The Company manages AIFs which primarily follow:
(a) Private Equity Strategies; and
(b) Hedge Fund Strategies.
Private Equity:
Private equity is a type of investment that aims to create value by acquiring shares in private and/or public (non-listed) companies and take control over them. As the name implies, private equity pursues to devote attention to private corporations, allowing for the acquisition of ownership benefits and are looking either to enter into new markets, or to expand their capital, restructure or finance a major acquisition, aiming to improve the financial results and prospects of the acquired companies with the purpose of receiving a share from the profits or reselling them to another buyer.
Growth Capital: Growth capital investments concerning mature companies with
proven business models that are looking for capital to expand or restructure
their operations, enter new markets, or finance a major
acquisition.
Venture Capital: Venture capital investments concerning startups and early
stage companies with little to no track record of profitability. Venture
capital investments
may be made with the goal of generating outsized returns by
identifying and investing in the most promising companies and profiting from
a
successful exit.
Mezzanine Capital: Mezzanine capital investment strategies, which combine equity
investing with debt financing (convertible to equity interest) to finance
growth and
expansion in the target companies.
Asset Protection: Asset protection strategies which involve transferring the assets
of business owner’s under the umbrella of a professionally managed vehicle.
Debt Financing: Debt financing may through the use of secured or unsecured
loans in undertakings in which an AIF already holds investments through equity
or quasi-equity instruments.
Leveraged Buyouts: Leveraged buyout strategies through the use of loans and bonds
funding to finance a purchase of a company when the exit of the investment is
expected
to create significant value which will generate returns that
will outweigh the cost of the leveraged buyout.
Restructuring capital: Restructuring capital strategies concerning the acquisition of
distressed companies undergoing financial or operational reorganization or
which are
in any other unusual circumstances.
Multi Strategy: In Multi-strategy there is discretion to use a variety of private
equity fund investment strategies.
A hedge
fund is an alternative investment fund that typically use non-traditional and
risky investment strategies or asset classes including debt and equity
securities, commodities, currencies, derivatives, and other investment
vehicles.
Examples of
Hedge Fund Strategies that may be employed by the Company:
Equity - Long/Short: Long-short equity is an investing strategy that takes long
positions in stocks that are expected to appreciate and short positions in
stocks that are
expected to decline.
Event Driven - Special
Situations: The event driven investment strategy, also called special
situations, refers to opportunities that arise throughout a company’s life
and that are created by
extraordinary, or special, corporate events, such as
spin-offs, mergers, acquisitions, business consolidations, liquidations,
reorganizations, bankruptcies,
recapitalizations etc.
Quantitative: Quantitative hedge fund strategies rely on quantitative
analysis to make investment decisions.
Fundamental: Fundamental hedge fund strategies rely on fundamental analysis
to make investment decisions.
Multi-Strategy: In Multi-strategy there is discretion to use a variety of hedge
fund investment strategies.