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Aqua Advisors
Aqua Advisors is an SEC-registered investment adviser since 2021. The firm manages $299 million in regulatory assets, $20 million on a discretionary basis.
Aqua Advisors
Aqua Advisors is an SEC-registered investment adviser since 2021. The firm manages $299 million in regulatory assets, $20 million on a discretionary basis. It has 2 employees and 2 investment advisers.
General information
Firm type
Bank / Wealth / Trust
Year founded
2015
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
Miami
Corporate office
Miami, FL, United States
Principals
Ian Haft
Founder & Managing Partner
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Does Aqua Advisors participate in fund commitments or only direct deals?
The firm primarily structures direct investments rather than committing to pooled third-party water funds. It constructs vehicles around specific water-rights portfolios, treatment-plant acquisitions, and equity stakes in precision-irrigation and treatment-technology companies. This direct-structuring model gives investors transparent exposure to underlying hydrologic and legal collateral rather than manager-level diversification alone.
Is Aqua Advisors structured for permanent capital?
The firm's investment structuring favors permanent-capital and long-dated separate-account arrangements over traditional five-to-seven-year closed-end fund vehicles. Water rights are durable carry assets that do not lend themselves to forced disposition cycles. The structure reduces exit risk for investors and allows the firm to compete with multigenerational family offices that can hold water assets indefinitely.
Which water technologies does Aqua Advisors actively avoid?
The firm generally avoids speculative early-stage water technologies without proven unit economics. Aqua Advisors prefers treatment and recycling technologies with operational track records and contracted revenue, and precision-agriculture tools deployed at commercial scale. It does not invest in atmospheric water generation startups or consumer bottled-water brands, which it views as outside its scarcity-hard-asset mandate.
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