Over the years, Hawkeye has identified a number of trends in the real estate investment advisory community:

• Industry consolidation has left pensions, endowments and foundations with fewer investment options.
• Institutional investors are reluctant to develop new relationships because they are risk averse, have limited resources for conducting due diligence and many new funds are too small to accommodate the amount of capital investors seek to deploy.
• Working directly with real estate owner/operators and developers can help lower costs and increase risk-adjusted return potential.

In response to these trends, we created the Scout Program to act as a facilitator between investors and New Managers.

Scout provides investors access to a select group of talented New Managers. The Program also seeks to provide diversification to a variety of investment strategies, property types and geographic areas to provide favorable risk-adjusted returns, and to create more efficient allocation of capital by encouraging relationships between New Managers and investors.

To attract top-quality, talented New Managers the Program offers: streamlined access to capital, investment discretion, access to working or growth capital, strategic guidance and support and the ability to establish relationships with institutional investors.