4 (A) Advisory Business Descriptions
Water Asset Management, LLC is the investment adviser for various investment funds
created to capitalize on global investment opportunities in water, wastewater, water
infrastructure and water-related industries. The Adviser firmly believes that water and its
related infrastructure are at a key inflection point driven by unavoidable need for capital
spending and productivity focused investment. Currently the worldwide water industry is
experiencing rising demand for water while supply is being constrained by overuse, poor
management, underinvestment, climate change, and pollution. These factors have led to an
increasing scarcity of inexpensive, safe, and reliable water supply alternatives. The Adviser
believes that such supply and quality concerns will yield significant capital investment
opportunities. Presently the Adviser anticipates that hundreds of billions of dollars of
capital expenditures in the United States, with similar expenditures worldwide, will be
required over the next several decades to build new, and upgrade existing, water and
wastewater systems and infrastructure. Furthermore, the Adviser believes that water
quality treatment and monitoring requirements will prompt significant technological
change. Water Asset Management, LLC believes that these factors and others are
producing a period of transformation in the industry in which a limited number of water
companies and a select number of water assets will prosper, offering investors the ability
to realize substantial capital appreciation as well as sustainable long-term income, with
relatively low levels of risk and volatility.
Water Asset Management, LLC has been in business since January 2006.
The principal owners are:
Matthew J. Diserio
President of the General Partner and a Managing Member and is chiefly responsible for the
Fund’s public investment portfolio. He has been active in the securities and hedge fund
management business since 1982. In 1996, Mr. Diserio founded Diserio Capital
Management, LLC, a long/short U.S. equity, value-oriented investment partnership. From
1994 to 1996, Mr. Diserio was a general partner and portfolio manager with Water Street
Capital. From 1990 to 1994 he was a First Vice President and special situations senior
analyst in the equity research division of Paine Webber, Inc. Mr. Diserio holds a Bachelor of
Arts degree from Bowdoin College.
Disque D. Deane, Jr.
Originated the investment strategy of the Fund and is the Chief Investment Officer of the
General Partner and a Managing Member. He is primarily responsible for the private equity
and water resources investments. Mr. Deane has approximately 25 years’ experience in the
water industry and more than 30 years’ experience in securities investments. He has
worked for, partnered with, and invested in, a few niche players in the water sector and has
developed an extensive and diverse network of industry contacts as well as a unique
understanding of the sector’s character, challenges, risks and opportunities. In 2001, he co-
founded Western Development and
Storage, a water rights development company, which
in 2002 formed Layne Water Development and Storage, a joint venture with the Layne
Christensen Corporation, a Nasdaq-listed water drilling and mining concern. Mr. Deane
served as President of the joint venture until December 2003, when the interest of Western
Development and Storage was acquired by Layne Christensen Corporation. Mr. Deane
holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University and an MBA from I.N.S.E.A.D.
4 (B) Advisory Services Offered
Water Asset Management, LLC provides advisory services through limited partnership
interests in various Funds investing predominately in water, wastewater and water-related
companies and assets.
Water Asset Management, LLC is an adviser to a global long/short hedge fund investing in
equities of approximately 200 water companies that are publicly-traded in markets
throughout the world, including the Unites States, Canada, South America, Europe, and
Asia. The long/short hedge fund provides limited partners an opportunity to invest up to
10% of their investment in private equity water investments.
Water Asset Management, LLC is an adviser to various private equity investment vehicles
which seek opportunities in select water resource assets in the United States such as water
rights and water rich agriculture properties.
Water Asset Management, LLC is an adviser to a long only global water public equity
investment fund focusing on long –term investments in water companies that are publicly-
traded in markets throughout the world, including the United States, Canada, South
America, Europe, and Asia. This partnership offers Class A and Class B interest which are
identical except are subject to different management fees and performance allocations.
Water Asset Management, LLC is also adviser to separately managed accounts focusing on
long –term investments in water companies that are publicly-traded in markets throughout
the world, including the United Stated, Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia.
Water Asset Management, LLC is also a sub-advisor to a long only water public equity
investment fund focusing on long-term investment in water companies that are publicly
traded in the United States as well as long/short virtual portfolio. Water Asset
Management, LLC also maintains a trade data sharing agreements with an analytics firms
and uses their services to assist in portfolio management.
4 (C) Advisory Service Exceptions
Water Asset Management, LLC provides investors in the long/short hedge fund the option
to “opt out” of private equity illiquid side pocket investments. Other clients establishing
managed accounts can impose investment restrictions on specific securities and/or
security types (i.e. derivatives, precluded markets, etc.).
4 (D) Wrap Fee Program
Water Asset Management, LLC does not participate in wrap fee programs.
4 (E) Managed client assets
The total assets managed by Water Asset Management as of March 30, 2024 is $690
million. These assets are managed on a discretionary basis. Water Asset Management does
not manage assets on a non-discretionary basis.