MB Family Advisors, LLC (“MB Advisors”) is an investment management company which provides
investment advisory services to private investment funds and discretionary and non-discretionary
separately managed accounts.
Founded in 2008, MB Advisors currently has approximately $166 million in assets under
management, consisting of $50.5 million of discretionary assets under management and $115.1
million of non-discretionary assets under management, in each case, as of January 1, 2024.
Mark Berman is the founder and sole owner of MB Advisors.
MB Advisors currently provides investment advisory services to qualified individuals and entities
through: (i) MB Dislocation Opportunity Fund, LP (“MB Dislocation Fund” or the “Fund”), a fund of
funds which invests primarily in collective investment vehicles (including fund of funds, registered
and unregistered investment funds and exchange traded funds) and managed accounts that are
managed by a number of independent portfolio managers, in each case, specializing in, among other
potential strategies, credit, equities (including international and emerging market equities),
arbitrage (merger, convertible, volatility, crypto currency and/or other arbitrage strategies), options,
warrants and other derivatives, quantitative trading strategies (including managed futures),
distressed debt, currencies, convertible securities, structured finance (including asset backed
securities and/or mortgage debt and other forms of structured finance like collateralized loan
obligations (CLO’s), collateralized debt obligations (CDO’s), residential mortgage-backed securities
(RMBS), commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) etc.), life settlements and other longevity
strategies, global macro investing, multi-strategy investing, SPAC’s, Bitcoin, Etherium and other
crypto currencies, master limited partnerships, gold, silver and other precious metals (including
shares of mining companies), other commodities, long/short equity, event driven, activist, private
credit, direct lending, municipal finance, fixed income (including without limitation international
and/or emerging market fixed income) and/or other strategies that MB Advisors believes are
appropriate for the current investment environment (it being understood that the MB Dislocation
Fund will not generally be invested in all the aforementioned strategies), and (ii) separately managed
accounts which are tailored to the investment objectives of individual clients. As of the date of this
Brochure, each of the separately managed accounts is pursuing an investment strategy reasonably
similar to (although in some cases meaningfully broader or narrower than) the investment strategy
of MB Dislocation Fund although in the future different strategies may be pursued in separately
managed accounts.
FEES, COMPENSATION AND RESEARCH EXPENSES
MB Advisors generally charges management fees of up to 1.25% per annum on client assets (although
in the future may negotiate different or higher management fee arrangements with clients which
would be memorialized in each client’s investment management agreement with MB Advisors).
Management fees are charged quarterly and are generally paid in advance. For discretionary
accounts, Management fees are generally withdrawn from each client’s account. For non-
discretionary accounts, Management fees are generally invoiced and paid by the client. Clients are
generally not eligible for partial refunds in the case of early withdrawals, but specific details are set
forth in each respective client’s limited partnership agreement, investment management agreement
and/or confidential private placement memoranda. “Client” as used herein shall refer to MB
Dislocation Fund, a separately managed account client and/or an investor in such funds or accounts,
as appropriate.
All clients will incur third-party brokerage commissions and other transaction costs directly (or, in
the case of the MB Dislocation Fund and separately managed accounts pursuing a similar strategy,
indirectly), as explained in further detail in the Brokerage Practices section below. Clients
invested
in collective investment vehicles (many of which are commonly referred to as hedge funds or private
equity funds) incur both management fees, performance fees and fund expenses as disclosed in the
underlying fund’s private placement memorandum, charged by the managers of such collective
investment vehicles (in most cases management fees typically range from 1%-2% and performance
fees typically range from 10% to 30%; but on occasion management and performance fees can be
substantially higher or lower than these typical arrangements). Additional third-party costs borne
by clients may include: tax preparation fees; administrator fees; legal fees; auditing fees; consulting
and other professional fees and expenses; research, due diligence and investment related costs and
expenses; and liability insurance for MB Advisors and its members, officers and employees (including
errors and omissions and directors and officers liability insurance), as well as cyber insurance. MB
Dislocation Fund may incur expenses that benefit MB Advisors and the general partner of such Fund.
In all cases, details concerning applicable fees and expenses are set forth in each respective client’s
limited partnership agreement, investment management agreement and/or confidential private
placement memoranda.
The general partner to the MB Dislocation Fund generally charges a performance fee of 5% of net
profits. Separately managed account performance fees, if any, are negotiated on a case by case basis.
Performance-based fees are drawn from clients’ accounts either in the form of an incentive fee or a
performance allocation (sometimes referred to as a “carried interest”), and are generally paid or
allocated either to MB Advisors or an affiliate. Performance-based fees may be subject to (i) a loss
carryforward (sometimes referred to as a “high water mark”) whereby losses in any given period are
recorded and carried forward and such fees are collected only when subsequent profits exceed such
losses and (ii) a preferred return (sometimes referred to as a “hurdle rate”) whereby the
performance-based fees are collected only after a client has achieved a certain rate of return on its
investment. The MB Dislocation Fund’s performance fee is not subject to a hurdle rate.
When (i) MB Dislocation and (ii) separately managed account clients and/or Mark Berman or his
family each invest in the same underlying investment within 3 months of each other, to the extent
there are research or similar expenses in connection with such investment, such expenses will be
shared pro rata between MB Dislocation and MB Advisors based on the amount that MBDOF invests
and the amount in aggregate that all SMA clients and all related persons (e.g. Mark Berman and
family) invest, respectively, in the applicable underlying investment, for the 3-month period
beginning on the date of initial investment by MB Dislocation or an SMA client, whomever invests
first. In the event that SMA clients or related persons invest subsequent to such 3-month period, its
possible MB Advisors will benefit from MB Dislocation disproportionately bearing the burden of such
expense.
SIDE-BY-SIDE MANAGEMENT AND ALLOCATION POLICY
Because MB Advisors has multiple clients, at times it may need to allocate investment opportunities
of limited availability across its clients’ accounts. In such situations, some accounts may offer higher
management and performance-based fee potential than others. MB Advisors has an incentive to
favor accounts for which it receives higher performance-based fees since it may receive a greater
profit if the investment generates a positive return. To seek equitable treatment of all clients
irrespective of such fee considerations, MB Advisors has adopted an allocation policy that sets out
the criteria for determining allocations, the most important of which are each client’s investment
objective and strategy, risk exposure, risk tolerance, liquidity preferences, existing portfolio
composition and available liquidity. These determinations often require subjective assessments by
MB Advisors.