First Trust Capital Management L.P. (“FTCM”) is an asset management firm that specializes in providing diversified alternative and income oriented investments as an adviser or manager to public and private investment funds as well as separately managed accounts for other RIAs. FTCM has particular expertise in real estate, private equity, private credit, real assets and hedge fund investments.  FTCM has an investment research team, First Trust Alternative Investment Research (“FTAIR”), that performs due diligence on managers across all asset classes and strategies, and maintains a proprietary database of firms, portfolio managers, and their investment products.