| MANAGERS AT THE SUMMIT |
Altiq Asset Management
Strategy: CTAs/ Managed Futures
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Altiq was founded in 2009 with the vision of creating a product focused firm, looking to provide innovative investment solutions through a research driven approach and state of the art technology.
Altiq Global Program is a managed futures quant strategy with 100% automated portfolio construction and order execution. The risk is split across three groups of models: trend following (40%), mean reversion (20%) and macro (40%). The strategy actively trades 55 liquid futures markets across equity indices, bonds, currencies and commodities, with an average holding period of 2-3 days.
www.altiq.com
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Aventicum Capital
Strategy: Equity
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Aventicum is a multi-boutique asset management joint venture between Credit Suisse and Qatar Holding. The business pursues an entrepreneurial and unconstrained boutique approach (four distinct investment boutiques, each focused on a specialist investment strategy) with the institutional strength, governance and capital support of Credit Suisse and the Qatari Investment Authority.
www.aventicum.com
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Beach Horizon LLP
Strategy: CTAs/ Managed Futures
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Beach Horizon LLP is a UK-based systematic quantitative trend following managed futures manager regulated by the FCA (UK), the CFTC and the NFA (US), and founded in March 2004 by David Beach, Sanjeev Lakhanpal and Dr Paul Netherwood. The Beach Horizon Programme (Inception May 2005) trades a highly diversified portfolio of over 135 global commodity and financial futures markets with a unique pattern recognition overlay added to the systems in late 2013.
www.beachhorizon.com
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Blue Bay Asset Management
Strategy: Credt
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BlueBay is a leading global next generation fixed income asset manager. Headquartered in London with offices in the US, Japan, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Ireland and Luxembourg, we manage over US$61 billion for institutions and high-net worth individuals (as at 30 June 2015). With our hedge fund heritage and by staying true to our specialist fixed income roots, we pioneer new investment strategies using our broad range of sub-asset class expertise, with a focus on absolute return and capital preservation. We invest for our clients across the fixed income spectrum on a global scale, from active long-only (benchmark aware) portfolios to hedge funds/private debt. We also blend investment styles and use a range of sophisticated tools in order to exploit all factors of return.
www.bluebay.com
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Butler Investment Managers
Butler Investment Managers Limited (“BIML”) is a specialist European Credit investment manager founded in 2008 by Walter Butler, founder of Butler Industries. BIML leverages off of Walter Butler’s expertise in exploiting niche, underfollowed growth opportunities. The investment team, working together since 2006, has strong European High Yield experience. We have consistently demonstrated our ability to pursue the best opportunities through different market cycles. The Firm operates on an Institutional platform in London (Investment Manager) and Paris (Investment Advisor) and is FCA regulated.
Cephei Capital
Strategy: Equity
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Cephei Capital, founded in 2006, is a China investment manager specialized in managing overseas institutional investors’ capital in China A-share market via QFII/RQFII scheme with AUM of USD2.5bn. We adopt rigorous fundamental driven bottom up stock picking investment approach with long term investment horizon, and generated strong returns with lower volatilities in the past nine years. We have two strategies, long only absolute return and long only index enhanced, and two product formats, managed accounts and commingled QFII fund.
www.cdhfund.com
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CF Partners
Strategy: Equity
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CF Partners Asset Management is
part of the CF Partners group, an advisory, trading and investments firm
founded in 2006. CF Partners specialises in the commodities, energy and
renewable markets covering over 500 clients globally including governments, state
owned entities, multi-national industrials and financial institutions. CF
Partners UK has achieved high rankings in industry awards.
www.cf-partners.com
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CQS
Strategy: Ucits compliant funds
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Founded in 1999, CQS is a $13.8bn global multi-strategy asset management firm with over 270 staff located globally, 86 of whom are specialist investment professionals. Since launching its first strategy in March 2000, CQS has expanded to manage alternative, long-only and bespoke mandates for institutional investors in the areas of multi-strategy, convertibles, asset backed securities, credit, loans and equities. The firm’s track record is underpinned by fundamental research and quantitative analysis, with robust institutional operational and risk management platforms. CQS is a founding member of the Hedge Fund Standards Board and is regulated by the FCA in the UK, the SFC in Hong Kong, ASIC in Australia and registered with the SEC in the US.
www.cqscapital.com
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Dominice & Co Asset Management
Strategy: Ucits compliant funds
Dominicé & Co – Asset Management is a Swiss regulated investment management company. Since 2003 it offers specialized investment products and services with the aim of preserving capital and delivering positive performance in various market environments. The company is active in global equity and equity derivatives markets, Swiss real estate and private wealth management.
