ASCENSION INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT

Overview

Ascension Investment Management operates as a hedge fund manager focused on institutional clients. The firm combines liquid public pooled vehicles with sizable alternative allocations, and provides portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles and for businesses or institutions. It also offers pension consulting and the selection of other advisers, and acts in sponsor and managing member roles for pooled vehicles. Ascension is not positioned as a capital allocator in the sense of a multi-manager allocator; rather it appears to run an internally managed hedge fund while also deploying or accessing third‑party alternative managers. The firm’s investment approach leans on pooled public funds and mutual funds as the core of its liquid exposures, while pairing those with a broad set of alternatives to pursue return enhancement, diversification and liability‑matching for large institutional clients. Ascension is not flagged as an ESG active investor, and its business activity includes CPO/CTA services, suggesting use of derivatives or commodity/managed futures strategies where appropriate.

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