Investment Manager Relationships
We view our investment managers as valued partners in our management of the University of Toronto’s assets.
All external investment managers engaged by UTAM with more than CAD $1 million invested in aggregate on behalf of UTAM’s client portfolios are listed on this page, with the exception of a small number of managers that have requested that their names not be disclosed.
For core manager relationships (generally those with larger allocations), we have provided the location of the manager’s main office/headquarters, the date of UTAM’s first investment and a description of the manager. All other managers are listed at the bottom of the page.
AS OF JANUARY 1, 2021

AGG Capital Management
AGG Capital Management (AGGCM) is a fund management business focused on high-value segments of the European credit and real estate markets. AGGCM is part of the Arrow Global Group which was founded in 2005 and went public in 2013. Arrow Global is a leading European investor and asset manager in the non-performing and non-core assets sector.

Arbour Lane Capital Management
Founded in 2016, Arbour Lane Capital Management is a private registered investment advisor focused primarily on opportunistic credit and special situation investments.

Ares Management
Founded in 1997, Ares is a publicly traded, global alternative asset manager. Ares seeks to deliver attractive performance to its investor base across its investment groups and strategies, including credit, private equity and real estate.

Arrowstreet Capital
Founded in 1999, Arrowstreet invests in public equity securities globally using a systematic investment process. Arrowstreet believes that markets are inefficient, and that a well-conceived investment process can generate superior risk adjusted returns. Furthermore, Arrowstreet believes that for information to be applicable in an active investment process it must be both relevant to share prices and slowly reflected in share prices.

Artisan Partners
Founded in 1994, Artisan is a global investment management firm that provides a broad range of value-added investment strategies in growing asset classes to clients around the world. The firm is committed to attracting experienced, disciplined investment professionals to manage client assets. Artisan’s autonomous investment teams oversee a range of investment strategies across multiple asset classes.

Atalaya Capital Management
Founded in 2006, Atalaya focuses on making credit and special situation investments in three principal asset classes: real estate, corporate, and specialty finance.

Bayview Asset Management
Founded in 1993, Bayview is a mortgage investment firm focused on investments in mortgage credit, including whole loans, mortgage-backed securities, mortgage servicing rights, and mortgage-related equities.

Beacon Capital Partners
Founded in 1998, Beacon is a private real estate investment firm focused on real estate development, ownership and management. Beacon invests in high-quality office properties in core urban markets in the US with highly-educated workforces. Beacon’s approach transforms these properties for today’s tenants.

Bridgewater Associates
Founded in 1975, Bridgewater is focused on understanding how the world works. The firm has built a strong long-term track record by having a deep understanding of the global economy and financial markets, and translating that understanding into investment portfolios.

Brookfield Asset Management
Founded in 1899, Brookfield is a global alternative asset manager, focused on investing in long-life, high-quality assets across real estate, infrastructure, and private equity. Brookfield’s investments include a portfolio of office properties, an infrastructure business, and a pure-play renewable power business.

Capital Fund Management
Founded in 1991, Capital Fund Management is an investment management firm whose strategies are based on a quantitative and systematic approach to financial markets. Their culture blends a mixture of the scientific backgrounds of researchers and IT engineers, supported by the firm’s corporate team.

CIFC Asset Management
CIFC is a global credit manager founded in 2005. CIFC focuses across four disciplines — CLOs, structured credit, corporate credit and opportunistic credit.

Citadel
Founded in 1990, Citadel is a global investment firm built around investment talent, risk management and technology. For a quarter of a century, Citadel’s strategies have delivered meaningful and measurable results to top-tier investors around the world.

Clearlake Capital Group
Clearlake Capital Group is a leading private investment firm founded in 2006. With a sector-focused approach, the firm seeks to partner with world-class management teams by providing patient, long-term capital to dynamic businesses that can benefit from Clearlake’s operational improvement approach, O.P.S.® The firm’s core target sectors are technology, industrials and consumer. Clearlake currently has approximately $25 billion of assets under management and its senior investment principals have led or co-led over 200 investments.

Conundrum Capital Corporation
Founded in 2000, Conundrum targets under-valued and under-performing real estate assets in select markets across Canada. The firm employs strategic capital improvements and professional asset and property management to enhance cash flows and increase value, enabling the profitable disposition of assets.

Crestline Investors
Founded in 1997, Crestline Investors is an institutional alternative investment management firm specializing in credit and opportunistic investments, including financing and restructuring solutions for mature private equity funds. In addition, the firm manages a multi-PM equity market-neutral hedge fund, and provides beta and hedging solutions for institutional clients.

CRG
Founded in 2003, CRG is a healthcare-focused investment firm. CRG provides growth capital in the form of long-term debt and equity to support innovative, commercial-stage healthcare companies that address large, unmet medical needs. The firm invests across the healthcare spectrum, including: medical devices, biopharmaceuticals, tools & diagnostics, services and information technology.

Egerton Capital
Founded in 1994, Egerton is an independent investment management firm that manages two strategies (equity long/short and equity long-only) for a diversified client base. Egerton employs a fundamental, bottom-up, research-intensive approach to stock selection. The firm’s investment objective is to achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns over time well in excess of equity market indices by adding significant value through stock selection. The investment universe is liquid, large-cap equities and the portfolio is invested across all major geographies, sectors and industry groups.

EMK Capital
Founded in 2015, EMK Capital is an independent private equity firm based in London, United Kingdom. EMK is focused on investing in businesses where it can support management teams in achieving transformational growth and change.

