Updated:
RIAM Alternative Investments
Founded in 2012, RIAM Alternative Investments operates as an international partnership of private equity and real assets professionals. The firm traces its...
RIAM Alternative Investments
Founded in 2012, RIAM Alternative Investments operates as an international partnership of private equity and real assets professionals. The firm traces its origins to the two-decade track record its partners built executing fund commitments, secondary transactions, and direct co-investments on behalf of named family offices and institutional investors. That experience spans buyout, growth, distressed, and special-situations strategies across Europe, emerging markets (including the Pacific region), and the United States. RIAM structures its work along two lines: discrete, time-bound advisory mandates and longer-duration managed accounts. The firm deploys capital across primary fund commitments, secondary purchases, co-investments, and liquidity solutions. Its declared geographic footprint covers European middle-market buyout and growth managers, emerging-market GPs in Asia-Pacific, and select US opportunities. The firm avoids commingled fund-of-funds constructs, positioning its managed accounts as a direct alternative to what it describes as over-diversified, expensive, and opaque standard products. Operational details remain thin. The firm names Philippe Roesch as part of its team and maintains a Beirat (advisory board), but does not disclose total professionals, offices beyond Frankfurt, or aggregate deployment figures. Its website references a client base of family offices and institutional investors and points to an investment history spanning two decades — a timeline that predates the firm’s 2012 founding, reflecting the partners’ prior institutional roles. RIAM’s structural differentiator is its rejection of pooled fund-of-funds architecture in favor of bespoke managed accounts that sit closer to the end investor. This gives each client a dedicated portfolio rather than a slice of a multi-investor pool — an arrangement that allows for concentration, transparency, and alignment that a standard FoF cannot replicate. The firm is independent and unaffiliated with any asset manager, which it argues removes the conflicts embedded in manager-owned FoF platforms.
General information
Firm type
Private Equity
Year founded
2012
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
Europe
Country
Germany
City
Frankfurt
Corporate office
Frankfurt, Germany
Principals
Philippe Roesch
Team
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
How does RIAM Alternative Investments structure client mandates?
RIAM offers two formats: time-limited advisory projects, where it designs or optimizes a private equity program, and long-term managed accounts that give the client a dedicated portfolio of fund commitments, secondaries, and co-investments. The firm explicitly avoids commingled fund-of-funds products, arguing that managed accounts deliver greater transparency and lower fee drag.
What investment strategies does RIAM Alternative Investments cover?
The firm covers buyout, growth, distressed debt, special situations, and real assets, with secondary transactions and co-investments layered across those strategies. Geographically, it targets Europe, emerging markets including the Pacific region, and the United States. The partners’ two decades of prior investing history was built executing all of these strategies on behalf of family offices and institutions.
Does RIAM Alternative Investments manage commingled pooled funds?
No. RIAM positions itself explicitly against standard fund-of-funds vehicles, which it characterizes as over-diversified, expensive, and intransparent. Instead, it structures bespoke managed accounts or fixed-term advisory mandates tailored to a single client’s objectives, giving the client direct ownership of the underlying positions.
Who makes investment decisions at RIAM Alternative Investments?
The firm describes itself as an international partnership of experienced private equity and real assets investment professionals. Philippe Roesch is the only named team member on the website. The partnership also maintains a Beirat (advisory board), though the board’s composition and function are not publicly detailed.
Does RIAM Alternative Investments operate offices outside Frankfurt?
The firm’s public footprint is limited to Frankfurt, Germany. Its website and available records show no additional offices, though its investment mandate spans Europe, emerging markets, and the United States.
Profile maintained by Altss using OSINT (open-source intelligence), regulatory filings, licensed data partners, and verified direct submissions. Read the methodology. Last updated: . Continuous refresh with full update cycles at least every 30 days.
Need institutional-grade insight on private equity firms?
Altss delivers:
Prefer a guided tour?
We’ll walk you through: