Hedge Fund Awards 2016

http://www.acquisition-intl.com/hedge-fund-awards 54 ~ Best Hedge Fund Manager – Japan Epic Partners was founded in April 2005 to provide investment advice to funds which are offering their investors exposure to Japanese long/short equities. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga, head of investor relations gives us an overview of the firm and the services it offers. Epic Partners are a Japanese Equity Long Short manager, specializing in a market neutral strategy, operated by the nine professionals of its investment team with a 16 years investment experience on average. Our investment strategy revolves around trying to extract alpha and eliminate market beta in a neutralizing process, focusing on diversification in risk factors, in addition to direct hedges such as using index futures or combining long and short so as to achieve a high quality of risk-adjusted-return. We have also developed new investment approaches over the years following the global financial crisis, and have carved a niche for ourselves as a market neutral specialist. In this capacity we provide investors with a wide range of equity market neutral products. One of our young managers has honed his skills with us in this area and is now posting a three year performance record with more than 3.5 sharp ratio. The firm’s client base includes institutional and individual investors. These investors require a secure invest- ment strategy, and as such we endeavour to offer a portfolio which avoids unnecessary risk. Therefore we implement hedging techniques to reduce market beta and other major risks. Looking to the future, we have a number of exciting plans which will help our firm to expand as a business. Now that our investment skills have been developed and established, we are making efforts to hire talented people to learn Epic’s skill and develop it so as to create excellent performance records. CEO: Hidematsu Take Company: Epic Partners Investments Co., Ltd Web: http://www.epic-partners.jp/english/ Address: 32F Kasumigaseki Common Gate West Tower 3-2-1 Kasumigaseki Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-0013 Japan Contact: Name: Mitsuhiro Matsunaga Email: [email protected] Telephone: 813-5521-9157