AIP is a Delaware limited partnership that has been registered with the SEC under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940,
as amended (“Advisers Act”), since 2001, and offers, along with its affiliates, various investment products and services
through managed account and investment portfolio structures. The general partner of AIP is Morgan Stanley Alternative
Investments LLC (“MSAI”), and the limited partner of AIP is Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. (“MSIM”). AIP,
MSAI and MSIM are all wholly owned subsidiaries of Morgan Stanley, a corporation whose shares are publicly held and
traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “MS”. Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm
engaged in securities trading and brokerage activities, as well as providing investment banking, research and analysis
and financial services.
Overview
AIP’s advisory business consists primarily of identifying investment opportunities and making investments in diversified
portfolios of traditional and non-traditional investment funds. AIP provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment
management services and products to institutional and individual investors. AIP offers the flexibility of investing through
individually customized managed accounts, dedicated single investor private funds and commingled funds. AIP advises
on a (i) discretionary basis to privately and publicly offered pooled investment vehicles; and (ii) discretionary and non-
discretionary basis to (a) private funds set up for qualifying individual investors; and (b) separately managed accounts
consisting of a customized investment portfolio (“SMAs”).
The investment vehicles and private funds for which AIP provides investment management services (as the managing
member, general partner, or the investment manager) are collectively referred to herein as the “Funds”. For purposes of
convenience, the Funds and SMAs are referred to herein as “Clients” or “Accounts”.
AIP allocates assets to investment vehicles managed by AIP or its affiliates and unaffiliated third-party investment
managers; and, with respect to certain investment strategies, to equity or debt securities and over-the-counter derivatives
and futures. Contract types include equity, fixed income, forwards, spot foreign exchange and swaps. AIP also engages
and oversees investment managers who employ one or more investment strategies on behalf of a Fund. The underlying
investment funds in which the Clients invest are referred to throughout this Brochure as the “Underlying Investment
Funds” and the investment managers who manage the Underlying Investment Funds are referred to as the “Underlying
Investment Managers.” Investment managers engaged by AIP to manage assets directly on behalf of a Fund are referred
to as “Portfolio Managers”. Portfolio Managers will generally be unaffiliated third-party investment managers but may
also include one or more employee of AIP or its affiliates (each such employee, an “Internal Portfolio Manager” and
collectively, the “Internal Portfolio Managers”).
AIP will tailor its services to meet the needs of Clients by managing portfolios in accordance with the investment
guidelines and restrictions set forth in an investment management agreement (with respect to SMAs) and the applicable
governing materials (with respect to Funds). Investment advice is provided by AIP directly to each Fund in accordance
with its particular investment objectives and not individually to the Fund’s investors.
AIP’s advisory business focuses on providing discretionary and, in certain cases, non- discretionary, investment
management services to Clients across seven strategies: (1) hedge funds; (2) risk premia; (3) alternative lending; (4) the
Omni Strategy; (5) private markets (“Private Markets”); (6) opportunistic investments; and (7) customized portfolio
solutions. AIP does not participate in any wrap fee programs.
Hedge Fund Solutions
The Hedge Fund Solutions business invests in the following asset classes and investment strategies: (i) Underlying
Investment Funds (“Hedge Funds”); (ii) opportunistic investments (“Opportunistic Investments”); (iii) the Omni Strategy;
(iv) risk premia (“Risk Premia Investments”); and (v) Alternative Lending Securities (as defined below). The Hedge Fund
Solutions investment team offers portfolio solutions to clients via customized hedge fund portfolios and/or investment
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recommendations into non-affiliated and affiliated, single, and multi-strategy hedge funds, including non-discretionary
advisory services, Customized Advisory Portfolio Solutions (“CAPS”).
As part of the due diligence process for determining the primary Underlying Investment Funds to which Client assets are
allocated, the Hedge Fund Solutions investment team analyzes the quality of each Underlying Investment Manager’s
resources, controls, infrastructure and service providers through on-site meetings with management, background
investigations, examination of fund documents, audited financial statements and discussions with the Underlying
Investment Fund’s independent service providers.
Hedge Funds. The Hedge Fund Solutions Hedge Funds strategy focuses the allocation of assets to (i) Underlying
Investment Funds managed by Underlying Investment Managers who employ a variety of non-traditional investment
strategies; and (ii) Underlying Investment Funds managed in traditional style.
Opportunistic Investments. The Hedge Fund Solutions Opportunistic Investments strategy focuses the allocation of
assets to (a) investing in funds managed by Underlying Investment Managers who employ a variety of non-traditional
investment strategies; (b) investing in funds managed by Underlying Investment Managers in a traditional style; (c) direct
co-investments, which are generally minority investments in operating companies, primarily alongside existing
Underlying Investment Managers (“Co-Investments”); and (d) secondary market purchases of Underlying Investment
Funds and direct companies. Furthermore, a Client may invest in privately held companies or publicly traded companies
in which, in some cases, the Client invests alongside an Underlying Investment Fund that is typically an Underlying
Investment Fund in which
a Client has also invested directly.
