Brookfield Asset Management Review

Brookfield Asset Management is a global alternative asset management company. The company diversifies its operational areas through the different industries offering investors well-balanced and potentially lucrative investment opportunities.

The business has corporate locations at below international locations.

• Toronto, Canada
• New York, United States
• London, United Kingdom
• Sydney, Australia
• São Paulo, Brazil
• Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Mumbai, India
• Shanghai, China

Brookfield Asset Management Active Businesses

Real Estate

Brookfield is one of the world's leading real estate developers, buying and running legendary properties in the most diverse markets in the world. The company portfolio covers real estate properties on five continents.

Brookfield invests in almost all different types of real estate projects including retail, multi-family, logistics, hospitality, self-storage, triple net lease, affordable housing, and student house properties.

The company's objective is to generate sustained growth distributions for its investors while safeguarding the investments against potential losses. They really diversify the investments both by industry and geography, lowering any single market's exposure and minimizing the effects of market volatilities.

Brookfield seeks to generate high returns in its public and private financial instruments by integrating its operating expertise and relying on its core real estate capabilities leasing, funding, expansion, design and construction, and property and facility management.

Infrastructure

Brookfield is one of the world's biggest players in infrastructure, acquiring and operating properties spanning industries such as water, transport, electricity, and data infrastructure.

Based on 120 years of experience in the business, its portfolio contains a diversified exposure to scarce, high-quality enterprises with substantial barriers to entry.

The company invests in capital projects that provide essential goods and services. To name it, from passengers and cargo transport to toll roads and rail networks, to power generation and other goods being distributed through ports and pipelines, and so much more.

Renewable Power

Brookfield is one of the biggest renewable energy players in the world, with electricity production of over 19,000 megawatts.

Its investments based in North and South America, Europe, India and China, included a large hydro, wind , solar power base, smart grids, storage, and other alternative energies.

The company uses its truly operational global distribution platform and in-house expertise to maintain facilities, add value organically, integrate new assets efficiently, realizing efficiency gains in the process.

Brookfield is fuelled by stable cash flows, with most of its power being contracted with long-term inflation-linked contracts.

Private Equity

Brookfield venture capital business means acquiring high-quality enterprises with entry barriers and augmenting their working capital capacities through improved planning and implementation.

To build value, the company applies its global investment and organizational experience and works closely with management teams to allow long-term sustainability through organizational and other enhancements.

Oaktree

Oaktree is a multinational alternative fund manager with a diversified combination of opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled investing through credit and other platforms for investing.

Based on its six principles of risk management, continuity, industry inefficiency, differentiation, bottom-up insight, and disavowal of market timing, Oaktree's seasoned team of investment experts, regional reach, and unifying investing strategy has rendered it a recognized pioneer in credit investing.

Brookfield acquired a majority stake in Oaktree in 2019 and continues to operate as a stand-alone business. These two organizations share fundamental values and a long-term, value-driven, and contrary approach to investment, with a focus on capital downside protection.

Brookfield and Oaktree together hold more than $515 billion of assets under management and offer investors one of the most comprehensive alternative investment offerings.

Shareholders

Brookfield Asset Management

Brookfield Asset Management is a world ’s leading alternative asset manager with funds under management of $515 billion through real estate, infrastructure, clean energies, private equity, and finance. Its aim to achieve healthy, risk-adjusted long-term returns for the betterment of its shareholders and investors.

It provides a variety of products for institutional and corporate investors. To do so, it earns asset management revenue and aligns its interests with its customers by investing along with them.

The company has an extraordinarily well-calculated balance sheet, investing more than $30 billion in the capital, mainly in its four listed commitments: Brookfield Property Partners, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Renewable Partners, and Brookfield Business Partners.

This exposure to large-scale resources allows the company to make investments through regions of the world and asset groups that few managers can make in big, leading properties and businesses.

