In constantly monitoring all corners of the institutional investment world, our management team seeks to identify uniquely talented and undiscovered investment managers that have compiled track records of success in their respective asset classes. We believe that offering these strategies in a vehicle that emphasizes both transparency and daily liquidity is a benefit to all investors. Furthermore, in aspiring to create a suite of strategies that are largely uncorrelated to each other, we hope to provide our clients the flexibility to employ one, several, or all of our funds as portfolio tools in addressing a variety of investment goals.

Although many factors are considered throughout the due diligence process, including asset class, investment style and market outlook, the backbone of our philosophy is represented in a set of core characteristics upon which we are unwilling to compromise:

At USA Mutuals, we believe that truly understanding the basic expectations and behavior of any investment strategy is paramount to its proper positioning within a portfolio. It is all too common in today’s alternative investment universe to encounter poorly defined or miscategorized investment objectives, both intentionally and unintentionally. Many funds attempt to be all things to all investors. Consequently, improperly utilized strategies can lead to unexpected results. This doesn’t necessarily mean a strategy is ineffective, it may simply mean it was incorrectly positioned relative to its actual attributes rather than its perceived attributes. This is an eminently fixable problem. We aim to clearly define the fundamental expectations of each of our strategies in various types of market cycles. Transparent and accurate expectations evolve into predictable risk management tools, and predictable risk management tools are the foundation of our portfolio construction philosophy.