Investment Strategies

Fidelity Partners, Inc. seeks to earn above market rates of return on a consistent basis with below market risk to its investors. To implement this strategy, we are guided by the an investment strategy that focuses on:

  1. Purchasing undervalued assets in inefficient markets.
  2. Acquiring assets at a discount to their intrinsic value.
  3. Utilizing event driven sales to create value for sellers and investors.
  4. Actively managing the assets to create value for our partners.

Purchasing undervalued assets in inefficient markets.
Fidelity Partners seeks to acquire undervalued assets in markets that are inefficient. In the early 1990s, the Resolution Trust Corporporation was an inefficient seller of assets. At the same time there was a lack of real estate liquidity and investment capital. These events led to opportunistic purchases of undervalued assets in many classes: business loans, real estate, and tax exempt bonds. Today, the issues involved in analyzing and restructuring real estate debt and equity are often complex, leaving more efficient capital on the sidelines. We search for markets that are difficult to access for most investors, due to timing, complexity, type of asset class and expertise required. These inefficient markets include purchases of assets with environmental problems, properties in need of rehabilitation or repositioning, borrowers in bankruptcy and defaulted bond issues.

Acquiring assets at a discount to their intrinsic value.
Fidelity Partners seeks to capture the difference between the market price of an asset and its intrinsic value. The development of the value analysis may include implementing hands-on value added strategies, such as remediation, rehabilitation and renovation. Fidelity has created a unique process to assist sellers in the disposition of their assets, called The Alchemy Formula™. This process allows us to use our due diligence process to identify intrinsic value and establish a plan to recognize that value for our investors.

Utilizing event driven sales to create value for sellers and investors.
Success at opportunistic purchasing results from creating value for both the buyer and the seller in a transaction. We seek to acquire assets from motivated sellers. Often the catalyst for the sale is an event that causes the seller to offer an asset in a way that precludes efficient marketing. Event driven sales force a seller to sell. These events may be bankruptcy, death, divorce, liquidation of a partnership, litigation, tax sales, foreclosure or a default on a loan, to name a few. For the motivated seller, certainty of a sale may be more important than receiving the highest price possible.

Actively managing the assets to create value for our partners.
Our investment approach requires that we actively manage assets for value creation. We do not buy in markets with a business plan that is dependent on a market improving. Instead, we seek to identify problems that can be solved to create value.

 



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