For Underlying Investment Funds purchased in secondary market transactions, operational due diligence may be scaled
back and calibrated to the size and details of the transaction, with a focus on transaction-specific risks. In addition, for a
fee, the Hedge Fund Solutions investment team provides investment research and operational due diligence services to
AIP’s affiliate, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“MSSB” or “Wealth Management”).
Omni Strategy. On behalf of the Funds it manages (collectively, the “Omni Fund”), the Hedge Fund Solutions Omni
investment team (“Omni”) evaluates, selects, engages, and oversees Portfolio Managers who employ one or more of
the following strategies (collectively, the “Omni Strategy”) to make direct investments on behalf of the Omni Fund.
• Fundamental Long/Short Equity Strategies. Omni seeks to appoint Portfolio Managers that employ a fundamental
long/short equity strategy with the goal of constructing a long/short portfolio consisting of the most undervalued
securities in the collective long portfolio and the most overvalued securities in the collective short portfolio, across a
broad representation of a variety of industries, sectors, and sub-sectors.
• Quantitative Equity and Futures Trading Strategies. Omni seeks to appoint Portfolio Managers that perform
statistical analysis and analytic research on price changes, trends, and distributional properties of individual equity
securities, listed exchanged traded funds, indices and future contracts and design algorithmic trading systems which
are programs created to locate trading opportunities in a systematic or computationally intensive way.
• Orthogonal and Other Non-Correlated Strategies. Omni seeks to appoint Portfolio Managers that employ
orthogonal and other non-correlated strategies for diversification purposes. Such strategies are mean reverting
strategies that are intended to not correlate to capital markets or the common risk factors associated with either the
fundamental long/short equity or the quantitative equity and futures trading strategies.
Additionally, Omni may employ hedges that seek to reduce unwanted factor risk and market exposures at the aggregate
Omni Fund portfolio level and to allow for efficient utilization of capital.
Risk Premia. Certain Clients may, as a part of their investment strategy, invest in Underlying Investment Funds managed
by an Affiliated Adviser (as defined in Item 10) that invest in a broad set of Risk Premia Investments, including, without
limitation value, carry, curve, trend/momentum, mean reversion, volatility, congestion opportunistic, hedge and other
similar strategies, as well as equity specific low-beta, size, value, quality and momentum strategies.
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The Affiliated Adviser intends to implement the Risk Premia strategy primarily through total return swaps and will gain
such exposure through multiple counterparties. In addition, Risk Premia may also include futures, listed options and
common stocks.
Alternative Lending. The alternative lending fund (the “Alternative Lending Fund”) invests in Alternative Lending
Securities that generate interest or other income streams that offer access to credit risk premium (as defined below).
“Alternative Lending Securities” are loans originated through non-traditional or alternative lending platforms, or securities
that provide the Alternative Lending Fund with exposure to such instruments. The “credit risk premium” is the difference
in return between obligations viewed as low risk, such as high-quality, short-term government debt securities or bonds
of a similar duration and risk profile, and securities issued by private entities or other entities which are subject to credit
risk. The credit risk premium is positive when interest payments or other income streams received in connection with a
pool of Alternative Lending Securities, minus the principal losses experienced by the pool, exceed the rate of return for
risk-free obligations.
The Alternative Lending Fund invests in a broad range of Alternative Lending Securities, including, but not limited to, (1)
consumer loans; (2) small business loans, receivables and/or merchant cash advances; (3) specialty finance loans,
including, but not limited to, automobile purchases, equipment finance, transportation leasing, short-term real estate
financing; (4) tranches of alternative lending securitizations, including, but not limited to, residual interests and/or
majority-owned affiliates (MOAs); and (5) to a lesser extent, fractional interests in alternative lending securities and other
types of equity, debt or derivative instruments that AIP believes are appropriate. The Alternative Lending Fund may also
purchase bonds and other debt securities backed by a pool of Alternative Lending Securities.
Private Markets
AIP Private Markets consists of the Private Equity Solutions business that invests in: (a) primary capital commitments to
private markets Underlying Investment Funds; and (b) Co-Investments; and the Private Equity Secondaries business
that invests in secondary market purchases of Investment Fund interests. Clients may also invest in investments other
than Underlying Investment Funds and Co-Investments.
Portfolio Solutions Group
The Portfolio Solutions Group (“PSG”) has developed proprietary approaches for measuring the risk and return of
alternative investments and incorporating them within a broader portfolio. PSG designs and manages highly customized
multi-asset investment portfolios and advises its clients on all aspects of portfolio construction, including: (i) analyzing
manager performance (both hedge funds and traditional managers); and (ii) creating strategic portfolios that include
equities, fixed income, alternative investments; and developing commitment strategies for private equity and real estate
investments and portfolio transition plans.
Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2023, AIP managed $ 33,651,812,296 in Client assets on a discretionary basis and $ 565,052,265
on a non-discretionary basis for a total of $ 34,216,864,561 in Regulatory Assets Under Management.
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