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 65% 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, high yield, and 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.

The quantitative team is led by Dr. Roberto Croce and Nathan Rowader out of both Houston and San Francisco offices. In Houston, Dr. Croce leads the team in research and development of quantitative alternative strategies. In San Francisco, Nathan oversees the asset allocation strategies. Together, the team implements a disciplined, systematic approach towards allocating risk exposure in portfolio construction. The strategies adaptively target volatility to diversify away from the typical equity risk that dominates most portfolios.

Led by David Ruff, the equity team is comprised of individuals with extensive specialized investment knowledge. Since 1999, the team has used their unique Dividend Signal Strategy® approach to seek attractive yield and uncover growth potential around the globe, targeting companies offering the triple play: an attractive dividend, dividend growth and price-appreciation potential.

Broadmark Asset Management co-CEO and CIO Christopher Guptill and co-CEO Ricardo Cortez along with Salient chief investment strategist Ben Hunt oversee highly-adaptive long/short equity strategies that aim to lower the impact of equity volatility and preserve capital during down markets.

Portfolio manager David Hammer, leads his New York-based team from PIMCO to sub-advise a long/short credit strategy for Salient. The team’s ability to short bonds and employ a variety of hedging techniques provides the strategy the opportunity to offer income and adaptability to portfolios.

Salient has partnered with Henry James International Management 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.