Global Investment Solutions

Global Investment Solutions

Global Investment Solutions was founded in 2001 by Ron Riedle, structuring the firm as an RIA that selects and blends external managers rather than running a single-strategy book. The approach targets small to mid-sized institutions, sub-advisory relationships, and family offices that lack internal research teams but still demand institutional-grade due diligence on niche alternative managers — a deliberate gap between large OCIO platforms and do-it-yourself allocators. The firm's portfolio construction spans private credit, real estate, hedge fund strategies, and special-situations mandates, pulling managers that typically run sub-$1B vehicles and remain below the radar of large consultants. Deployment shows up across structured credit partnerships, direct real estate funds, and opportunistic secondaries. Geographic exposure concentrates in US-based sponsors, with select developed-market managers in Europe and Australia. The team operates from Fort Lauderdale, keeping headcount intentionally lean. Unlike the large OCIO aggregators, Global Investment Solutions does not run proprietary commingled funds — each client gets a segregated manager roster assembled to match liquidity constraints and return targets. The firm's ADV filings show a steady base of high-net-worth individuals and smaller institutional accounts, with no push into mass-market retail distribution. Where most multi-manager platforms scale by launching in-house products, GIS stays structurally distinct — it functions as a pure manager selector without proprietary alpha. That independence means it can cut a manager from a client portfolio without eating its own cooking, a governance feature that matters when the underlying managers are small, illiquid, and hard to diligence from a distance.