WEISS MULTI-STRATEGY ADVISERS LLC other names

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Adviser Profile

As of Date:

04/15/2024

Adviser Type:

- Large advisory firm


Number of Employees:

110 -7.56%

of those in investment advisory functions:

55 -9.84%


Registration:

SEC, Approved, 3/16/2010

AUM:

7,334,347,111 13.04%

of that, discretionary:

7,334,347,111 13.04%

Private Fund GAV:

3,874,255,269 12.89%

Avg Account Size:

488,956,474 20.58%


SMA’s:

YES

Private Funds:

4 1

Contact Info

212 xxxxxxx

Websites :
Client Types:

+

Advisory Activities:

+

Compensation Arrangments:

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Reported AUM

Discretionary
Non-discretionary
9B 7B 6B 5B 4B 2B 1B
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

Recent News

Weiss tried to sell hedge fund before calling it quits - HedgeCo.Net
03/13/2024

(Hedgeweek) George Weiss, Founder of Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers, unsuccessfully tried to find a buyer for his $3bn firm holding talks with several ...

hedgeco.net

Weiss tried to sell hedge fund before calling it quits
03/12/2024

TOP STORY: George Weiss, Founder of Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers, unsuccessfully tried to find a buyer for his $3bn firm holding talks with several potential suitors including Millennium Management, before finally deciding to close the business, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Hedge Week

Weiss to shutter multi-strat hedge fund after 46 years - HedgeCo.Net
03/05/2024

(Hedgeweek) Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers, a New York-based hedge fund firm started in 1978 by Founder and Chief Executive George Weiss, ...

hedgeco.net

Weiss to shutter multi-strat hedge fund after 46 years
03/04/2024

Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers, a New York-based hedge fund firm started in 1978 by Founder and Chief Executive George Weiss, is winding down its operations after a challenging couple of years, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Hedge Week

Weiss Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund to Shut After 46 Years - Bloomberg | AlphaMaven
03/04/2024

Today's Hedge Fund Headlines: ; Worldwide Healthcare Partners ; 3h ago · livemint ; 4h ago · ca.finance.yahoo ; 4h ago · afr ; 12h ago · bing.

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Weiss multi-strategy hedge fund to shut after 46 years - Business Khabar
03/04/2024

WEISS Multi-Strategy Advisers, a New York-based funding administration agency began in 1978, is winding down its operations.

