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Fortress Investment Group, headquartered in New York with offices in Charlotte, London, Munich, Rome, Shanghai, Sydney, and other cities around the world, is a global leader in alternative asset management with over $32 billion of assets currently under management.
Founded in 1998, Fortress has invested over $19 billion of private equity funds in undervalued assets and companies with the potential for value growth through intensive guidance and participatory management. Fortress focuses on five major sectors, including financial services, media and leisure, real estate, senior living, and transportation.
Fortress also maintains two liquid hedge funds totaling $4.5 billion of assets under management. The Fortress Macro Funds focus on currency, fixed income, equity and commodities markets in order to capitalize on global value differentials, and the Fortress Commodities Fund takes directional positions in industrial equities, resource-related equities, commodities-related equities, and global commodities.
Prominent portfolio companies and investments of Fortress Investment group include RailAmerica, Inc., Canadian resort operator Intrawest, GateHouse Media, and Brookdale Senior Living Inc. Fortress was also a leading lender to the Millennium Development Group, responsible for constructing the Olympic Village for the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games of 2010.
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