Our approach combines superior due diligence with the ability to position our firm and our clients as an attractive "investor of choice" for even the most selective fund management teams in private equity.

GSA’s investment philosophy and approach to risk control is based on two fundamental principles:


Disciplined Diversification
Client portfolios are carefully constructed to spread risk across strategies, sectors, time and geographies. We then believe it is important to stick to our diversification model and play through cycles as market timers rarely outperform over the long term. However, we exercise informed diversification and will take educated, contrarian positions on the edges of the portfolio based on market conditions and trends.


Superb Manager Selection
Relative to most assets classes, the best private equity fund managers show both significantly better returns than the industry average, as well as a tendency for these returns to persist over time. GSA’s platform of fund relationships provides our clients access to highest performing teams. At the same time, it is critical to understand dynamics within a team and assess their recent unrealized performance and the fit of their strategy with the market environment. Our due diligence is led by experienced partners with large networks of relationships for independent reference checks and the judgment to invest confidently in a newer team as well as stop investing with a well established team if we believe they will not be competitive going forward.

Learn more about our investment approach in the Fund Managers section.