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Adviser Profile

As of Date 10/02/2024
Adviser Type - Large advisory firm
- An investment adviser (or subadviser) to an investment company
Number of Employees 149 3.47%
of those in investment advisory functions 138 2.99%
Registration SEC, Approved, 01/27/1998
AUM* 31,829,902,745 -31.52%
of that, discretionary 31,829,902,745 -31.52%
Private Fund GAV* 3,700,778,752 -4.84%
Avg Account Size 269,744,939 -26.88%
SMA’s Yes
Private Funds 14 4
Contact Info 312 xxxxxxx
Websites

Client Types

- Investment companies
- Pooled investment vehicles
- Pension and profit sharing plans
- Charitable organizations
- State or municipal government entities
- Insurance companies
- Sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions
- Corporations or other businesses not listed above

Advisory Activities

- Portfolio management for individuals and/or small businesses
- Portfolio management for investment companies
- Portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles
- Portfolio management for businesses
- Selection of other advisers

Compensation Arrangments

- A percentage of assets under your management
- Performance-based fees

Recent News

Reported AUM

Discretionary
Non-discretionary
51B 44B 36B 29B 22B 15B 7B
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

Private Funds



Employees

Private Funds Structure

Fund Type Count GAV
Fund TypePrivate Equity Fund Count3 GAV$728,925,676
Fund TypeSecuritized Asset Fund Count6 GAV$2,338,692,848
Fund TypeOther Private Fund Count5 GAV$633,160,228

