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Overview

Overview

Specialized investment teams leverage the strength of Morgan Stanley to provide clients with a diverse range of alternative investment strategies.

Key Differentiators

1

Structure

  • Highly specialized teams
  • True investment autonomy
  • Client-aligned incentives

2

Strength

  • Differentiated network
  • Global teams with niche expertise
  • Powerful global brand

3

Strategies

  • Across liquid alternatives and private markets
  • Offerings span liquidity spectrum and risk-return objectives
  • Vehicle types range from 1940 Act–Registered funds to semi-liquid funds and private placements

Our Alternatives Teams

Led by long-tenured investors, our specialized teams use disciplined processes and strive to provide strong long-term investment results.

Global Listed Real Assets Team
The Global Listed Real Assets team invests in the equity securities of publicly listed real estate and infrastructure companies that it views as offering the best value, relative to their underlying assets and growth prospects.
Morgan Stanley Private Equity Solutions Team
Morgan Stanley Private Equity Solutions team provides investors access to broadly diversified and thematic multi-manager portfolios, co-investments, impact investing strategies and custom solutions.
AIP Hedge Fund Team
The AIP Hedge Fund team delivers a broad range of portfolio solutions to a global client base. Their strategies include custom hedge fund portfolios and broadly diversified, opportunistic and strategy-specific funds.
Morgan Stanley Capital Partners

Morgan Stanley Capital Partners manages a middle-market private equity platform. The team has invested capital in a broad spectrum of industries for over two decades.

Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia

Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia invests primarily in highly structured minority investments and control buyouts in growth-oriented companies located throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital

Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital specializes in equity and credit investments in late-stage private companies that operate in the technology, healthcare, consumer, digital media and other high-growth sectors.

Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing

Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI) manages global value-add / opportunistic and regional core / core-plus real estate investment strategies. The team's experience encompasses a broad array of asset classes, geographic regions and investment themes across all phases of the real estate cycle.

Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners

Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners invests in a diverse range of infrastructure assets predominantly located in OECD countries. The team seeks to create value through active asset management and operational improvements.

Morgan Stanley India Infrastructure Partners

Morgan Stanley India Infrastructure focuses on proprietary, privately-sourced situations in Indian infrastructure. The team seeks to create value through a growth-oriented strategy focused on active asset management and operational improvements.

Morgan Stanley Private Credit

Morgan Stanley Private Credit invests in first and second lien debt; unitranche loans; mezzanine debt; and equity co-investments alongside controlling shareholders to support middle-market companies based in North America and Western Europe. The team seeks to create value as a long-term partner for owner-operated and private equity-backed businesses.

Morgan Stanley Energy Partners

Morgan Stanley Energy Partners makes control investments in energy companies primarily located in North America. The team focuses on the buyout and build-up of strategically attractive, established energy businesses across the energy value chain in partnership with best-in-class management teams.

Mesa West Capital
Mesa West Capital is a leading real estate private credit manager, originating commercial real estate loans secured by institutional properties throughout the U.S.
Morgan Stanley Tactical Value

Morgan Stanley Tactical Value is an investment platform targeting private, long-term and likely illiquid investments.

European Real Assets Private Credit Team
European Real Assets Private Credit invests in investment grade and value-add senior loans secured by European real estate assets.
AIP Alternative Lending Group
The AIP Alternative Lending Group specializes in making allocations to loans underwritten by fintech-driven alternative lending platforms, targeting multiple borrower types.
Morgan Stanley Next Level

Morgan Stanley Next Level is the impact-focused private equity business of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, focusing on privately negotiated equity and equity-related investments with impact.

Morgan Stanley Private Equity Secondaries Team
The Morgan Stanley (MS) Private Equity Secondaries team provides investors access to broadly diversified and thematic secondaries solutions.

Diversification does not eliminate the risk of loss. Alternative investment funds are often unregulated, are not subject to the same regulatory requirements as mutual funds, and are not required to provide periodic pricing or valuation information to investors. The investment strategies described in the preceding pages may not be suitable for your specific circumstances; accordingly, you should consult your own tax, legal or other advisors, at both the outset of any transaction and on an ongoing basis, to determine such suitability.

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