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2018 Account Planning
RM contribution
Relationship Name: Third Lake Capital
Banker Team:
Stewart Oldfield
GCIS Number: 00000490359
Relationship Team:
ISG: Andrew King
DPM: Paul Bartilucci
KCP: Matt Glassman
Lending: Laura Farischon
Trust/Custody:
WPS: Sam Petrucci
Deposits: Charlie Burrows
Other:
Client Profile
Third Lake Capital (TLC) is a single family office that exclusively manages
the capital of the family of Ronald Wanek (Forbes 400 family), founder of
Ashley Furniture. Established in 2013, TLC is an investment firm primarily
focused on the following investment activities:
Traditional private equity investments
Direct real estate investments
Selectively investing with established third-party managers including
private equity funds, private debt funds and hedge funds
This relationship was brought to Deutsche Bank by former banker Paul Morris
in October 2014 and managed by Stewart Oldfield thereafter. There is weekly
contact with the family office. DB currently holds over $80mn in AUMs for
the Wanek family's wealth. This includes trust deposit accounts, CD's, DB AG
accounts, and personal joint accounts. Aside from DB, the family has banking
relationships at Goldman Sachs and TD Ameritrade. Current contacts for this
relationship are:
Ken Jones — CEO
Paul Watson — CIO
Robert Forsythe — VP Investments, grandson of Ron Wanek
Ashley Furniture is the world's largest furniture manufacturer and retailer
headquartered in Arcadia, WI. The company is owned by father and son team
Ron and Todd Wanek. Ashley Furniture manufactures and distributes home
furniture products throughout the world through two distribution channels:
independent furniture dealers and more than 500 Ashley Furniture HomeStore
retail stores which are independently owned and operated by licensees in the
US, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and Japan.
Family net worth is estimated at $10bn, most of which is Ashley.
Opportunities and Challenges
Third Lake is a relatively new family office and our relationship has grown
steadily as they have grown.
The family office initially focused on making direct private investments,
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but that has changed and they are focused on building a more diversified
portfolio with more external management
The family has started to increase the annual distributions they take from
Ashley, so their investing has ramped up. They have focused on a lot of
real estate and structured finance funds. They understand consumer risk
quite well and like yield. We show them all ISG fund offerings and expect
to focus on Harvest in Ql. They were very interested in Virage, but our
mandate there fell apart.
They are also highly underexposed to public equities and looking to catch
up. However, there is a debate between the family office and the family
about how much risk is appropriate to take in this area. We have agreed to
discuss DPM as a potential solution early this year.
On the lending side, we occasionally get the opportunity to look at
commercial mortgages via the investment bank. They also own a consumer
finance business that is growing quickly and will need a conduit line or
other structured credit solution.
The two main challenges to doing more business are competition and
complexity. The family office is extremely well connected and increasingly
well banked. Despite the sophistication of the family office, however, the
family tends to shy away from complex investments and often has unrealistic
expectations about the amount of risk they need to take to earn a return
they like.
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