General Description of Brown Advisory
Brown Advisory Investment Solutions Group LLC (“BAISG” and, together with its relying
adviser, NextGen Venture Partners, LLC (“NGVP”), the “firm” or “we”) is an investment adviser
specializing in alternative investments. BAISG was founded in 2002 and is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Brown Advisory Management LLC (“BAM”). BAM is a wholly-owned subsidiary
of Brown Advisory Group Holdings, LLC (“BAGH”). The managing member of BAM is Brown
Advisory Incorporated, a Maryland corporation (“BAI”).
Advisory Services
BAISG offers the following advisory services: 1) discretionary or non-discretionary investment
advisory services to BAISG-sponsored private funds, and 2) non-discretionary investment
advisory services to individuals and institutions. BAISG’s advisory services are generally limited
to alternative investments. However, from time to time, the firm also provides non-discretionary
asset allocation recommendations to clients seeking recommendations on both alternative and
traditional investment portfolios.
Private Funds
The firm offers investment advice to a variety of single-strategy, multi-strategy and direct
investment private funds sponsored by BAISG. The firm provides discretionary advice to broad
multi-strategy funds covering many asset classes and investment approaches, and focused multi-
strategy funds based on specific investment approaches (private equity, venture capital, private
credit, real estate, global macro strategies, event-driven strategies, etc.). It offers non-discretionary
investment advice to single-strategy funds that invest in a portfolio company or with a specific
private equity or hedge fund manager.
The firm’s principals leverage their expertise in alternative investments to build funds, including
fund-of-funds, focused on managers and portfolio companies within the private equity, private
credit, private real estate, venture capital and hedge fund universes.
In its fund-of-funds business, BAISG focuses on investing with established managers and firms.
Most multi-strategy funds are relatively concentrated and invest in what BAISG views as top
investment managers and ideas. The firm also offers venture capital funds that provide direct
investments in early-stage companies. For certain of these investments, we leverage a network of
relationships to help us develop insight into industry sectors and companies in which we invest.
Individual and Institutional Clients
The firm also offers investment advice to individual and institutional clients in the form of asset
allocation and portfolio construction recommendations as well as recommendations regarding
specific investment managers. From time to time, the firm also provides certain clients with non-
advisory services, such as reporting on private equity holdings, providing administrative services
to certain fund clients, such as accounting and tax reporting, and providing due diligence reports
and other information with respect to underlying funds and unaffiliated advisers. Engagements
with clients are characterized by attention to individual client returns, volatility and downside
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protection targets; portfolios focused on what the firm views as reputable managers in the industry;
and in-depth communication with clients about the strategies of those managers, how those
managers are performing and whether those managers’ ongoing portfolio decisions are consistent
with their stated strategies. The firm strives to achieve efficient diversification of portfolios – for
example, we seek to construct portfolios that are relatively concentrated among top-tier managers,
but that include managers with relatively
low performance correlation to each other, subject to the
client’s objectives and available investment opportunities. We believe that this approach offers the
potential for meaningful outperformance while maintaining moderate volatility and downside
protection.
Interests in BAISG’s private funds are privately offered only to eligible investors pursuant to
exemptions available under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the
regulations promulgated thereunder. Such investment vehicles are not registered with the SEC as
investment companies based on specific exclusions from the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended (the “Investment Company Act”). Therefore, investors in such funds are not subject to
the protections afforded by regulation under the Investment Company Act. Typically, interests in
such investment vehicles are offered primarily to high net worth individuals as well as to
institutional investors. Employees of BAISG and its affiliates may invest alongside other investors
and advisory clients. Other qualified individuals who may not be employees or advisory clients of
BAISG or another Brown Advisory entity, but who have pre-existing business relationships with
the firm or its affiliates or industry expertise in the sector in which a fund may be investing, also
may participate alongside other investors.
Tailored Advice and Client-Imposed Restrictions
Each private fund sponsored by the firm has its own investment objectives, strategies and
restrictions. Certain funds focus on a narrow investment strategy while others pursue a broad
investment strategy. BAISG prepares offering materials with respect to each fund that contain
more detailed information, typically including a description of the investment objective and
strategy or strategies employed and any related restrictions.
These offering materials serve as a limitation on the scope of BAISG’s investment management
of the fund. Separate account clients can also impose restrictions on the firm’s management of
individual accounts through documents that set forth the investment program for the client. While
separate accounts may be reasonably tailored based on the individual needs of a client, as agreed
to with BAISG, none of the funds are tailored to meet the individualized investment needs of any
particular investor. Furthermore, an investment in a fund does not create a client-adviser
relationship between BAISG and an investor. Further discussion of the strategies, investments and
risks associated with a fund or separate account management is included in the relevant materials
for each type of client.
Clients and investors must consider whether an investment in a particular fund or establishing an
advisory relationship with BAISG is appropriate to their own circumstances based on all relevant
factors including, but not limited to, the client’s or investor’s own investment objectives, liquidity
requirements, tax situation and risk tolerance. Prospective clients and investors are strongly
encouraged to undertake appropriate due diligence, including but not limited to a review of
relevant offering materials for the funds or the documents relating to the proposed investment
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program for the separate account and the additional details about the firm’s investment strategies,
methods of analysis and related risks in Item 8 of this Brochure, before making an investment
decision.
Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2023 the firm had approximately $7.3 billion in assets under management. Of
that total, approximately $3.5 billion represented discretionary assets and $3.8 billion represented
non-discretionary assets.