Acquisition International - Hedge Fund Awards 2017 53 Finlabo Sicav Best Italian Hedge Fund Manager & Most Consistent Long/Short Equity Europe Fund: Finlabo Dynamic Equity Finlabo Sicav Finlabo Sicav Web: www.finlabosicav.com Address: 42, Rue de la Vallée, L-2661- Luxembourg. Phone: +352 27 726 100 Finlabo SIM Web: www.finlabo.com Address: Corso Persiani, 45. 62019- Recanati. Italy. Phone: +39 071 7575053 E-mail:
[email protected] HF170007 AI has awarded Finlabo for the second year on a row, for its contribution to the Hedge Fund Industry and for the consistent performance of its flagship fund. The main success factor of Finlabo’s investment strategies are the quantitative models that the investment manager, Finlabo Sim, has developed in-house for assisting the asset allocation process. We invited Alessandro Guzzini, Co-founder and CEO of the firm to tell us more. Finlabo Investments Sicav was one of the first UCITS launched in Europe and now has more than 10 years’ experience offering to private and institutional clients a set of sophisticated investment strategies that are able to provide, in spite of market conditions, consistent and positive performance over time, while maintaining relatively low levels of volatility. On the lead its co-founders, Alessandro Guzzini (CEO) and Anselmo Pallotta (Director), the firm has developed a set of innovative quantitative models and software that drives the investment process, allowing performance maximization while minimizing risks. Those models are the result of extensive financial research and are indeed the main success factor of Finlabo’s investment strategies. Alessandro talks us through how the firm provide to clients the best possible returns: “Our objective is creating value through highly active portfolio management. Through Finlabo Investments Sicav, we manage and distribute four different funds, including our flagship fund, the Finlabo Dynamic Equity. The latter, has gained strong recognition as one of the top performers of its category (Long/Short Equity Europe). Over performing both hedge fund indexes and equity markets and maintaining relatively low levels of volatility, the fund has accumulated 79.3% returns since inception and registers an average annual return of 8.4% for the last 5-years period. The flagship fund of Finlabo is distributed across six European countries (UK, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and France) and is currently listed on the ETF’s category of Milano Stock Exchange. The current customer portfolio of the firm covers banks, foundations, asset management firms, pension funds and family offices, between other institutional investors willing to improve the risk/reward ratio of their portfolios through high-alpha generation funds. The firm’s focus remains firmly on building upon its current success, as Alessandro Guzzini explains in his concluding comments, “We think our investment strategies are capable to continue to generate outstanding results. At the same time, we are working hard for enhancing our distribution channels across Europe. Consequently, we believe that our recognition and assets under management will continue to grow at a very good pace”. Florin Court Capital Best for Quantitative Macro Asset Management - UK & Most Innovative Systematic Macro Fund (1 Year): Florin Court Capital Fund Florin Court Capital Company: Florin Court Capital Address: 31 Maddox Street, London W1S 2PB Email:
[email protected] Web: www.florincourt.com HF170011 Florin Court Capital brings together experienced talent in research, trading and operations to produce an innovative multi-strategy systematic macro fund. Head of Product Management Matthew Stevenson outlines the firm’s strategies and how these have helped it to achieve the success it enjoys today. Adopting a systematic approach, Florin Court employs strategies to take advantage of many kinds of market opportunities – not just momentum. Without institutional baggage or competing internal products, Florin Court Capital Fund was created to be the primary systematic programme in an investor’s portfolio. Started in 2015, its flagship fund utilises insights from the worlds of managed futures, statistical arbitrage and macro trading to produce uncorrelated returns to both long-only asset classes and to conventional momentum programmes. Matthew explains how the fund’s innovative approach helps to set the firm apart from its competitors. “One of Florin Court’s competitive advantages is market diversification. Our portfolio of >300 markets enables the fund to capitalise on trends and other factors away from the standard developed markets. As a limited capacity fund, we allocate as much to exotic markets such as power as we do to more conventional markets such as bond futures. The fund trades markets from the British Pound to Egyptian Pound; crude oil to coal; US Treasury bonds to Colombian interest rate swaps. “Fundamentally, in a world of political uncertainty and rising yields, Florin Court’s systematic approach – as well as lower reliance on fixed income carry – ensures a competitive advantage if long-biased systematic strategies no longer produce the returns of the past decades.” Overall it is the firm’s expert team who will guide it to continued success, as Matthew is keen to emphasise. “Looking to the future, continuous development of the programme comes from the research team, headed by Doug Greenig (CIO), Dave Dension (Deputy CIO) and Stephane Fischhoff (Head of Research). The team is a lean group of experienced researchers and developers, with decades of experience across multiple strategy types and markets.There is a deep commitment to ongoing research innovation and excellence in all aspects of the programme.”