Cassiopeia UCITS follows the company’s flagship
strategy, which uses a quantitative approach based on the behavioral bias of
equity investors with respect to risk and volatility, to generate absolute
return that is uncorrelated to equity markets
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Emso
Emso is a $2.2bn alternative asset manager with a 15+ year track record of investing in Emerging Markets fixed income. Emso with headquarters in London and an office in New York, launched its first fund 2000 and now manages a range of EM funds, our flagship long/short credit/macro hedge fund utilizes value-oriented strategies, which have historically offered both upside potential and downside protection. Long-term performance has been characterised by consistent alpha generation with low volatility in a historically highly volatile asset class.
Strategy: CTA/ Managed Futures
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Episteme Capital is a global investment manager formed in 2009. Episteme’s flagship fund is Systematic Quest, a systematic global macro strategy that trades futures and foreign exchange forwards and is also available as a managed account. Episteme Capital also manages Global Liquidity Opportunities, a short-term global fixed income trading program available as a managed account.
Episteme Capital’s main office in London, UK and has an office in Rye Brook, NY. Adrian Eterovic is CEO/CIO (London). We have nine total principals and employees and currently manage approximately $500 Million.
www.epistemecap.com
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Finex
Strategies: CTAs/ Managed Futures; Ucits compliant funds
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Finex is an asset manager that specialises in Multi-Asset Futures. Andrew Gebhardt, Marcello Bugnoli and Michael Carney created Finex in 2010. The partners specialise in the application of completely distinct Technical Analysis methods to cover all market conditions. Through their Navigator UCITS IV Fund and through Managed Accounts, Finex offers a Multi Strategy approach to Managed Futures that results in low volatility, low correlation and steady returns.
www.finexlondon.com
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Granite
Strategies: CTAs/ Managed Futures; Ucits compliant funds
www.graniteportfolios.com
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Halkin Asset Management
Strategy: Equity specialists
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www.halkinam.com
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IMC Asset Management
Strategy: Credit
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www.imc.nl/assetmanagement
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Insch Invest
Strategy: CTAs/ Managed Futures
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Insch Capital Management SA (“Insch”) is a privately owned alternative investment manager and is headquartered in Lugano, Switzerland. The firm is active in the field of asset management, investment consultancy and private equity. Insch is becoming a leader in the Alternative Investment Industry by developing strategies and investment opportunities that offer superior absolute returns commensurate with an acceptable level of risk. This is being achieved through detailed quantitative research, exhaustive systems testing, robust portfolio construction and thorough due diligence.
www.inschinvest.com
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ISAM
Strategy: CTAs/ Managed Futures
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ISAM is an alternative investment manager which specializes in systematic quantitative investing. The management team has amassed over 150 years of experience in the institutional alternative asset management space and in systematic investing in particular.
Fundamental to our approach is a systematic management of risk using mathematical techniques and diversification across a wide stream of factors to deliver a balanced portfolio. ISAM has focused its internal efforts on forging the high grade research and development team to deliver this approach within an institutional context.
www.isam.com
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KenTyde
Strategy: CTAs/ Managed Futures
www.kentyde.com
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Lombard Odier Investment Managers
Strategy: Ucits compliant funds
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FELS
builds on the success of 8-year old 1798 hedge fund strategy. It follows a
multi portfolio manager approach with the CIO allocating capital dynamically to
six sector specialists. It seeks to generate uncorrelated returns with small
net exposure and low concentration. Targets: +8% p.a, half the volatility of
equities.
www.loim.com
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MacroMoney
Strategy: Equity
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Macromoney is a fund manager for high net worth individuals and institutional clients worldwide. We are focused on concentrated investments in securities, futures and options listed on the main stock exchanges. The fund strategy is global macro with equity bias.
www.macromoney.com
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Mako Global Investors
Strategy: Equity
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Mako Global Investors, founded in 2012, provides investment management services to the Fund. MGI is an AIFM under the AIFMD directive. The Mako Group has been providing operational services and support in asset management since 2002. MGI was appointed as Investment Manager of CT Invest Fund Ltd on 22 September 2014, a generalist fundamental European Equity Long/Short Fund with a focus on cyclicals and industrials as well as German speaking countries.
www.makoglobal.com
Montello Capital Management
Strategy: Credit
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Montello is a private credit fund manager, with a focus on UK real estate. Montello invests in short-term secured lending opportunities in core UK real estate markets.