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Brochure Summary

Overview

RREEF America L.L.C. (“RREEF”), a Delaware limited liability company, is an investment adviser registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) since 1998. RREEF is part of the global investment management business of DWS Group GmbH & Co. KGaA (“DWS Group”), a German partnership limited by shares. DWS Group is a separate publicly listed financial services firm and an indirect majority-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bank AG, a multi-national financial services company (together with its affiliates, directors, officers, and employees, the “Deutsche Bank Group”). RREEF is an indirect subsidiary of DWS Group. RREEF provides investment and advisory services to funds and institutional clients on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis. RREEF has offered its products and services to clients across a range of asset classes and investing styles, since its formation in 1975. This brochure, including any brochure supplement, is intended for RREEF’s direct advisory clients. Investors in any RREEF-advised fund should rely on the fund’s prospectus and offering materials. Client-Imposed Investment Restrictions RREEF primarily manages direct real estate, as well as real estate, real asset, and infrastructure securities portfolios on behalf of separately managed account clients. RREEF works closely with its clients to understand their individual investment goals and objectives and recommends targeted investment strategies and vehicles. Subject to RREEF’s review, these clients may impose investment restrictions on RREEF’s investment strategies for their accounts. For direct real estate separately managed accounts, RREEF produces an Annual Strategic Investment Plan for each account. With respect to commingled funds (including registered investment companies) managed by RREEF, investors generally do not have an ability to individually impose restrictions on the management of such vehicles. Further, such fund offerings are not tailored to address the specific investment objectives or circumstances of any specific investor. Assets under Management As of December 31, 2023, RREEF had discretionary assets under management of $57,660,909,913 and non-discretionary assets under management of $10,813,631,568. RREEF’s assets under management noted above differ from those reported in Item 5.F. of RREEF’s ADV Part 1 given the inclusion of the value of direct real estate investments within the Part 2A totals. While real estate investments generally are not considered securities under the instructions to ADV Part 1, and therefore are not included within the Item 5.F. assets under management totals, they are considered to be “assets” for which RREEF provides investment advisory services and hence their value is included within the investment advisory fee calculations. Investment Capabilities Products listed below may be managed by RREEF either directly or through sub-advisory relationships with affiliated and non-affiliated entities. See Item 10 for information regarding certain affiliated arrangements related to RREEF’s advisory business. RREEF’s policies and practices can vary by strategy and/or product type. RREEF’s advisory services can vary by strategy and/or product type and geographic location. Investment Strategies Principal investment strategies currently offered by RREEF include: Liquid Real Assets—Real Estate Equity investments in publicly and privately traded real estate securities, including Real Estate Investment Trusts (“REITs”) and Real Estate Operating Companies (“REOCs”); Liquid Real Assets—Infrastructure Publicly and privately traded infrastructure related securities, including equity investments in publicly and privately traded securities of infrastructure related companies and Master Limited Partnerships (“MLPs”); Liquid Real Assets—Other Real Assets Commodities, commodity related equities, natural resources equities, as well as treasury inflation protection securities, floating rate notes and bank loans; Direct Real Estate—Core / Core Plus Predominantly high-quality equity investments in stabilized, income-producing properties, employing low to moderate leverage; Direct Real Estate—Value Added Equity investments in value-add properties requiring redevelopment, repositioning for alternative use or upgrade, employing moderate leverage; Direct Real Estate—Opportunistic Investments in equity and equity-like investments in real estate and real estate-related assets, including distressed properties and loans, mezzanine facilities, corporate and government dispositions, and private growth companies. This strategy seeks to capitalize on economic, financial and property market dislocation and may employ significant leverage; Direct Real Estate—Debt Debt and hybrid investments in real estate assets, real estate companies, and commercial and residential agency and non-agency mortgage-backed securities; mezzanine and structured real estate debt investments, transitional senior mortgages, B-notes, mezzanine loans, preferred equity and other real-estate backed structured investments; investments in Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”) subordinate tranche of the K Series (known as the “Class D” or “B-Piece”); Transitional finance for lease-up, redevelopment, or new construction; Infrastructure Debt Investments in private infrastructure debt in the primary and secondary markets; Focus on loans and bonds in both the sub-investment grade and investment grade markets, subject to meeting required returns on a portfolio basis; This strategy may employ substantial leverage; Sustainable Investments Strategies for managing certain private funds that focus on private investments of companies that are building, operating, and selling green projects or environmentally sustainable green systems and infrastructures. RREEF provides this strategy on a sub- advisory basis; and Private Equity – Senior and Junior Capital Investments in private equity and senior and junior debt of private equity sponsor- backed portfolio companies. Products and Services RREEF primarily offers the following products and services: Separately Managed Accounts RREEF manages investment advisory accounts on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis and pursues strategies falling into one or more of the following general categories: _ Liquid Real Assets - Real Estate _ Liquid Real Assets - Infrastructure _ Liquid Real Assets - Other Real Assets _ Direct Real Estate - Core/Core Plus _ Direct Real Estate - Value-Added _ Direct Real Estate - Debt _ Infrastructure Debt Investments Sub-advisory Services RREEF serves as sub-adviser to certain registered investment advisers and to certain foreign fund managers who act as the primary investment manager to clients (including registered investment companies, unregistered commingled funds, and separate account clients). Pursuant to written sub-advisory agreements, RREEF