The Houston-based MLP Team is led by seasoned MLP portfolio managers Greg Reid and Ted Gardner and director of research Parag Sanghani. Houston is the home for many MLPs. In fact, corporate headquarters for 51% of the total market capitalization of the midstream MLP universe is within minutes of our offices. Salient’s MLP strategies are designed to provide the opportunity to potentially capture attractive total returns driven by a combination of distribution yield plus prospective distribution growth. MLP returns have historically had a low correlation to the S&P 500, REITs, and high yield bonds.

With over two decades of experience, Joel Beam leads a San Francisco-based team that oversees a suite of real estate strategies. The products are designed to offer access to different areas of the real estate investment trust market while also providing income, diversification and hedging capabilities.

Broadmark Asset Management, LLC co-CEO and CIO Christopher Guptill and co-CEO Ricardo Cortez oversee highly-adaptive long/short equity strategies that aim to lower the impact of equity volatility and preserve capital during down markets.

Salient has partnered with Henry James International Management, Inc. to sub-advise an international small cap companies strategy. Led by Jim O’Leary and Aidan O’Leary, this New York-based team utilizes a high-conviction investment philosophy that combines a bottom-up quantitative and fundamental analysis system with a top-down risk mitigating country allocation system. The combined bottom-up stock picking system and top-down country ranking system result in a lower turnover portfolio that overweights higher ranked, fundamentally strong stocks and countries that they believe are positioned for stock appreciation.

Bill Enszer oversees Salient’s private markets strategies, which includes his role as portfolio manager over fund-of-funds portfolios as well as providing advisory services on private investments for the firm’s clients. Salient is an active investor in private equity, niche strategies and select co-investments, along with privately-held credit, real estate, energy and venture capital investments. Bill manages all aspects of the investment process, including research, sourcing, due diligence, portfolio construction, and portfolio monitoring.

Founded in 2010 by energy industry veteran Kathryn S. MacAskie, Zarvona Energy, LLC (“Zarvona”) is a privately held independent oil & gas production and acquisition company headquartered in Houston, Texas. In 2011, Zarvona entered into a joint venture with Salient to lead an effort to acquire, further develop, and produce mature, long-lived oil and gas assets. Zarvona and its affiliates currently own interests in operated oil and gas fields in West Texas and western Oklahoma, and non-operated fields through Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.

The core of Salient’s management team has worked together in a variety of capacities for nearly 20 years. We formalized our working relationships by banding together in 2002 to form Salient. As you can see in our biographies below, we are a diverse group of individuals with a broad array of skills who share a common set of values. Most importantly we are fueled by a collective mission to educate our clients and innovate investment solutions that help them meet their financial goals.