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Private Funds Structure

Fund Type Count GAV
Hedge Fund 4 $3,874,255,269

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Brochure Summary

Overview

General Description of Advisory Firm A. Describe your advisory firm, including how long you have been in business. Identify your principal owners. Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers LLC (the “Adviser”) is an affiliate of George Weiss Associates, Inc. (together, with their affiliates and predecessors, the “Firm”). George A. Weiss, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Firm, founded George Weiss Associates, Inc., formerly an SEC and NASD registered broker/dealer, in 1978. The original business was built around brokerage and trading, especially in domestic utility company names on behalf of institutional investors. In 1986, the Firm entered the hedge fund business. In the mid-1990s, the Firm initiated a proprietary investment operation. For the better part of a decade, the Firm focused increasingly on managing the capital of its principals and it wound down the hedge fund business. This proprietary endeavor proved successful and facilitated a substantial expansion of the enterprise. The Firm was reorganized in 2005 and the Adviser was created as the investment advisory entity which would manage the Firm’s private investment funds, registered investment companies, managed accounts, and proprietary capital. The Adviser became registered as an investment adviser with the SEC in March 2010 and registered as a commodity pool operator with the CFTC and NFA in January 2013. The Adviser is majority-owned by GWA, LLC, a Connecticut limited liability company. GWA, LLC, in turn, is majority-owned by Weiss Family Interests LLC, which is majority- owned by various Weiss family trusts. A substantial number of the Adviser’s employees also own minority interests in GWA, LLC. Description of Advisory Services (including any specializations) B. Describe the types of advisory services you offer. If you hold yourself out as specializing in a particular type of advisory service, such as financial planning, quantitative analysis, or market timing, explain the nature of that service in greater detail. If you provide investment advice only with respect to limited types of investments, explain the type of investment advice you offer, and disclose that your advice is limited to those types of investments. The Adviser acts as a discretionary investment adviser to a number of private investment funds organized by the Adviser, a mutual fund and a UCITS fund. The Advisers also advises managed accounts owned by institutional investors over which it exercises sole investment discretion. On behalf of its clients, the Adviser invests and trades in a wide range of U.S. and non-U.S. equities, fixed income securities, convertibles, options, other derivatives such as swaps, credit default protection and contracts for differences, futures, forward contracts, debt instruments and other types of financial instruments. In connection with client trading, the Adviser employs short-selling techniques and may utilize leverage and/or make margin purchases. There are generally no restrictions on the Adviser’s use of leverage or borrowing, other than those which may be imposed by applicable statutes and regulations or by the owner of a separately managed account. Availability of Tailored Services for Individual Clients C. Explain whether (and if so how) you tailor your advisory services to the individual needs of clients. Explain whether clients may impose restrictions on investing in certain securities or types of securities. The Adviser does not tailor its advisory services to the individual needs of clients. Its accounts, however, may have specific investment objectives or use varying investment strategies. By way of background, the Adviser’s clients fall into the following categories: 1. Traditional private investment funds: Weiss Multi-Strategy Partners LLC; Weiss Multi-Strategy Partners (Cayman) Ltd.; Weiss Insurance Partners (Cayman) Ltd. 2. separately managed accounts for institutional investors 3. proprietary capital 4. a charitable account 5. alternative multi-strategy products, including separately managed accounts, an open-end mutual fund, a multi-strategy portfolio available through a collaboration with a third party and a Luxembourg domiciled UCITS fund. 6.
Stand-alone, single strategy private investment fund, Weiss Enhanced Global Macro Fund LLC Client types 1, 2, 3: The Adviser generally conducts the investment trading program for these clients in a similar manner albeit at different allocation weightings in certain strategies. Investors in the separately managed accounts have also placed certain restrictions on the strategies, securities and types of securities in which they invest. In addition, the Firm’s proprietary capital also may be invested in unseasoned “incubator strategies” or sub- strategies that may or may not mature into strategies suitable for the other client types. It may also invest in certain ancillary strategies that the Adviser does not believe appropriate for trading for its other clients due to their risk profile. The inflows and outflows of capital will also differ for each client, which may result in different investment activity among the private investment funds, the separately managed accounts and the proprietary capital account. The performance of the traditional private investment funds, the separately managed accounts and the proprietary capital account may not be similar due to the above factors and due to the fact that the respective clients may use different leverage. Please note that certain separately managed accounts for institutional investors use the strategies described under Client type 5 rather than the foregoing strategies. Client type 4: The Adviser also manages an account for a charitable organization founded by George Weiss that has a different investment strategy and portfolio manager from other clients. Client type 5: The alternative multi-strategy products utilize actively managed strategies that seek to provide exposure to equity and debt portfolios, and a multi-strategy long/short portfolio (the “Core Market Neutral alpha portfolio”) using a risk allocation methodology. The Adviser aims to structure the portfolios on a risk-weighted basis, an allocation model that stresses each asset portfolio’s contribution to risk rather than specific dollar amounts or expected returns. The approach will seek to balance risk across asset classes through exposures primarily to equities and debt. Subject to a maximum allocation constraint on the alpha portfolio, it also uses the Adviser’s Core Market Neutral alpha portfolio, which consists of a top-down risk-weighted allocation to a long/short hedge fund and combines sector-specific equity long/short, credit and cross asset strategies. The inflows and outflows of capital will also differ for each of these clients, which may result in different investment activity among the product offerings. The performance of these clients may not be similar due to the above factors and due to the fact that different risk balance thresholds may be used for each product and the strategies invested in by each product may be different. Different leverage factors may also be used among products which will also cause returns to differ. Client type 6: The Adviser manages a single strategy, stand-alone private investment fund, Weiss Enhanced Global Macro Fund LLC (“Weiss Enhanced Global Macro Fund”). Weiss Enhanced Global Macro Fund uses a long/short global macro strategy to seek to provide investors attractive returns with low correlation to bond and equity markets and non-traditional asset classes. Wrap Fee Programs D. If you participate in wrap fee programs by providing portfolio management services, (1) described the differences, if any, between how you manage wrap fee accounts and how you manage other accounts, and (2) explain that you receive a portion of the wrap fee for your services. The Adviser does not participate in wrap fee programs. Client Assets Under Management E. If you manage client assets, disclose the amount of client assets you manage on a discretionary basis and the amount of client assets you manage on a non-discretionary basis. Disclose the date “as of” which you calculated the amounts. As of December 31, 2023, the Adviser managed approximately $ 2,352,670,021 billion dollars in net assets on a discretionary basis. This amount may include notionally funded assets. The Adviser does not manage non-discretionary assets.