AI Hedge Awards 2017

58 Acquisition International - Hedge Fund Awards 2017 Norron AB Best Capital Markets Investment Firm - Nordic Region & Best Long Only Equity Fund (5 Years): Norron Active Norron AB Company: Norron Asset Mgmt Name: Ulf Frykhammar Email: ulf.frykhammar@ norron.com Web: www.norron.com Address: Norron, Oxtorgsgatan 4, SE-111 57 Stockholm, Sweden HF170025 Norron Asset Management is a Nordic investment manager with offices in Stockholm and Oslo. CIO and Managing Partner Ulf Frykhammar provides us with an absorbing overview of the company and the investment opportunities it offers. Norron manages six different funds, three of which are hedge funds, with a primary focus on the Nordic capital markets. The fund offering consists of both absolute return funds and actively managed equity funds. Ulf discusses the hedge fund offering in more detail, outlining the major benefits of investing in these products. “Here at Norron we offer three hedge fund options. Our funds are divided in to different risk segments (measured as historical volatility). Through this approach we are able to cover volatility brackets from 1% to full equity market volatility. The other way to view our product offering is from our client’s different end needs, or demands, when it comes to investing so that we can meet their needs. “The first of our hedge fund offerings is the Norron Target Fund, a low volatility and low net multi strategy fund, with more than 12 years tradable NAV track record. Our return CAGR (last 12y) is ~7% with a volatility of approximately 3%. “In addition we also offer the Norron Select Fund, our L/S equity fund that carries roughly 50% of the volatility of the Swedish equity market. Our 5y CAGR has been 11% with a volatility of 7-8 percent. “Finally, we offer the Norron Alpha, which is a market neutral equity fund. The fund is our latest addition, and meets our clients demand for non-correlating returns. The return of the fund is a residual of our alpha generating ability, which is >10% per year during the last five years.” Looking ahead, the firm aims to maintain its current success by working hard to ensure it continues to meet its clients’ needs, as Ulf concludes. “Moving forward, we will continue to develop both in terms of investment philosophy and product offering. Considering that we are building our brand awareness, both internationally and in our home markets, we feel that we have a great business opportunity to capitalize on in the years to come.” QUANTUMROCK CAPITAL GmbH Best European FinTech-Asset Manager 2016 & Most Innovative Professional Investment Product - Germany QUANTUMROCK CAPITAL GmbH Company: Quantumrock Capital GmbH Name: Thomas Lorenzen Email: [email protected] Web: www.quantumrock.de Address: Kronsberg 22, 24161 Altenholz Phone: +49 431 8880541 0 or +49 89 25542191 HF170018 Quantumrock Capital researches and develops software, algorithms and models to create measurable success on financial markets. We invited Thomas Lorenzen to tell us more. Established in 2010, Quantumrock is a BaFin-licensed FinTech-asset management firm which started life managing its own personal funds before diversifying into developing systematic trading systems, which has been its ongoing focus in recent years. Thomas discusses how the firm ensures that it offers the very highest standard of solution to the clients, who are typically successful entrepreneurs but also include major financial institutions. “Since the beginning of 2015 we decided to accept a very restricted circle of external high-net-worth individuals as investors, extending our client base by invitation and reference only. On average we have achieved 15% p.a. return over the last 3.5 years. The correlation of our returns with those of other asset classes over the same period has been very low. We have a team of specialists who contribute their knowledge and experience and constantly monitor the market. We use cutting edge technology and have positioned our servers strategically in datacentres in London, New York and Munich in order to achieve low latency execution.” Moving forward, the firm’s continued focus will remain on developing and expanding its range of solutions in order to meet client needs, as Thomas concludes. “Here at Quantumrock Capital we are constantly developing new trading strategies and continue to adopt our systems to new markets. All new trading strategies are first tested with our personal funds. Only once we are satisfied with the results we approach our clients. We believe that our focus on proprietary cutting edge trading systems, risk management, absolute returns and regulatory requirements give us a distinct competitive edge over our competition in our region and developing this will remain our ongoing focus as we look to the future.”