Hedge Fundamentals

An Evidence-Based Absolute Return Investment Process Our Investment Process begins with a prospective macro theme or trade idea. Themes and ideas can initially be proposed for any reason. For example, recent themes in our portfolio have been ‘US Growth Rebound’, ‘Japan Reflation’, ‘China Slowdown’, ‘ECB + Euro Surviv and ‘Mexico Restructuring’. Each new proposal is considered by first weighing basic evidence ‘for’ and ‘against’ the underlying thesis, prima facie. If a prospective macro theme or trade idea is agreed to have merit, the main part of the Investment Process begins. Detailed intelligence gathering and knowledge discovery is performed across the following five specific investment dimensions: a) Economic & Monetary Data, b) Valuation Metrics, c) Quantitative Analysis, d) Positioning & Flows, e) News Sentiment & Catalysts. Every relevant research document, news item, email, webpage and rss feed discovered is uploaded to our information database, which uses the award winning Qiqqa research management system.