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Signet High Income Series Programme Outline
13 November 2012 Institute of Directors 116 Pall Mall London SW1Y 5ED
Agenda: 08:30 Registration & Refreshments 08:45 Overview of Economic & Investment Environment Signet Capital Management 09:15 Manager Presentations:
Feingold O’Keeffe Capital Butler Investment Managers Income Partners Sberbank Asset Management
10:30 Refreshments 10:45 Signet’s Role in Investment Process Signet Capital Management 11:00 Panel discussion & closing remarks lead by Signet Capital Management
Manager & Fund Information: Ian O’Keeffe
Feingold O’Keeffe Capital Ian is Co-Founder of Feingold O’Keeffe Capital. Ian has extensive experience managing risk assets including high yield bonds and leveraged loans, leading an investment team with expertise in credit analysis, valuation and trading.
US HIGH INCOME BOND PORTFOLIO
The Portfolio is designed to exploit credit inefficiencies and income opportunities in US corporate bonds. Using fundamental research, the fund aims to source and manage a disciplined portfolio of under-followed, idiosyncratic credits to generate alpha while providing some downside protection. The fund seeks to deliver coupon income as well as capital appreciation achieved through active management and trading.
Signet High Income Series
Signet High Income Series is a platform of liquid and geographically focused high-income bond portfolios, which are actively managed by leading independent fixed income specialists. Signet Series emphasizes high-income investment opportunities that offer a margin of safety, a catalyst to unlocking value, and an appropriate risk/return profile. Also available is an aggregated portfolio, Signet High Income Portfolio (SHIP), where investors benefit from Signet’s top down allocation to the best-in-breed managers in each region, risk budgeting expertise, dynamic and opportunistic allocation to geographically specific sub-portfolios, and a costefficient and fully transparent portfolio.
Robert Marquardt
Dr. Serge Umansky
Signet’s Founder & Co-Head of Investment Management, is responsible for the Group’s overall investment strategy. He leads Signet Group’s top-down process of identifying investment opportunities while focusing on the most pertinent investment risks; his primary area of interest has always been in credit, going back to the beginning of his career at Chase Manhattan Bank in the eighties. Bob has over two decades of experience with absolute return investments and has made several critical market calls predicting new major trends in financial markets.
Signet’s Co-Head of Investment Management, is responsible for the Group’s portfolio construction. Serge’s direction of Signet Group’s research and development efforts has resulted in cutting-edge proprietary risk management systems that target specific risk characteristics of complex multi-asset class and multimanager portfolios. Serge’s background combines academic achievements in quantitative analysis resulting in a double doctorate and professorship at the Soviet Academy of Sciences in the late eighties, with a subsequent successful career as a hedge fund manager in the US in the nineties.
Laurent Kenigswald
Emil Nguy
Evgeny Korovin CFA
Laurent has 25 years experience in economic and financial roles in Europe. These include a senior economist position at the French Ministry of Finance. From 2005 to 2008, Laurent was the portfolio manager of Barep Global Credit, awarded Best European Multi Strategy Fund of the year by HFR. Laurent has been with Butler for four years.
Emil is the Managing Partner, Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Income Partners which established itself as the first Asia based fixed income asset manager. He is responsible for business management, product development, asset allocation and macro risk management. Emil has 25 years of investment management experience in Asia.
EUROPEAN HIGH YIELD BOND PORTFOLIO
ASIAN BOND PORTFOLIO
Evgeny joined Sberbank Asset Management in 2008 as a Senior Analyst; was promoted to Portfolio Manager in 2010 and to Head of the Fixed Income Group in 2012. He is responsible for managing the firm’s fixed income portfolios, including four mutual funds, discretionary institutional and HNW accounts and a CDO. Evgeny was at Standard & Poor’s for six years where he covered corporate Russia, CIS and Eastern Europe as a credit analyst.
Butler Investment Managers
The Portfolio is designed to deliver attractive yields with some downside protection from adverse markets. The fund employs active trading with a beta overlay, playing the whole capital structure and all credit markets. In comparison to its peers it has a high level of capital protection with low volatility.
Signet Capital Management
Income Partners
The Portfolio will be designed to deliver attractive yields with some downside protection from adverse markets. The fund employs active trading with a beta overlay, playing the whole capital structure and all credit markets. In comparison to its peers it has a high level of capital protection with low volatility.
Signet Capital Management
Sberbank Asset Management
RUSSIAN FIXED INCOME PORTFOLIO
The Portfolio is diversified across sectors of liquid Russian fixed income securities. It takes advantage of the favourable fundamentals in Russia which has increasing fiscal strength and political stability combined with a huge natural resource. The fund also concentrates on US Dollar denominated Eurobonds.
