Brookfield BHS Advisors LLC (“BHS” or the “Investment Manager”) is a Delaware limited
liability company with its principal place of business in New York, New York. BHS manages
a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund platform.
On December 9, 2022, Brookfield Corporation (formerly known as Brookfield Asset
Management Inc.) (the “Corporation”) and Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. (the
“Manager”) jointly announced the completion of the public listing and distribution of a 25%
interest in the Corporation’s asset management business (the “Asset Management
Business”), through the Manager (the “Transaction”).
Prior to the Transaction, BHS was a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Corporation. In
connection with the Transaction, the Corporation distributed to its existing shareholders
shares of the Manager, a newly incorporated Canadian entity, which as a result owns 25% of
the Asset Management Business (including BHS).
As a result of the Transaction:
(A) Brookfield Asset Management Inc. was renamed Brookfield Corporation and (i)
continues to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) and the Toronto
Stock Exchange (the “TSX”) under the new ticker “BN”, (ii) owns 75% of the Asset
Management Business and (iii) has a right to nominate half of the directors to be elected
to the board of directors of Brookfield Asset Management ULC (“BAM ULC”), through
which the Corporation and the Manager own their interests in the Asset Management
Business; and
(B) The Manager was named Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. and (i) is newly listed on the
NYSE and TSX under the ticker “BAM”, (ii) owns 25% of the Asset Management Business
and (iii) has a right to nominate half of the directors to be elected to the board of directors
of BAM ULC.
The Corporation, the Manager and their affiliates, other than BHS, Brookfield Public
Securities Group LLC (“PSG”) and Oaktree Entities (as defined below), are collectively
referred to herein as “Brookfield.”
The Manager is a leading global alternative asset manager with approximately $800 billion
of assets under management as of March 2023 across real estate, infrastructure, renewable
power and transition, private equity and credit. The Manager draws on Brookfield’s heritage
as an owner and operator to invest for value and generate strong returns for its clients,
across economic cycles.
BHS currently invests third-party investor capital as well as capital of Brookfield and its
related parties across long/short equity market neutral, quantitative/systematic and event-
driven strategies. BHS currently manages two multi-strategy hedge funds, Brookfield Multi-
Strategy Master Fund LP (together with its feeder funds, the “Flagship Multi-Strategy Fund”)
and Brookfield Multi-Strategy Enhanced Master Fund LP (together with its feeder funds, the
“Enhanced Multi-Strategy Fund”). The Enhanced Multi-Strategy Fund pursues an investment
program substantially similar to that of the Flagship Multi-Strategy Fund and is managed on
a pari passu basis with the Flagship Multi-Strategy Fund but employs greater leverage in
connection with its trading activities. Additionally, BHS may also seek to launch other multi-
strategy or single strategy hedge funds or separately managed accounts in the future, each
of which may be offered to third-party investors.
Currently, the investment strategies
pursued by BHS are primarily focused on equity securities. In the future, BHS may pursue
investment strategies that are focused on fixed income, credit, and other types of securities.
BHS provides investment advisory services on a discretionary basis to investment
companies exempted from the definition of investment company by Section 3(c)(7) of the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“Private Funds”). Each of the Flagship Multi-
Strategy Fund, the Enhanced Multi-Strategy Fund and their respective feeder funds are
Private Funds. Investors in Private Funds may include, without limitation, financial
institutions, public and private pension plans, insurance companies, fund of funds, family
offices, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, foundations and other institutional investors
as well as high net worth individuals. In addition, BHS may also in the future provide
investment advice to these types of investors via one or more separate accounts (the
“Separate Accounts”). The Separate Accounts and Private Funds that are currently or
expected in the future to be managed or advised by BHS are collectively referred to as “Client
Accounts.”
Generally, BHS expects to have discretion with respect to investment decisions made for the
Client Accounts. Investment advisory services will be provided to Client Accounts based on
the investment objectives, strategies and restrictions described in the offering and governing
documents of the applicable Client Account. In addition, BHS may from time to time utilize
advice provided by its participating affiliate, as further described in Item 10.
As of December 31, 2022, BHS managed on a discretionary basis approximately $3.4 billion
of capital, inclusive of leverage. This amount also represents BHS’s regulatory assets under
management as of that date.
On September 30, 2019, affiliates of Brookfield completed the acquisition of all of the
previously outstanding Class A common units of Oaktree Capital Group, LLC (“OCG”), an
indirect controlling parent of Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. (“Oaktree”, and together
with its “advisory affiliates” and “related persons” (as defined in Form ADV), the “Oaktree
Entities”), which together with certain related transactions has resulted in affiliates of
Brookfield owning an approximate 61.2% economic interest in Oaktree’s business (the
“Acquisition”).
Since the Acquisition both Brookfield and Oaktree Entities operate their respective
investment businesses largely independently, with each remaining under its current brand
and led by its existing management and investment teams, and Oaktree Entities, Brookfield,
PSG, and BHS continue to manage their investment operations independently of each other
pursuant to an “Information Barrier.” Accordingly, BHS, as a wholly owned subsidiary of
Brookfield, who is also subject to the Information Barrier, does not consider the Oaktree
Entities or its affiliates to be its “advisory affiliates” or “related persons” for purposes of Form
ADV. For more information regarding the Oaktree Entities, please see “Conflicts Relating to
Acquisition of the Oaktree Entities by Brookfield.”
Clients can invest in Brookfield strategies via three main channels: public securities, private
funds and listed partnerships.