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About Us
GS Fund Holdings is a global systematic investment manager dedicated to building enduring partnerships and delivering sustainable outcomes. Founded by a group of trading veterans—including professional specialists, expert market strategists, and seasoned analysts—our firm brings deep financial market expertise to every investment decision. Operating locally in the United Kingdom, United States, and Europe since 2004, GS Fund Holdings expanded globally in 2010, making our innovative investment programs accessible to investors around the world.
We combine traditional and alternative investments to offer a robust and flexible platform tailored to meet today’s dynamic market needs. Our centralized research team develops advanced quantitative techniques to uncover market opportunities, which are implemented through a disciplined framework to provide efficient exposures. With strong infrastructure and top-tier investment professionals, we deliver the scale of a large asset management firm along with the agility of a specialized investment platform. As financial technologies continue to evolve, GS Fund Holdings remains at the forefront of innovation. We were among the first to recognize the transformative potential of cryptocurrencies and digital payments. Our team actively monitors developments in the digital currency space and adapts our strategies in alignment with market changes, ensuring that our clients benefit from forward-looking investment solutions.
Our Feature
As the primary investing area within GS Fund Holdings, we deliver investment and advisory services for some of the world’s leading institutions, financial advisors and individuals, drawing from our deeply connected global network and tailored expert insights, across regions and markets.
We integrate environmental, social and governance information into our analysis and decision-making across our investment teams and business lines.
We are active stewards of the entities in which we invest; this goes hand-in-hand with our active investment approach.
ESG is ingrained in our business activities through our corporate responsibility program. This includes our Barings Social Impact philanthropic program, as well as our focus on diversity, equity and inclusion across our business.
Our dedicated resources help develop and deliver our sustainability and ESG strategy, policy, partnerships, research, training and reporting.
We are a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment, a member of the United Nations Global Compact and Climate Action 100+, and public supporters of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures. We work to advance the missions of these industry partnerships.
Our Sustainability Committee consists of senior
business leaders and is tasked with supporting
sustainability strategy execution.
Our Sustainability Working Groups focus on long-term
strategic projects and regularly meet and report to the
Sustainability Committee.
GS Fund Holdings seeks to make investments in companies that meet the following investment criteria:
Led by managers with an established track record of achievement
Participate in economically attractive, fragmented, niche industries with strong fundamentals
Demonstrate a sustainable competitive advantage, including an ability to grow, innovate and
withstand economic downturns
Possess strong market positions, attractive cash flow attributes and high return on investment
enabling them, inter alia, to service a leveraged capitalization
Enjoy excellent organic or acquisitive growth prospects
GS Fund Holdings has experience executing the following transaction types:
Management buyouts of public and privately held companies and divisions of larger companies
Recapitalizations of closely held businesses in order to provide additional financing or liquidity
for existing investors
Acquisitions of companies seeking the financing required to execute consolidation strategies in
fragmented but attractive industries
Selected equity financings of growth companies that have demonstrated significant potential Equity
investments in growth companies
Investments in companies participating in industries in which GS Fund Holdings has extensive
investment experience
We are focused on global investment strategy. We generally seek to build a concentrated portfolio of scale investments in industries we know well and have developed significant expertise
We believe in sharing good (and bad) news early, aligning ourselves with our investors and companies, and truly partnering and empowering management teams. We also don’t charge transaction or monitoring fees to our portfolio companies (and haven’t since our founding)
We invest for the long haul to support the strategic and financial objectives of outstanding management teams. We believe our deep sector experience allows us to add value and offer insights that enable our companies to flourish.
Our investment philosophy is enhanced further by the depth of our focus on industry verticals. We have distinguished ourselves as a value-added partner with deep sector insights in select verticals which enables us to take a differentiated approach to sourcing, diligence, and value creation initiatives
We have a clear investment philosophy and disciplined approach to investing and have demonstrated performance across multiple investment cycles over our 10 years history