Montello has a track record of delivering unlevered returns of 8-10% per annum in each year since inception in 2008.
www.montello.co.uk
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Numen Capital
Strategy: Credit
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Numen
is a longstanding absolute return asset management firm, running both offshore
and UCITS funds, with over $1 billion of AUM. Its investment expertise is
focused on liquid and super‐liquid credit markets, with a strong track record
in the application of intensive credit analysis to both old and new credit
risks.
www.numencapital.com
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Omni Partners
Strategy: Credit
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Omni Partners LLP is an investment management company founded by Steve Clark in 2004. Omni Partners manages three strategies: Omni Macro, Omni Event and Omni Secured Lending. The firm is focused on providing investors access to products that consistently deliver absolute returns and combines trading expertise with proactive risk management.
www.omnipartners.co.uk
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Piquant Technologies
Strategy: CTAs/ Managed Futures
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Founded in 2013, Piquant Technologies is a fully systematic multi-asset multi-strategy futures trader. Through its in-house research and new discoveries Piquant applies novel strategies and portfolio optimisation techniques designed to target steady and uncorrelated mid-teen returns. Since launch the firm continues to deliver superior performance, strategy enhancements, and steady growth in AUM. Its three principals each have strong and very relevant industry experience from organisations that include Winton, Aspect and Goldman Sachs.
www.piquanttech.com
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Polar Capital
Strategies: Ucits compliant funds; equity
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The Polar Capital UK Absolute Equity Fund is managed by Guy Rushton, who joined the firm in August 2014. This fundamentally-driven strategy focuses on the inflection points in corporate prospects to find mispricing on the long and short side. The manager invests in a portfolio of 40 to 60 all-cap companies, with a maximum net exposure of +/-60%. The Fund has a UK bias, but up to 40% can be invested in overseas companies.
www.polarcapital.co.uk
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PVE Capital
Strategies: Credit; Ucits compliant funds
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PVE Capital is a hedge fund manager with specialised expertise in managing credit assets from traditional fundamental credit strategies to specialised structured credit opportunities with a focus on Europe. The team runs a 360 degree analysis on markets to source alpha across all credit products. The firm was founded by Gennaro Pucci in July 2009. The current firm AuM is $835m and growing.
The PVE Credit Value UCIT is one of the best performing credit/fixed income UCITS fund to date and for 2014. In March 2015 it was awarded “The Best Performing Credit UCITS” by The Hedgefund Journal based on Sharpe ratio and 2014 net performance. The fund invests in IG corporate bonds with a long/short on FX and interest rate risks.
www.pvecapital.com
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QQM Fund Management
Strategy: Equity
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QQM Equity Hedge is a systematic, equity market neutral absolute return fund based on proprietary quantitative models (earnings momentum, earnings surprise and earnings guidance). All investments are subject to an ethical and norm based screening for compliance with UN Global Compact principles by Ethix SRI Advisors. Investment universe is liquid stocks in 8 European markets.
www.qqm.se
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Quaesta Capital
Strategies: CTA/ Managed futures; Ucits compliant funds
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www.quaestacapital.ch
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Quality Capital Management (QCM)
Strategy: Ucits; CTAs/ Managed Futures
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QCM is a UK-based investment management firm offering actively-run and differentiated Systematic Global Macro solutions. The firm was founded in 1995 by its CEO & CIO Aref Karim and is regulated in the UK by the FCA and registered in the US with the CFTC/NFA as a Commodity Trading Advisor and a Commodity Pool Operator.
Offering the comfort of a long history and active corporate governance, the company looks to build long term wealth for investors by generating absolute returns. QCM executes all decisions in a fully quantitative and systematic manner with intuitive fundamental thinking that drives the modelling of its investment ideas.
www.qualitycapital.com
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Quantmetrics
Strategy: CTAs/ Managed Futures
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Quantmetrics Multi Strategy trades short term systematic futures and is dependent upon the level of volatility in the market. The best measure of ‘risk’ is the VIX, which if it averages < 15 for the year, the fund seeks to return 10-15%, whilst if the VIX averages > 25 then 20%+ is the target.
www.quantmetrics.com
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RAM Active Investments
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RAM Active Investments “RAM” is a Swiss headquartered independent asset management boutique, whose sole purpose is the management of investment funds dedicated to institutional investors. The firm currently manages around 3.8 Bln USD, across equities and fixed income, long-only and long-short investment strategies. RAM is owned in majority by its employees, together the management team running our equity strategies holds 45% of the capital of the firm. RAM operates out of Geneva, London, Luxembourg and Zurich with a team of 36 people.