Agenda: 08:30 Registration & Refreshments 08:45 Overview of Economic & Investment Environment Signet Capital Management 09:15 Manager Presentations:
Feingold O’Keeffe Capital Butler Investment Managers Income Partners Sberbank Asset Management
10:30 Refreshments 10:45 Signet’s Role in Investment Process Signet Capital Management 11:00 Panel discussion & closing remarks lead by Signet Capital Management
Manager & Fund Information: Ian O’Keeffe
Feingold O’Keeffe Capital Ian is Co-Founder of Feingold O’Keeffe Capital. Ian has extensive experience managing risk assets including high yield bonds and leveraged loans, leading an investment team with expertise in credit analysis, valuation and trading.
US HIGH INCOME BOND PORTFOLIO
The Portfolio is designed to exploit credit inefficiencies and income opportunities in US corporate bonds. Using fundamental research, the fund aims to source and manage a disciplined portfolio of under-followed, idiosyncratic credits to generate alpha while providing some downside protection. The fund seeks to deliver coupon income as well as capital appreciation achieved through active management and trading.
Signet High Income Series
Signet High Income Series is a platform of liquid and geographically focused high-income bond portfolios, which are actively managed by leading independent fixed income specialists. Signet Series emphasizes high-income investment opportunities that offer a margin of safety, a catalyst to unlocking value, and an appropriate risk/return profile. Also available is an aggregated portfolio, Signet High Income Portfolio (SHIP), where investors benefit from Signet’s top down allocation to the best-in-breed managers in each region, risk budgeting expertise, dynamic and opportunistic allocation to geographically specific sub-portfolios, and a costefficient and fully transparent portfolio.
Robert Marquardt
Dr. Serge Umansky
Signet’s Founder & Co-Head of Investment Management, is responsible for the Group’s overall investment strategy. He leads Signet Group’s top-down process of identifying investment opportunities while focusing on the most pertinent investment risks; his primary area of interest has always been in credit, going back to the beginning of his career at Chase Manhattan Bank in the eighties. Bob has over two decades of experience with absolute return investments and has made several critical market calls predicting new major trends in financial markets.
Signet’s Co-Head of Investment Management, is responsible for the Group’s portfolio construction. Serge’s direction of Signet Group’s research and development efforts has resulted in cutting-edge proprietary risk management systems that target specific risk characteristics of complex multi-asset class and multimanager portfolios. Serge’s background combines academic achievements in quantitative analysis resulting in a double doctorate and professorship at the Soviet Academy of Sciences in the late eighties, with a subsequent successful career as a hedge fund manager in the US in the nineties.
Laurent Kenigswald
Emil Nguy
Evgeny Korovin CFA
Laurent has 25 years experience in economic and financial roles in Europe. These include a senior economist position at the French Ministry of Finance. From 2005 to 2008, Laurent was the portfolio manager of Barep Global Credit, awarded Best European Multi Strategy Fund of the year by HFR. Laurent has been with Butler for four years.
Emil is the Managing Partner, Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Income Partners which established itself as the first Asia based fixed income asset manager. He is responsible for business management, product development, asset allocation and macro risk management. Emil has 25 years of investment management experience in Asia.
EUROPEAN HIGH YIELD BOND PORTFOLIO
ASIAN BOND PORTFOLIO
Evgeny joined Sberbank Asset Management in 2008 as a Senior Analyst; was promoted to Portfolio Manager in 2010 and to Head of the Fixed Income Group in 2012. He is responsible for managing the firm’s fixed income portfolios, including four mutual funds, discretionary institutional and HNW accounts and a CDO. Evgeny was at Standard & Poor’s for six years where he covered corporate Russia, CIS and Eastern Europe as a credit analyst.
Butler Investment Managers
The Portfolio is designed to deliver attractive yields with some downside protection from adverse markets. The fund employs active trading with a beta overlay, playing the whole capital structure and all credit markets. In comparison to its peers it has a high level of capital protection with low volatility.
Signet Capital Management
Income Partners
The Portfolio will be designed to deliver attractive yields with some downside protection from adverse markets. The fund employs active trading with a beta overlay, playing the whole capital structure and all credit markets. In comparison to its peers it has a high level of capital protection with low volatility.
Signet Capital Management
Sberbank Asset Management
RUSSIAN FIXED INCOME PORTFOLIO
The Portfolio is diversified across sectors of liquid Russian fixed income securities. It takes advantage of the favourable fundamentals in Russia which has increasing fiscal strength and political stability combined with a huge natural resource. The fund also concentrates on US Dollar denominated Eurobonds.
Contact +44 20 7747 2150 info@signetmanagement.com signetmanagement.com/signetseries
Private & Confidential Š 2012 Signet Capital Management Limited Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority
Signet High Income Series Programme Outline
13 November 2012 Institute of Directors 116 Pall Mall London SW1Y 5ED