Global Fund Exchange is a global alternative investment firm providing portfolio management, structuring investment products and advisory services founded in 2005. We have worked with a number of select, high profile industry names to develop bespoke tailor made multi-manager solutions.

Since 2005, we have developed custom multi-manager portfolio strategies, often referred to as 'white' or 'private labeling' for our institutional clients.

In order to meet their specific needs, we have created several innovative product structures ranging from Open Ended Investment Companies (OEIC), Cayman domiciled regulated mutual funds, umbrella unit trust structures, Segregated Portfolio Companies (SPC), Various Luxembourg domiciled Specialised Investment Funds (SIF) like Societes d'Investissement a Capital Variable (SICAV), Fixed capital funds (SICAF), Dublin domiciled funds, structured products, to a number of private label fund structures.

As a result of our diverse experience in asset classes, products, domiciles and geography, we have a wealth of product development experience which extends significantly beyond the underlying investment mandate to include aspects such as regulation, taxation, pricing, dealing, fund administration and custody issues. We are extremely competent to manage Fund of Funds mandates (FoF), Manager of Managers mandates (MoM) and more recently hybrid structures (i.e. a blend of both). We have no product bias to influence our advice and services. We strongly believe in providing high quality unbiased advice followed by transparent and cost effective products and services. We believe in win-win solutions.

Our flexibility means we can provide multi-manager (FoF or MoM) mandates ranging from a single sector to a multi-sector, multi-regional and multi-asset-class combination. Whether we manage portfolios in their entirety, provide manager selection or asset allocation recommendations, we tailor our service to provide a total solution or complement existing multi-manager strategies for the short, medium or long term as required.

OUR EXPERIENCE

• Our team members each on average have 15 to 20 years of global macro experience, having built businesses and managed investments in: Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and Russia. Our experience encompasses all asset classes; equities, fixed income markets, commodities, futures, in both single strategy funds and multi strategy funds.
• Our principals believe in a hands-on approach and active management philosophy to support our clients in achieving attractive, long-term risk-optimized performance.
• We focus our efforts equally on strategy, understanding individual portfolios and blending asset classes with optimal and complementary correlation. We evaluate risk exposures across asset class, geography and sector in order to reduce risk in the context of a changing market environment.
• Our team members have worked in the alternative investment community for the past 20 years, experiencing every market cycle: - Real estate and banking crisis of early 90's, Japan boom and bust, 1994 bond market collapse, 1998 global currency crisis (Russia, Asia, Mexico, Argentina), 2000 dot com exuberance and inevitable collapse, 9/11, multiple credit crisis in 2007 and 2008 and of course the uncertain start-stop conditions of 2009 & 2010.
• The fact that we have lived and thrived through these periods has given us perspective on the cyclical nature of markets.  This enables us to create robust risk management, low volatility returns and a developed intuition that comes from experience.
• Our expansive networks allow us access to some of the best sources of information around the globe. We have completed due diligence on more than 5000 specialist funds in all asset classes. This qualitative history, blended with our cutting edge quantitative tools, allows us to pick the very best specialist niche managers around the world.
• Communication and rapport – Our team is reachable and down to earth.  We deal directly with our clients and partners and favor a direct personal relationship built on trust and open communication.
• Our hedging and asset allocation models are unique yet pragmatic, our experience in manager due diligence is deep, yet fresh and dynamic. Our cost of carry on hedging is not only negligible, but a direct source of alpha and a significant contributor to our consistently positive returns.

THE BENEFITS OF WORKING WITH US

• Totally unique multi-asset class approach to investing in the entire future energy / commodity / water spectrum. No other fund like us out there.
• Proven team with excellent credentials, impeccable track record, skills, integrity and long range vision.
• Superb track record of consistently positive performance in all market conditions at low vol with negligible drawdowns.
• Creating a dedicated white label fund for our institutional client is the most sensible, safe and cost effective way for them to invest and yields many benefits:
• Total transparency - as the sole investor in their own share class / fund - they have complete transparency as well as an online login to the custodial book at our administrator or their choice of administrator.  At any time they can see the live portfolio without restrictions imposed by confidentiality agreements in place with other investors, funds and service providers.
• As the sole investor in this class / fund, our clients have complete control over the fund should we as the manager not be doing our job for any reason - i.e. by controlling the voting rights, they have the ultimate right to hire or fire the manager.
• As the exclusive investor in this new share class / fund class they can participate in the asset allocation decisions to any extent they like, ensuring complete compliance with the objectives of the portfolio, risk parameters, liquidity ratios and changing asset allocation strategies.
• Having us create this bespoke portfolio for our institutional client is the ULTIMATE level of due diligence, transparency and partnership.
• The client is in fact hiring only our skills, experience, aptitude, contacts, track records and dedication, without taking on board the usual fund investment risks associated by being the last investor into an already huge fund (i.e. where you are always the last to know, the person who bought high and quite probably the person who will find out last what went wrong).
• The co-branding of the fund allows our clients the publicity rights that "XYZ company of _____" is a pioneer in the investment industry, and is embracing a move towards cleaner, more efficient energy sources during this bridge period where traditional energy is becoming more energy and carbon efficient and alternative energy is becoming more mainstream, proven and financially efficient.

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