What We Do

We are a global investment and asset management firm.

Where value investing meets
investors
with values.

Deals and relationships, both should be built to last.

We bring operational excellence.

Our experience lets us see opportunity clearly.

We build opportunities with investors.

We are driven by the power of the unseen deal.

We are not just investors, we are invested.

We create deals that defy conventional thinking.


Our investment approach

We identify themes and opportunities and capitalize on them while staying true to our investment philosophy.

30 St Clair Ave W | Toronto, ON

1

Basis

We maintain an unwavering focus on underlying fundamental value when evaluating market opportunities. This reduces risk, protects capital, and increases returns.

2

Proactive

We have a bias for action and apply an active hands-on asset management approach to what we do. This means being decisive, acting with urgency, delivering excellence, and innovating every time.

3

Perspective

We go where others are not. We are thematic investors and focus on key economic drivers and underlying fundamentals to select the opportunities we pursue.

Our Business

Slate’s Investment Platform

Our investment platform is centered around four pillars with thematic strategies spanning the risk spectrum from core-plus to opportunistic.

  • Real Estate Equity

  • Real Estate Credit

  • Infrastructure

  • Securities

Opportunistic & Value Add
Core Plus & Income
Development

We invest in opportunistic and value-add real estate across all asset classes in North America and Europe. We focus on single asset repositioning or redevelopment, cyclical investment opportunities and portfolio opportunities. We put our fundamental value investing philosophy to work by acquiring assets that others overlook at an attractive basis and applying our hands-on asset management expertise.

Private

Our core-plus and income strategies target the acquisition of cash-yielding, stabilized essential real estate assets in North America and Europe that are critical to the supply chain, such as grocery, healthcare assets, and affiliated warehouses and logistics centers.

 

Public

We manage two publicly-listed investment vehicles: 

Slate Grocery REIT
Slate Office REIT 

Our in-house development team has a history of global development deals and works across all asset classes. Our capabilities span the entire spectrum of residential and commercial development, including ground-up and repositioning opportunities. We invest in key urban markets with consistent and expected growth, and we target transit-oriented infill sites and complex land assemblies.

Developments

Opportunistic & Value Add

We invest in opportunistic and value-add real estate across all asset classes in North America and Europe. We focus on single asset repositioning or redevelopment, cyclical investment opportunities and portfolio opportunities. We put our fundamental value investing philosophy to work by acquiring assets that others overlook at an attractive basis and applying our hands-on asset management expertise.

Core Plus & Income

Private

Our core-plus and income strategies target the acquisition of cash-yielding, stabilized essential real estate assets in North America and Europe that are critical to the supply chain, such as grocery, healthcare assets, and affiliated warehouses and logistics centers.

 

Public

We manage two publicly-listed investment vehicles: 

Slate Grocery REIT
Slate Office REIT 

Development

Our in-house development team has a history of global development deals and works across all asset classes. Our capabilities span the entire spectrum of residential and commercial development, including ground-up and repositioning opportunities. We invest in key urban markets with consistent and expected growth, and we target transit-oriented infill sites and complex land assemblies.

Developments

Slate Real Estate Capital (SREC) provides transitional capital and flexible liquidity to strong sponsors and assets across the commercial real estate industry, benefitting from market intelligence and underwriting perspectives generated across the Slate organization. Our expertise includes:

Whole Loans
Origination and acquisition of transitional and bridge loans across all asset classes.

Mezzanine Loans & Preferred Equity
Basis-focused approach to investing in junior credit positions and structured preferred equity, including balance sheet liquidity solutions and construction mezzanine.

Debt Securities
Targeting attractive relative value commercial real estate debt securities, including CMBS, CRE CLO, and Unsecured REIT debt.

Our investment strategy is focused on investing in companies and projects that provide critical and sustainable infrastructure for cities and communities.

Renewable Generation
Critical investment in renewable generation infrastructure for the supply of electricity and heating/cooling.

Decarbonization and Resiliency
Investment in decarbonization, resiliency and grid stability for overall energy demand reduction and decentralization.

Electrification
Shift in demand presents substantial investment opportunities in electrification of transportation and energy consumption.

Sustainability
Investment in sustainability of critical supply chain, reduction in waste and telecommunications.

Our investment management business is dedicated to real estate investing across the public and private real estate markets. Our teams leverage the collective Slate knowledge to make better decisions in public and private securities. Through our Securities platform, we also provide clients with access to Slate Asset Management’s investment opportunities.

A specialist asset manager focused on global listed real estate securities partnering with institutional investors, wholly owned by Slate Asset Management.

 

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THE SLATE DIFFERENCE

We are a dynamic, global organization with a reputation for bringing innovative opportunities to our partners and executing with excellence as a team.

Sayed M. Alaali, Senior Vice President | London, UK

Global
Footprint

We have a unique perspective

Institutionally validated, internationally regulated

Regulated by the SEC and CSA, with ESG embedded across our platform

Technologically
Innovative

Our proprietary analytics software platform integrates all aspects of Slate’s operations

Nimble &

Entrepreneurial

Strong culture that rewards creativity and hustle

Proactive, hands-on approach

Experienced owner-operators with a hands-on approach to asset management

Owned & controlled by the management team

Alignment of interests through equity investments in all our vehicles

Our focus on ESG

Buildings, communities, and value – for the long term.

We are focused on embedding leading ESG strategies across our business to enhance value for our partners, reduce environmental impact, deliver healthy and resilient spaces for our tenants and communities, and provide an engaging workplace for our employees.

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PODCAST

Slated to Discuss

Welcome to Slated to Discuss, a podcast by Slate Asset Management. Slated to Discuss will feature fresh and forward-thinking perspectives from thought leaders and trailblazers, interviewed by a rotation of Slate leaders. Here, we will explore trends, developments, and issues shaping the world of real estate and infrastructure.

 

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