54 Acquisition International - Hedge Fund Awards 2017 Hyperion Capital Advisors Best Asset Management Boutique - Florida & Recognised Leader in Systematic Strategies - USA Hyperion Capital Advisors Company: Hyperion Capital Advisors, LLC Name: Christopher Sullivan AWMA, CRPC, CMT Email:
[email protected] Web: www.hyperioncp.com Address: 270 W New England Ave Winter Park, Fl 32789 Phone: 407-935-1040 HF170023 INOKS Capital Most Innovative Investment Manager - Switzerland INOKS Capital Company: INOKS Capital SA Name: Nabil Marc Abdul-Massih, CEO Email:
[email protected] Web: www.inokscapital.com Address: Rue de l’Athénée 32, 1206 Geneva, Switzerland Phone: +41 (0)22 718 7410 HF170066 Hyperion Capital Advisors, LLC is a quantitative based investment manager supporting high-net worth individuals, family offices, and small institutions. We caught up with Christopher Sullivan to find out more. Founded in 2013, Hyperion provides investors with empirical- based investment solutions combining technology and machine intelligence with human awareness and oversight. This innovative approach allows investors access to competitive equity returns with reduced risk and volatility of the broader equity indices, as well as long term capital appreciation via the compounding of high probability, short duration trades. Christopher talks us through the firm’s flagship fund and how this helps clients to achieve strong return on investment. “Our flagship product, Helios Fund, is a multi-strategy systematic quantitative long/short equity fund. The strategies include unique proprietary methodology in trend following, mean reversion, and momentum; our approach to managing risk includes a disciplined and defined process, dynamic position sizing, cognitive self- evolving stop losses, and static model max loss stop losses of 10%. Our primary goal is to be good stewards of our clients’ capital, and with that being said, we focus on strategies that help our clients ‘Stay Rich.’” Within the hedge fundmarket currently there are a number of developments facing firms such as Hyperion, but, as Christopher emphases, the firm remains focused on generating strong ROI for its investors. “As an emerging manager, we are singularly focused on the success of our client’s capital and our firm. Within the hedge fund industry as a whole, you have seen a massive exodus away from active or conviction based management, many hedge fund closings, and movement toward indexing. I cannot stress enough that we believe diversification is crucial to a portfolio’s success, and that allocations ought to reflect balance against the many macro-prudential risks that are in the market place. Strategy diversification is the primary way we add value to clients’ equity portfolios, and is our core focus throughout the portfolio.” Looking ahead, Christopher is excited about what the future holds as the firm seeks to expand upon its current investment offering. “Currently we are evolving components of our momentum based model, and are preparing to launch another fund in order to build on our current achievements and expand as a firm.” INOKS Capital is a FINMA-licensed, independent asset manager headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. We caught up with Nabil Marc Abdul-Massih, CEO, to learn more. Since launching in 2004, INOKS Capital has focused on supporting sustainable growth in emerging markets by designing impactful and innovative investment solutions. The investment vehicles managed by INOKS actively provide capital solutions to value-added participants of global commodity value chains. Nabil outlines the firm’s strategy in more detail, revealing how it aims to provide the best possible returns for investors through its unique approach. “INOKS’s flagship strategy provides short-term solutions (less than one year) for corporates requiring working capital. It is accessible to qualified investors via two collective entities: Ancile Fund (Cayman) Ltd, launched in August 2006, and Ancile (Luxembourg) SICAV-SIF, launched in September 2012. Both funds co-invest in the same portfolio of Commodity Structured Trade Finance (CSTF) transactions, and offer quarterly liquidity to investors. “Overall, Ancile’s objective is to generate sustainable, above average returns for investors by investing globally in commodity and trade based transactions to grant structured and secured funding to producers, consumers and other commodity value chain participants. Ancile seeks to achieve capital appreciation whilst preserving capital and mitigating risks, by targeting a diversified mix of commodities and geographies. This unique approach generates above average returns with low volatilities, making it an attractive investment that is uncorrelated to traditional asset classes.” Ultimately Nabil is keen to emphasise the firm’s continued dedication to targeting companies which have limited access to capital markets and help them to grow and expand organically in a way which meets their needs and ensures their continued survival. “Our principal goal is not to speculate on commodity prices but to support the organic growth of commodity value chain businesses, whilst generating positive local impacts through strict ESG/SRI investment criteria. Ancile’s beneficiaries are producers, merchants, transformers or distributors of commodities active in emerging markets. To be eligible for funding their activity must be short-term and self-liquidating in nature, whilst their P&L must also be non-speculative: we support profits that are generated through value addition in the commodity chain, not dependent on commodity price volatilities. Continuing with this approach and building upon our successful year in terms of fundraising will be our ongoing focus moving forward.”