Ryan D. Mannle

Fortress is a global asset manager that raises, invests in and/or manages private equity funds, hedge funds, and publicly traded permanent capital vehicles. The firm offers a variety of investment strategies across its core businesses units. Each strategy involves significant risks, many of which are outside of their control.

Functions as a College/University

Functions as a College/University

RGREA pursues a strategy focused on using fundamental analysis to invest in publicly-traded REITs and other publicly-traded real estate securities that are included in the FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Global Real Estate Index. In selecting securities, the firm considers several criteria including: free float market capitalization and liquidity; total return; management quality; leverage; price to AFFO ratio; dividend growth; historical earnings growth; projected earnings growth; and, premium or discount to net asset value. They rely on information contained in the following sources in making their investment decisions: financial newspapers, magazines and on-line sources of financial and industry information; inspections of corporate properties and activities; research materials prepared by others; annual and other periodic reports; prospectuses; filings SEC or the foreign equivalent; company press releases; and, meetings with company management.

Easterly employs fundamental, bottom-up value investment strategies which aim to preserve capital and generate profit consistently. The firm believes that the fundamental approach to select attractive long equity positions is the key to achieving sustained and substantial appreciation. They invest client assets primarily in large-cap, mid-cap and all-cap equity securities of both domestic and foreign issuers traded on a US exchange.