History
Ospraie Management, LLC is an investment management firm focused on:
- Acquisition and management of real assets in agriculture, energy, metals & mining, and commodity processing & logistics.
- Directional investing in commodities globally.
- Investing in agricultural technology companies.
Ospraie is a fundamentals-focused asset manager and strategic investor with deep knowledge and network across commodity value chains. We integrate thematic macro trends with disciplined, operational excellence seeking to generate consistent risk-adjusted returns. Our firm has expertise across the investment spectrum, including both liquid and illiquid strategies, and across various levels of capital structures.
Ospraie’s investment approach is based on extensive and detailed fundamental research, industry expertise, and a global network of basic industry and commodity contacts. The firm has managed numerous investment vehicles, including hedge fund products that trade commodity interests and/or basic industry equities, private equity, and venture capital style vehicles focused on businesses in commodity-related industries, special purpose vehicles focused on specific trade or investment ideas, and long-only commodity index products. Ospraie has also seeded or otherwise assisted in the launch of over 20 other investment management firms focused on various aspects of the commodities markets.
Dwight Anderson, the firm’s Managing Partner, launched the original Ospraie Fund in 1999 in partnership with Tudor Investment Corporation (“Tudor”), where he served as Head of the Basic Industries Group, before establishing Ospraie as an independent firm in 2004. Mr. Anderson has over 35 years’ experience investing in commodities and basic industry markets.