HOW WE OPERATE
We take long-term participations in privately-held companies.
Our businesses operate in a number of sectors, with defining characteristics of well-managed expenditures targeted at defined revenue streams, thus ensuring positive net cash-flow balances
Diversifying with Gladstone managers helps provide additional layers of risk management that protect investors from being overly concentrated in a specific type of asset or country
To protect and enhance Gladstone’s ownership stake in each business by actively involving key partners in the corporate governance, financial, commercial and legal structuring and (where relevant) the business development of each underlying company
We seek to invest in, and work with like-minded individuals who demonstrate the same values, ethics and principles by which we ourselves live.
We deploy our capital alongside that of our portfolio company partners
Our investment policy focuses on protecting and building value with a necessary long-term time horizon
Our investment horizon and exit strategies allow us to participate in the long-term compounding of earnings.
To further protect these long-term earnings, we run a Capital Preservation strategy with exposure to precious metals, as a way to shelter our capital from the vagaries of inflation
General
Hybrid Management Model
Helping HNW, family office, and institutional clients make high quality research driven direct investments often investing alongside them to show commitment
We operate a hybrid model with:
• consulting – independent transaction and portfolio risk assessment and monitoring
• legal structuring and governance.
• agriculture and farm management systems.
• online retail and social media distribution platform
• balance sheet optimisation.
• vendor financing and management buy-outs
• continuously generating positive cash flows for liquidity within the portfolio
• surplus cash flows managed under a treasury management system to further compounding
• Capital Preservation model, which hedges against inflation through exposure to precious metals and related assets
Private Technology Investments
• Through our strong network, we identify early-stage JV opportunities with unique, highly attractive technology propositions.
• We are hands-on, with operational, management and Board level involvement.
• We help our innovators, entrepreneurs, and technical specialists with support & resources to further develop their technology offering to clients worldwide.
Expertise
Using our unique network and local reach in Europe, UK and the Middle Eastern region we provide direction and guidance to our businesses, local companies, investors and foreign firms wishing to establish a presence and expand.