Investment Strategies - Offering a broad range of alternative investment opportunities
Our Platforms
We evaluate investment opportunities from multiple perspectives with the goal of producing consistent absolute returns under varying market conditions.
Emerging Markets
Private Equity
Liquid Trading
Our liquid trading strategies are diversified by style, ranging from relative value strategies that seek to capture structural inefficiencies and mispricings to macro directional strategies that focus on trending and volatile markets. These strategies have evolved over 26 years and are deployed across fixed income, equity, currency, and commodity markets.
Emerging Markets
Our emerging markets platform is based on four main pillars: local markets and fx trading, sovereign fixed income trading, equities trading, and emerging market corporate credit trading. Black River has a worldwide network of offices with staff on the ground in Caracas, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Moscow, New Delhi, and Shanghai. This on the ground presence of national personnel is unique and provides for valuable insights into the local markets. Black River's local perspective coupled with its global platform and a long history of trading emerging markets (since the 1980s) provides a deep understanding of the key commodity, economic and political drivers of emerging market valuations. Strategies are both directional and relative value, with a strong focus on macroeconomic fundamentals and political assessments.
Private Equity
Our private equity activities seek to successfully take advantage of the dynamic landscape of global equity investing and generate attractive, long-term risk-adjusted returns through investments in four core natural resource-related sectors: (i) agriculture; (ii) food; (iii) clean energy and sustainability; and (iv) metals and mining. Our investment activities rely on an experienced, global investment team and a long history and understanding of commodities and related industries in both developed and emerging markets. This team deploys prudent investing approaches and risk management processes that are the cornerstone of all Black River funds. Our team leverages the Black River platform to not only source, assess and manage investments, but also to impact successful outcomes. We identify management teams, developers and entrepreneurs capable of capturing value in transitional environments due to macroeconomic factors, regulatory or political change, and globalization. A range of securities and structures are considered including expansion capital, recapitalizations, structured equity and credit/project finance.