Brookfield Property Partners

Brookfield Property Partners (NASDAQ: BPY, TSX: BPY.UN) (“BPY”) is a wide and diverse global real estate company which owns, operates and grows one of the greatest portfolios of offices, retail, residential property, industrial, hospitality, triple net lease, self-storage, social housing and manufactured housing holdings.

Its investment goal is to produce lucrative 12%-15% long-term equity returns based on steady cash flows, asset valuation, and 5%-8% growth in annual delivery.

The business strives to achieve this goal by purchasing high-quality assets in stable and competitive markets and seeking long term growth in all geographic areas and real estate industries, and constantly recycling resources from balanced assets at or near peak prices into higher-yielding strategies; BPY's portfolio includes some of the most reputable commercial properties in the nation.

Brookfield Property REIT (NASDAQ: BPYU) (“BPYU”) is a BPY company designed to offer an economic alternative to BPY units of customers, albeit in the form of a U.S. Security REIT.

Dividends on BPYU securities are similar in the volume and timing of dividends paid out on BPY units, and BPYU securities can be traded on BPY units or their cash counterparts on a 1:1 basis.

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. is one of the major owners and managers of vital and complex global infrastructure networks that facilitate electricity, water, transport, passenger and data movement, and storage.

The company aims to achieve a %12-15 long-term return on investment and have secure distribution for shareholders while achieving %5-9 growth in annual revenue.

The strategy of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. is to acquire value-based enterprises of high quality, closely monitor operations and opportunistically sell assets in order to recoup money into the business.

After its inception in 2008, the organization has set a consistent success record, producing average annual cumulative returns of %15.

Brookfield Renewable Partners

Brookfield Renewable Partners runs one of the biggest publicly traded clean energy companies in the world. The inventory comprises about 19,300 MW of power and 5,288 generating plants in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.

Its investment focus is to achieve %1 – %15 long-term annualized total returns, including a %5 – %9 increase in annual distribution from organic cash flow growth and development of projects.

This has a proven track record of value development by prudently obtaining, developing, and financing assets and effectively maintaining their operations.

The business is a world pioneer in hydroelectric production, contributing about %74 of its portfolio. This is also an accomplished regional wind, solar, distributed generation, and storage facility owner, operator, and developer.

Brookfield Business Partners

Brookfield Business Partners acquires high-quality companies and leverages its institutional management and operating experience to generate value, focused on sustainability, healthy margins, and positive cash flows.

It works closely with project managers to achieve long-term business success, targeting market leaders as well as businesses geared to growth through operational and other innovations.

These are typically businesses with high entry barriers, low cost of development and the ability to benefit from the global experience of Brookfield as a real asset owner and operator.

Brookfield Business Partners has the adaptability to invest in different markets and in many different forms. Its current operations are mainly in the areas of business services, construction, energy, and industrial.

The investment goal of Brookfield Business Partners is to achieve long-term returns on its assets of at least %15.

Brookfield Fund Investors

Private Funds

Brookfield offers a number of private fund investment opportunities for institutional investors across the risk-return range, focusing on real estate, infrastructure and private equity.

Brookfield doesn’t only work with investors’ capital. In fact they invest their own money together with the investors. 

Well, you may be thinking that may be only a symbolic amount. You’re wrong. 

Over 30% of the assets under their management is their own money. By investing their money, they prove they spend the time and energy to put necessary research for any investment they make. 

As they state on their site, they want to drive sustainable growth, long-term risk-adjusted returns for their investors delivering the highest quality service.

Public Securities

Investing in outlined real assets may offer multiple benefits including the potential for significant current income, long-term capital growth, and hedge against inflation.

Brookfield ‘s Public Securities Division represents companies and individuals pursuing real estate investment opportunities through listed equity and debt strategies which are actively controlled.

The company follows a strong value-oriented strategy that is specifically customized to understand the investment risks and use proprietary valuation methods to spot underpriced securities.

Since 1989, Brookfield has been consistently invested in capital markets, at this time there are $14 billion assets under management on behalf of financial firms, retirement accounts, insurance firms, high net worth private investors.