Manish Harshad Desai

Oaktree Real Estate focuses on a diverse range of opportunities across all areas of real estate, with an emphasis on debt or equity investments in commercial real estate, corporate real estate, structured finance, commercial NPLs, residential real estate and non-U.S. real estate.The firm adheres to a fundamental investment philosophy and strategy which emphasizes risk control and downside protection.

OCM specializes in alternative investments that inves tin closed-end, open-end and evergreen vehicles across four asset classes: Credit, Private Equity, Real Assets, and Listed Equities. They uses fundamental bottom-up analysis and may engage in long term or short term purchases, trading, short sales in certain strategies, margin transactions, and option writing, including covered options, uncovered options or spreading strategies.

Oaktree UK is a risk-averse, research-oriented, opportunistic manager which aims to deliver superior risk adjusted performance in alternative asset classes. The firm invests in closed-end, open-end and evergreen vehicles across four asset classes: credit, private equity, real assets and listed equities. Their six tenets investment philosophy includes risk control, consistency, market inefficiency, specialization, bottom-up analysis and disavowal of market timing. Oaktree Capital-UK’s expertise in investing across the capital structure has allowed them to cultivate a diversified mix of global investment strategies. Importantly, the expansion of the firm’s strategies has been achieved primarily through step-outs into highly related fields, based on identifying markets that (a) they believe have the potential for attractive returns, and (b) can be exploited in a manner consistent with the firm’s philosophy focused on risk control.