Flowering Tree Investment Management Pte. Ltd.
Founded in 2008, Flowering Tree follows a fundamental investment process to manage long only and long-short equity funds that are focused on Asia ex-Japan markets and companies.

Fourth Sail Capital
Founded in 2019 as a spin-out from an established emerging markets asset management firm, Fourth Sail Capital is a boutique asset manager focused on investment opportunities throughout Latin America. Fourth Sail employs a rigorous fundamental bottom-up investment approach, but also follows local and global macroeconomics and politics closely in order to manage downside risks.

FPA
FPA is an independent institutional money management firm, employing a disciplined approach to value investing, prudently seeking superior long-term returns while maintaining a focus on capital preservation.

Lansdowne Partners
Founded in 1998, Lansdowne’s investment philosophy is predicated on generating consistent, absolute risk-adjusted returns, through the use of exceptional investment talent within a leading-edge operational infrastructure. Central to the firm’s investment philosophy is a rigorous process of fundamental research. The research process includes meeting with company management, as well as analysis of publicly available information and proprietary and independent research.

Marshall Wace
Founded in 1997, Marshall Wace is a global alternative investment manager specializing in long/short equity strategies. Marshall Wace combines fundamental investing with systematic and quantitative strategies to deliver returns from a range of investment solutions.

Origami Capital Partners
Founded in 2008, Origami is focused on acquiring private assets trapped in complex structures, providing patient, flexible solutions to owners who are seeking liquidity. The firm invests globally, but focusses primarily on assets in North America and Europe.

PAG
Founded in 2002, PAG is one of Asia’s largest alternative investment firms. PAG is focused on private equity, real estate, absolute return and private debt strategies.

RP Investment Advisors
Founded in 2009, RP is an alternative fixed income manager specializing in corporate bonds and active interest-rate risk management. The firm seeks to generate positive returns in all markets with a focus on long-term capital preservation and growth.

RWC Partners
Founded in 2000, RWC is an independent investment manager. RWC believes that its fund managers should have investment autonomy, be focused on real risks and target strong total returns over the long-term. Portfolio managers have full accountability for their decisions in an environment which ensures they are well-supported and focused on their investment process.

Sculptor Capital Management
Sculptor Capital Management is a leading alternative asset manager serving a diverse global investor base with global investment solutions across multi-strategy, credit and real estate. Sculptor’s track record of generating attractive risk-adjusted returns is rooted in a distinctive investment process that combines deep fundamental research, an opportunistic approach to allocating capital and fully integrated risk management. With a global team operating from offices in New York, London, Hong Kong and Shanghai, Sculptor’s collaborative culture brings to bear its diverse resources and perspectives to drive performance.

Select Equity Group
Founded in 1990, Select Equity Group manages approximately $26 billion across long/short and long-only equity strategies that invest in companies across geographies and market capitalizations. The Firm was founded on the premise that rigorous, independent research and disciplined investing will generate superior returns. Select Equity is employee owned and employs a research team of over 55 professionals, including a field research division of former financial journalists and sourcing specialists.

Springs Capital
Founded in 2007, Springs is an alternative investment manager that specializes in investing in Chinese listed companies. The firm’s investment style is contrarian bottom-up stock picking based on rigorous research in out-of-favor sectors. The firm typically runs a concentrated portfolio of high conviction names.

StepStone
Founded in 2006, StepStone is a private markets firm that creates customized portfolios using a disciplined, research-focused approach that integrates primaries, secondaries, and co-investments across private market asset classes.

TD Asset Management
Founded in 1987, TD Asset Management, a member of TD Bank Group, is an investment management firm that offers investment solutions to corporations, pension funds, endowments, foundations and individual investors.

Triton Partners
Founded in 1997, Triton is an investment firm that invests in the business services, consumer, health and industrial sectors, primarily in businesses headquartered in Europe. Triton focuses on companies with the potential to create sustainable, long-term value through changing economic cycles.

Trustbridge Partners
Founded in 2006, Trustbridge is a growth equity investor that seeks to develop a fundamental understanding of long-term trends in society, consumer behaviour, and technology. The firm focuses on high-quality growth opportunities in China within the TMT, consumer, and healthcare sectors, where they believe their experience and industry relationships generate unique insights and give their portfolio companies a competitive edge.

Two Sigma
Two Sigma specializes in process-driven, systematic investment management, generally by employing quantitative analysis in evaluating prospective investments.

Tybourne Capital Management
Founded in 2011, Tybourne is an independent investment firm that employs a fundamental, research-driven approach across equity long-short and equity long-only strategies. Tybourne invests globally, with a focus in Asia, and on four sectors: Consumer, Financials, Industrials and TMT.

Voloridge Investment Management
Voloridge Investment Management is a quantitative investment manager founded by David Vogel in 2009. The firm applies artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to financial markets and builds systematic models that are driven by alphas associated with climate-related financial data and trends.
Other Partners
- Advent International
- Black Diamond Capital Management
- Blackstone
- Centerbridge Partners
- Darby Private Equity
- Elm Park Capital Management
- Europa Capital
- Goldman Sachs Asset Management
- Hayfin Capital Management
- Knightsbridge Advisers
- Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
- MBK Partners
- Morgan Stanley Infrastructure
- Oaktree Capital Management
- Onex Partners
- Pantheon
- Sanderling Venture Partners
- Shoreline Capital
- Tech Capital Partners
- The Catalyst Capital Group
- W.L. Ross & Co
- Wolfensohn Fund Management