minimizing overall market and factor exposure. Their rigorous bottom-up risk management framework emphasizes real-time risk monitoring, while defined drawdown triggers and contractual investment guidelines and restrictions seek to reinforce strict control of market risk.