may manage all or a portion of the fund’s or separate account client’s portfolio or provide personnel that serve on the portfolio management team or investment committee. For any investment strategies for which RREEF only provides sub-advisory services, clients should also review the disclosure documentation provided by the primary advisor that engaged RREEF to provide sub-advisory services. RREEF’s sub-advisory services generally involve strategies falling into one or more of the following general categories: _ Liquid Real Assets - Real Estate _ Liquid Real Assets - Infrastructure _ Liquid Real Assets - Other Real Assets _ Direct Real Estate - Core/Core Plus _ Direct Real Estate - Value-Added _ Direct Real Estate - Debt _ Direct Real Estate - Opportunistic _ Infrastructure Debt Investments _ Sustainable Investments RREEF has sought and obtained a permanent order from the Securities and Exchange Commission providing exemptive relief under Section 9 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), on which it relies in connection with the continued provision of investment advisory services to registered investment companies. Pooled Vehicles Non-Registered Funds RREEF serves as investment manager or sub-adviser to certain privately offered investment funds not registered under the Investment Company Act and sold only to certain investors meeting specific eligibility requirements. Some of these funds are, or have subsidiaries (each, a “REIT Subsidiary”) which are, organized to qualify as real estate investment trusts under relevant provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). These funds pursue strategies falling into one or more of the following general categories: _ Liquid Real Assets - Real Estate _ Liquid Real Assets - Infrastructure _ Liquid Real Assets - Other Real Assets _ Direct Real Estate - Core/Core Plus _ Direct Real Estate - Value-Added _ Direct Real Estate - Opportunistic _ Infrastructure Debt Investments _ Private Equity – Senior and Junior Capital _ Sustainable investments SEC-Registered Non-Traded REIT RREEF provides discretionary investment advisory services to a non-exchange-traded, perpetual-life REIT not registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act (the “Registered Non-Traded REIT”). Shares of common stock of the Registered Non-Traded REIT are offered to the public pursuant to a registration statement Form S-11 filed with the SEC, but not listed for trading on an exchange or other trading market. The Registered Non-Traded REIT may invest in a diversified portfolio of commercial real estate properties, real estate securities, and debt backed principally by real estate, using elements of strategies falling into one or more of the following general categories: _ Liquid Real Assets - Real Estate _ Direct Real Estate - Core/Core Plus _ Direct Real Estate - Value Added _ Direct Real Estate - Debt Model Portfolios RREEF may provide model portfolio recommendations for a variety of investment styles to clients of RREEF and RREEF affiliates. Model portfolios may relate to the same investment strategies that are also offered or utilized through discretionary accounts. RREEF typically provides model portfolio recommendations on a non-discretionary basis, i.e., model portfolio recipients are responsible for interposing their own judgment in deciding that the model portfolio recommendations are appropriate for their client accounts and for determining whether and which recommended securities transactions
are to be executed on behalf of their clients. Strategic Partnerships RREEF offers its Private Equity – Senior and Junior Capital strategy through a strategic partnership with Northwestern Mutual Capital (“NMC”), a division of Northwestern Mutual Investment Management Company, LLC (“NMIMC”), pursuant to which NMC provides portfolio management services to certain pooled investment vehicles under RREEF’s management. Non-U.S. Strategies/Other Arrangements RREEF offers a variety of non-U.S. strategies through its sub-advisory relationships with advisory affiliates located outside the United States. Apart from furnishing investment advice to clients, RREEF also provides various investment advisory, consulting, administrative and research support services to its affiliates, pursuant to intercompany agreements. RREEF may offer, and may negotiate fees with respect to, its investment advisory and research support services to other third-party fiduciaries and may also render investment advice to specific accounts of such fiduciaries that contract with RREEF. To provide financial services in Australia, RREEF relies on an exemption from the requirement to hold an Australian financial services license under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). RREEF is regulated by the SEC under applicable U.S. laws, which differ from Australian laws. Environmental, Social and Governance Considerations RREEF seeks to incorporate in its investment process environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) risks and opportunities that could have a material impact on the financial performance of the issuer, in accordance with the goals of a particular investment strategy and client investment guidelines, and further subject to its fiduciary obligations and applicable law, rule and regulation. For most asset classes and market segments, RREEF portfolio managers have access to ESG research and grades, including research provided by internal DWS analysts which consider ESG risks and opportunities, as well as access to ESG quality assessment scores and additional information from DWS’s proprietary ESG tool (also referred to as the “ESG Engine”). For those strategies that do not seek to implement a specific ESG strategy, the level of consideration of ESG factors in a strategy’s process will differ from strategy to strategy, from sector to sector, and from portfolio manager to portfolio manager. Because investors can differ in their views of what constitutes positive or negative ESG characteristics, RREEF may invest in issuers that do not reflect the ESG beliefs and values of other investors. RREEF’s considerations of ESG risks and opportunities may affect a fund’s exposure to certain companies or industries, and an ESG-dedicated strategy may forego certain investment opportunities. While RREEF views considerations of ESG risks and considerations as having the potential to contribute to a client’s account long-term performance, there is no guarantee that such results will be achieved. Because of the inherent differences between Liquid Real Assets and RREEF’s illiquid strategies encompassing Infrastructure Debt, Private Equity, Direct Real Estate and Real Estate Debt (the “Illiquid Strategies”), the approach to incorporating ESG is tailored specifically to the strategy and in accordance with a client’s investment objectives and requires different tools to be utilized to consider ESG factors when assessing risk and return of a particular investment. 