Wolfe Research Advisors, LLC (WRA) is an SEC-registered investment adviser and, along with its affiliate WR Securities, LLC (d/b/a Wolfe Research Securities) (“WRS”), a FINRA member broker-dealer and an NFA introducing broker. We provide a range of research and advisory services as well as private fund and special purpose vehicle advisory services.
Research and Advisory Services
WRA provides investment advisory services in the form of research and related advice to institutional clients such as pension plans, corporations, and other business entities. Our primary focus is on providing objective and sophisticated fundamental, quantitative, and macro research.
Our research services include an array of research products and services:
- Research Analyst-prepared written research reports primarily related to US equity securities;
- Corporate access in connection with research conferences, non-deal roadshows, investor meetings;
- Subscriptions to data sets that may be used by institutional clients as inputs for their own internal analysis and investment models;
- Other research-related communications from our industry-leading Research Analysts, including conferences, calls, and client meetings, relating to published research reports produced by Research Analysts;
- Development of proprietary quantitative models designed to identify trading opportunities in various global markets;
- Bespoke research, infrastructure, API, data, and analysis requests to perform back testing of factors and analytics for clients; and
- Bespoke investment advisory services to institutional clients, including pension plans, that is tailored or personalized to the client’s individual investment objectives and investment portfolio, depending on the particular mandate.
Our Research Analysts cover over 800 stocks focusing on over 100 subsectors.
Private Fund and Special Purpose Vehicle Advisory Services
WRA also provides investment advisory and related management services to private investment vehicles (a “Private Fund”), including special purpose vehicles (“SPVs”) that are formed to invest in a single private issuer, a limited number of private issuers, co-investment opportunities alongside other investment advisers or sponsors, or interests in other private investment funds.
Each SPV or other Private Fund is generally formed for a specific investment opportunity and is not intended to be a diversified investment vehicle. The assets and liabilities of each Private Fund are maintained separately, and there is no commingling of assets among Private Funds or with other client accounts.
In our capacity as investment adviser (and in certain cases, as managing member, general partner or equivalent governing person of a Private Fund), we provide advisory and management services solely to the Private Fund, and not to the individual investors in the Private Fund. Investors in a Private Fund do not have an advisory relationship with WRA individually by virtue of their investment or related dealings with WRA.
Our advisory services to Private Funds may include identifying and evaluating investment opportunities, conducting due diligence, negotiating and structuring transactions, monitoring portfolio investments, handling corporate actions, managing dispositions or exits, and administering fund operations in accordance with the applicable governing documents.