Hedge Fund Awards 2015

Hedge Fund Awards 2015 www.acquisition-intl.com 74 Corporate Profile The Triple Opportunity Fixed Income Fund, managed by FINANZ KONZEPT AG, invests worldwide and without restriction in government, corporate and convertible bonds as well as in short-term securities and certified derivatives. The Triple Opportunity Fixed Income Fund is aimed at a maximum total return. The fund invests worldwide and without restriction in government, corporate and convertible bonds, as well as in short-term securities and certified deriv- atives. The fund can use up to 200% of borrowed leverage capital and therefore significantly increases the revenue from capital employed. Under normal market conditions, the fund will invest at least 70% of its overall net assets in corporate bonds and government issuers. In principle, the fund strives to invest in securities, which are significantly undervalued. Undervalued bonds benefit from the recovery of the quality of the debtor and therefore, offer a reasonable diversification to conventional bond portfolios. The foreign exchange risk is managed flexibly. At FINANZ KONZEPT AG, we concentrate all of our efforts on meeting your personal expectations and we guarantee that we will provide you with outstanding service as regards security, discretion and exclusivity. Our aspiration is to find the best solutions for you, and our name stands for nothing less than that. Our small but efficient team performs its tasks with passion to offer you superior results based on mutual trust, discretion and common goals. FINANZ KONZEPT AG was founded in the Principality of Liechtenstein in 2001. The office in the heart of Zurich, Switzerland was added in 2004. Serone Capital Management is a credit hedge fund that received its full FCA authorisation in 2010. The three senior partners of the firm; Neil Servis (CEO), Adrian King (COO) and Serj Walia (CIO) each have over twenty years of experience within the credit markets from both the buy and sell side, and were active participants in the evolution of the credit markets over that time. The motivations for setting the firm up were and continue to be; to take advantage of stress or relative value within the credit markets, generate alpha by trading in complex, illiquid and less competitive/efficient situations, benefit from bank deleveraging due to capital shortfalls and new regulations, leverage long standing relationships within the market place to source/exit positions at competitive prices and apply a trading overlay to fundamental credit analysis. The Key Opportunities Fund is our only product. It blends a stable portfolio of securitised credit that can withstand and perform in a stressed environment, with an upside bucket. Thus far this has been achieved through a portfolio of legacy CLOs, with select participation in primary deals which constitutes around 65% of our holdings. Our upside portion aims to generate multiple sources of alpha arising from; prepayments, refinancing, re-ratings, calls, “story bonds” etc. The remaining allocation is made to other securitised instruments where our expertise allows us to find opportu- nities. Geographically the fund focuses on core Europe, and selectively trades the US if we see relative-value (currently 70% Europe versus 30% US split). The fund will pass its three year anniversary in March 2015 and has over US$150m in AUM. In 2010 the headquarters were relocated to Zurich. FINANZ KONZEPT AG is authorized as an asset manager in Switzer- land and is controlled and regulated by the supervision of securities. FINANZ KONZEPT AG has been a member of the Swiss Financial Analysts Association since 2006. FINANZ KONZEPT AG Address: FINANZ KONZEPT AG Schulhausstrasse 42, 8002 Zurich, Switzerland Tel: +41 44 204 34 64 Fax: +41 44 204 34 60 Email: [email protected] Web: www.finanz-konzept.ch Serone Capital Management Web: www.seronecapital.com Top 10 Performing Fund - Triple Opportunity Fixed Income Fund Specialist Credit Asset Manager of the Year - UK Serone Capital Management