Private Equity
Buyout and growth investments through top-tier managers, with a focus on resilient, cash-generative businesses.
Division 02 · Alternative Assets
Diversification with purpose.
A focused programme of private markets and specialist strategies that broadens the family’s sources of return and strengthens the resilience of the overall portfolio.
Why alternatives
Real assets build the base. Alternatives broaden the horizon.
Our Alternative Assets division was created to diversify a portfolio built on real estate, giving the family access to different economic drivers, geographies and return profiles.
We invest through carefully selected fund managers and, increasingly, directly alongside them. As a long-term, flexible investor with no external stakeholders, we can be a reliable partner to managers, commit at attractive points in the cycle and take advantage of the illiquidity premium that private markets offer.
Strategies
Six strategies, one portfolio view.
Each strategy has a defined role in the overall portfolio, whether that is growth, income, inflation protection or liquidity.
Private Credit
Senior and asset-backed lending strategies that deliver contractual income and downside protection.
Infrastructure
Energy transition, digital and transport infrastructure: essential assets with long-dated, inflation-linked cash flows.
Venture & Growth
Selective exposure to innovation, including technology businesses building in the UAE and the wider region.
Direct Co-Investments
Investing directly alongside trusted sponsors, with greater control over exposure and improved fee efficiency.
Liquid Alternatives
Diversifying hedge-fund and absolute-return strategies that provide liquidity and low correlation to real assets.
How we allocate
Guided by clear principles.
Portfolio construction is overseen by our Investment Committee and reviewed regularly against the family’s objectives, liquidity needs and risk appetite.
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Complement, don’t compete
Alternatives are sized and selected to diversify the family’s real estate exposure across sectors, geographies and return drivers.
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Partner with the best
We back experienced managers with proven, repeatable processes, and build relationships that span multiple fund cycles.
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Align interests
We prefer structures that reward performance, keep fees fair and give us visibility into underlying investments.
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Pace commitments
Disciplined vintage-year diversification and liquidity planning ensure we can commit consistently through every cycle.
For managers & co-investors
A long-term partner, not just an allocator.
We aim to be among our managers’ most valued relationships: responsive, informed and committed across multiple vintages.
- Flexible commitment sizes and fast, well-organised decision making
- Appetite for co-investment and bespoke separately managed accounts
- Local insight and network across Abu Dhabi and the GCC
- Patient capital without fixed fund horizons
Get in touch
Exploring a partnership?
We welcome introductions from fund managers, sponsors and co-investors whose strategies align with our long-term approach.
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