Goldman Sachs Alternatives is the alternative investment business of Goldman Sachs, focused on private equity, private credit, secondaries, real estate, infrastructure, and growth equity investments.[1]
History
Goldman Sachs has historically invested capital in a variety of businesses alongside its investment banking clients.[2] In the early and mid-1980s, Goldman Sachs was a slow entrant into the financing of leveraged buyouts and junk bonds and preferred to focus on its traditional mergers and acquisitions advisory business. Beginning in 1983, however, Goldman Sachs began making longer-term equity investments in private equity transactions that came through its investment banking and other clients.[3]