1. Liquid Real Assets - Available ESG Tools RREEF portfolio managers in the U.S. Liquid Real Assets (“LRA”) business may use the DWS proprietary ESG tool and/or the LRA proprietary ESG models, each as outlined below, to analyze the ESG attributes of a potential investment. DWS Proprietary ESG Tool RREEF’s portfolio managers may use output from a proprietary DWS ESG tool that evaluates an issuer’s performance across a variety of ESG indicators, primarily on the basis of data obtained from multiple third-party ESG data vendors and public sources and assigns a DWS ESG Quality Grade to each issuer covered by the ESG tool. An additional DWS internal review process allows for changes to the DWS ESG Quality Grade. An internal review may occur, for example, if it is deemed that information is not reflected in the existing ESG grade because new information or insights have emerged that the ESG data vendors have not yet processed. Examples of information that may be considered in this review process include, but are not limited to, the announcement of new (or withdrawal from previously announced) climate- related commitments, or the resolution of legacy (or involvement in new) controversies. RREEF’s portfolio management may consider application of internal reviews on a given DWS ESG Quality Grade and use their discretion whether and how to apply. The DWS ESG Quality Grade seeks to identify ESG leaders and laggards within an industry- and region-specific peer groups in terms of overall ESG performance (best-in-class approach). Issuers within the same industry and region-specific peer group are graded on a scale of A (true leader) to F (true laggard). Issuers with a grade of C or above are deemed to meet RREEF’s sustainability criteria. In calculating the DWS ESG Quality Grade, the DWS proprietary ESG tool utilizes a proprietary methodology to evaluate ESG scores from multiple third-party data vendors across a broad range of ESG indicators to arrive at a consensus overall quality grade intended to reflect which companies may be positioned better to address, and which companies may be more exposed to future ESG risks, relative to their peers. The broad range of ESG indicators measured include, among others, assessments of an issuer’s carbon emissions including its own emissions and those of its products and services, land use and biodiversity, climate change strategy and vulnerability, product safety and quality, employee management issues including equal opportunities and non-discrimination, freedom of association and right to collective bargaining and occupational health and safety, community relations, human rights issues related to supply chain, business ethics and anti-corruption, and corporate governance matters including executive pay, board diversity and board independence. The proprietary DWS ESG tool covers most listed asset classes but there is limited information on high yield, municipal bonds, emerging markets, IPOs and certain other types of securities due to incomplete vendor coverage. Through the DWS ESG tool, RREEF’s portfolio management may also access issuer-specific contextual analysis that provides additional information about an issuer’s ESG risks and opportunities, risk mitigation actions or plans and other characteristics. LRA Proprietary ESG Models The LRA team has a separate and proprietary process (the “LRA ESG Models”) for using selected ESG data sources relevant to their strategies. Currently, LRA has two dedicated ESG strategies, which utilize the ratings and screens of the LRA ESG Models, as documented in the investment guidelines for those strategies. 2. RREEF Illiquid Strategies - Strategy-Specific ESG Considerations For Illiquid Strategies, the incorporation of ESG into the investment process takes place during investment due diligence and portfolio management. Infrastructure Debt The U.S. Infrastructure Debt business developed an ESG scoring methodology applicable to private infrastructure debt investments, which the business began to utilize in 2021 to support the overall investment process and ongoing monitoring of the ESG attributes of such investments. These ESG scores are updated quarterly. Direct Real Estate RREEF operates a management system approach, called Sustainability Program which, like other best-practice management systems, follows a Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) methodology to ensure implementation and improvement on a continuous basis. The Sustainability Program encompasses the following five separate stages i) Data Collection, ii) Risk Review, including transitional, physical/disaster (including climate-related) and social norms risks, iii) Goal Setting, iv) Implementation; and v) Measurement and Reporting (using industry standards and benchmarks such as green building certification systems and portfolio sustainability benchmarking). Real Estate Debt For Real Estate Debt, RREEF recognizes the importance of identifying, assessing, and managing material sustainability issues, but, given the nature of the investments which are loans and not equity investments in real property, RREEF is limited in its influence of the management of a property, which serves as collateral for a loan. Thus, during the origination stage, RREEF may exclude certain sectors or property types such as heavy industrial properties, casinos, and nightclubs, as well as conduct environmental, property level and borrower/sponsor due diligence, which helps evaluate certain sustainability-relatedrisk. Sustainable Investments The Sustainable Investments business’s ESG assessment process aims to integrate ESG considerations in the investment process and is guided by general accepted frameworks including, for example, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards. During the due diligence process, the manager engages professional third-party advisors to examine the financial, technical, and legal aspects of the projects, especially those that would translate into ESG risks. Potential risks and mitigation measures are presented to the Investment Committee and mediation work is carried out to reduce such risks. The Sustainable Investments team monitors the operation of the portfolio companies and seeks to ensure that they operate in compliance with the environmental standards and regulations. Some of Sustainable Investment’s funds engage a third-party consultancy to conduct a quarterly ESG For Direct Real Estate, RREEF recognizes the importance of identifying, assessing, and managing material sustainability issues as an integral part of conducting the direct real estate business. Sustainability-related issues can present risks and opportunities for the financial performance, and investments may have positive and negative environmental and social effects. reporting for the Fund and the quarterly reports include risk analyses and record the waste generation and air pollutant emissions in detail. For some funds we use a proprietary tool to measure and monitor impact.