Alternative Funds

GILD Alternative Funds is a specialized alternative investment manager in Emerging Europe which serves both institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals. Baltic countries are the home markets of GILD, but the area of activities and investments extends to the CEE and CIS region. The key team behind GILD Alternative Funds started to work together in 1999. We have dedicated teams for managing our asset based investing and lending investments, private equity, and real estate investments. Additionally there is investor relations and Middle & Back Office support.

Assets under management in GILD Arbitrage, Emerging Europe multi-strategy hedge fund, GILD private equity and real estate funds, are around EUR 150 million. GILD active investment funds have provided investors with average annual net return of close to 14%.

GILD Alternative Funds is amongst the most experienced alternative investment managers in the region specializing in tailored and direct investments. We have a successful track record in skill-based strategies, asset-based lending and investing, private equity investments, merchant banking deals, as well as in real estate financing. While offering high risk-adjusted returns, our objective is to be independent of equity and bond markets, therefore meeting the diverse needs of our clients.

In May 2008, GILD Alternative Funds was accepted as the first member from the Baltics to the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA, www.aima.org). In Sept 2008, GILD Real Estate became a member of the European Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles (INREV, www.inrev.org).

GILD has licences for managing risk capital and real estate funds. Strategically we aim to establish only registered funds in the future to provide better transparency and credibility for our investors.