The RAM (Lux) Long-Short European Equities Fund and the RAM (Lux) Long-Short Emerging Markets Equities Fund are All-Cap and unbiased in terms of capitalization, country or sector across the Pan-European region or across the Emerging markets. The team uses a proprietary systematic model which selects stocks based on their fundamentals, through an opportunistic and disciplined bottom-up investment process, integrating a strong risk management model.
The funds' long exposure is neutralized through short positions in both index futures as well as short stock-picking alpha generating strategies.____________________________________________________________________________________________
Rosetta Capital Management
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Rosetta has been trading the meat and grain markets since 2000. During that time the markets have changed dramatically. Small markets have expanded by multiples as institutions, banks, and agricultural companies have become more active in the markets. A great point of pride for Rosetta has been its ability to adapt throughout the years: not only to survive all these changes but thrive in what have been very difficult and sometimes turbulent markets.
Runestone Capital
Strategy: CTAs/ Managed Futures
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The Runestone Capital Fund is an absolute return fund that aims to generate in excess of 20 percent net annualized return regardless of market conditions. The strategy is a quantitative, directional factor based model on US equity index volatility. The strategy has been back tested from January 1st 2006 and has shown net annualized return of 39 percent with the worst year showing 10 percent. The strategy has shown uncorrelated returns to the S&P 500, fixed income and the VIX (volatility) itself.
www.runestonecap.com
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Sabre Fund Management
Strategy: Ucits compliant funds/ Equity
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Sector Asset Management
Strategies: Credit; Ucits compliant funds; equity
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Sector Asset Management is an independent asset management firm founded in 1999 and based in Oslo, Norway. Current assets under management are in excess of $1bn.
Sector Sigma Nordic Fund is a UCITS long-short equity fund, primarily investing in the Nordic region. The investment team aims to deliver attractive absolute returns, with targeted volatility below the historical average for Nordic equities, by investing in companies with established business models and operating history. The investment process is research-driven, employing fundamental equity valuation criteria, with tactical implementation based on business cycle analysis.
www.sector.no
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Stenham Asset Management
Strategies: Credit; Ucits compliant funds; equity
Stenham is a
pioneering hedge fund investment specialist, operating since the 1980’s. Our
current Aum is US$ 3.6 billion. Our CIO has 24 years investment experience and
18 years with Stenham. Stenham has 9 Fund of Funds, two UCIT’s products (Global
Macro and Equity Long Only), as-well as a single manager equity L/S fund.
Stratton Street
Strategies: Credit; Ucits compliant funds; Fixed income
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Stratton Street Capital has
been managing fixed income funds and strategies since the company was formed in
2001. Our fixed income capability has shown considerable success in our
flagship credit products that form the core of the company’s offerings across
global developed, global emerging and regional strategies.
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Strategies: CTA, Ucits compliant funds
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Systematic Alpha Management, LLC (SAM) is a short-term CTA that aims to generate consistent positive returns with low to negative correlation to any major equity, bond, currency, broad hedge fund or CTA index. To achieve its objective, SAM trades a mix of systematic, high-frequency, quantitative strategies, using fully-automated, around-the-clock electronic execution in a wide range of diversified futures markets. SAM seeks to profit from an investment approach that focuses on diverse set of contrarian/mean-reversion and momentum/trend-following strategies, exploiting short-term forecasting and holding times ranging from minutes to several days.
Tendance Finance
Strategies: Ucits compliant funds; CTAs/ Managed Futures
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Tendance Finance is a French regulated Investment advisor, dedicated to systematic strategies, implemented through liquid products. It has developed a unique global top-down investment process covering any asset class. Coupled with an opportunistic Trend picking philosophy, we aim at offering customizable “all weather “products, targeting a strong absolute return.
www.tendancefinance.com
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Thayer Brook
Strategy: Credit
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Thayer Brook Partners is an investment management company operating systematic strategies in the most liquid exchange traded futures markets around the world. These include The Thayer Brook Fixed Income and FX Strategy which seeks to profit from significant moves in the global government bond and foreign exchange markets.
www.thayerbrook.co.uk
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WyeTree Asset Management
Strategy: Credit
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www.wyetreeam.com
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