|
|
The Flowers and Fruehauf families together created Sentinel Trust in 1997. The Fruehauf family's story begins with the invention of the semi-trailer in 1914 by August Fruehauf. By the late 1990s, the family had diversified holdings in public equities, hedge funds, and private equity, including investments in Georgia Pacific and Burger King. A family of engineers, the Flowers family began its legacy of innovation with H. Fort Flowers. H. Fort invested in a number of businesses primarily in banking and mining. He expanded into the energy industry by purchasing an operating oil & gas company in 1957. The firm's private equity portfolio is a fund-of-fund structure. Private equity strategies focus on three broad areas: Corporate Finance includes strategies such as leveraged buyouts, mezzanine financing, expansion capital, and distressed debt; Venture Capital strategies invest at the early stage of a business' life cycle, perhaps even before the business has any revenues; Real Estate investments include commercial properties such as last mile industrial warehouses, residential properties such as apartment complexes, non-traditional real estate assets like data centers and cell towers, timber, agriculture, and energy-producing assets.
|
