NEWS

Alpha Credit Advisors (ACA) is an independent investment firm specializing in Global Credit strategies.

ACA aims to offer Family Offices (FOs) and Corporate Treasuries with advisory services for their Global Credit exposure, acting as their inhouse Fixed Income department. 

ACA is comprised of a 5-strong PM team, headed by the following principals:

Cesar Fernandez a 5-star Morningstar-ranked and AAA Citywire-rated Emerging Markets debt portfolio manager, and named as one of the top-10 portfolio managers of Citywire Selector's Euro Stars 2022. Former Head of the Global Emerging Markets debt asset class and manage the JB Fixed Income Emerging Markets Corporate fund and other global credit funds and mandates.

Ajlan Azaz, CFA Formerly the Global Head of Credit Trading and a member of the Global Trading Management Team at ING Bank.

Gemcorp Capital is an independent London based FCA regulated alternative investment Manager foucsed on Private asset investing in Emerging markets (with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, CEE and GCC markets).

The firm was founded in 2014 and manages circa USD1bn across 4 managed funds and a co[1]investment co-investment and syndication platform. The team have over $100m invested in the flagship fund (Fund I). Gemcorp places strong risk management controls on ESG & Impact working closely with its independent ESG advisor and is a UN PRI member.

The flagship Gemcorp Fund I has delivered 11.5% net annualized returns since 2014 with circa USD700m under management.

Fund II is a new closed end fund that will be focused on hard currency senior secured direct lending opportunities across emerging markets, with a focus on sub-Sahara Africa. The fund has a target size of $500-750m and targeted net returns of +12% and has a live deal pipeline of more than $1bn across its core investment markets and strategic sectors aiming to address economic development growth. Fund II aims to leverage Fund I’s track record, with a specific Private Debt focus to core growth-focused mid-market corporates in EM.

The Smart Protein Fund, a powerful collaboration between Milltrust International (Investment Manager) and Earth First Food Ventures (“EFFV", Investment Advisor). 

Earth First Food Ventures (EFFV) has built a reputation in recent years as a leading source of expertise in the Smart Protein sector, supporting the financing of some of the most compelling early stage companies in this space. Combining with Milltrust’s decade of investment management experience focused exclusively on Sustainability and Impact, the partnership will launch a dedicated fund for a more sustainable food supply chain and healthier protein production.


 

Leon MFO Investments was founded in 2013 and authorized in Cyprus by the CYSEC and is AIFM compliant. It provides investment management services to individuals and pension funds and manages circa USD1 billion. Alongside its investment advisory and wealth management services it manages two unitized funds in the low volatility income space.

Leon Global Hedge Fund

The Fund's objective is to generate consistent uncorrelated returns from investments in a diversified portfolio of hedge funds. The Fund employs a flexible absolute return strategy, with about 65% of the portfolio invested in short-term liquid Private Credit strategies with strong collaterals, and the remainder in Arbitrage and other uncorrelated strategies. The Fund prioritizes niche opportunities with direct institutional-level access to managers, building on a vast network accumulated since 2009.

Leon Income Fund

The Fund's objective is to generate long-term capital gains and income from investments in corporate and sovereign bonds. The Fund follows a strategy with a focus on efficient allocation among different bond types through the economic cycle. The Fund is not benchmark constrained.

THIRD Collective is a research driven venture collective originating deals in the blockchain space, partnering with exceptional founders and teams at the forefront of web3 building the infrastructure and networks of tomorrow. The Collective’s partners have carved a reputation amongst the best blue chip investment DAOs. Third Collectives first SPV deal is a $5M allocation in a Layer-1 Blockchain believed to be a top 50 coin by the end of the next cycle and thereafter grow to be a pillar of the web3 movement. 

ONEE, a worldwide B2B travel tech platform based in the United Kingdom, is uniquely positioned in the vacation home and yacht rental market, focusing on the travel trade in top global destinations on a transparent and end-to-end portal. The company is focused on helping Travel Agents (“TAs”) and Vacation Rental Property Managers (“VRPMs”);

ONEE provides a platform for Travel Agents with access to luxury vacation rental properties (INVENTORY) globally and enables them to book verified high-end properties in a secure and efficient manner for their clients - while claiming transparent dynamic commissions set by Property Managers for each property.

Unlike other incumbent Online Travel Agency (OTA)’s, ONEE’s sophisticated portal provides Travel Agents and Property Managers with tools that increase efficiency in search, booking, communication and engagement.

Longdean Capital is a UK-based hedge fund manager founded in 2018 by Karim Jetha after a decade’s experience investing in the Middle East and Africa. Karim was formerly a partner, portfolio manager, and head of MENA coverage at Blakeney LLP, one of the pioneers of portfolio investment in the Middle East and Africa.

The firm's Longdean MENA Opportunities Fund, launched in 2019, focuses on investing in inefficiently priced equities across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region through a concentrated portfolio of well-researched 15-25 stocks.

Longdean is focused on four key sectors: Banks, Healthcare, Consumer and Education. At our core we're fundamental investors looking for high quality businesses with structural growth drivers that are trading below their intrinsic value.

MENA is often overlooked and misunderstood by international investors, which makes it an excellent hunting ground for fundamental investment as great businesses are often available at attractive prices.

Benli Capital Capital is an HK based asset manager founded in 2020, primarily focused on private equity with AUM of over USD 150 million.

Its hedge fund product is quantitative and focused on the agricultural commodities market. The fund was started as a managed account in 2017 returned 20% CAGR since inception and recently launched as a fund this year.

Its investment team is formed by a group of commodity traders, artificial intelligent scientists and economists. The fund implements 3 strategies for the soft commodities market, which are:Quant Macro, Quant CTA and Quant Arbitrage Strategies.

Missafir is a hospitality web application business that offers operational solutions for property owners wanting to rent their properties for short/mid term lets. Missafir offers hassle-free end-to-end digital and operational solutions ranging from search optimization ensuring high ranking ads, listings via 20+ online channels booking platforms / travel agencies and dynamic pricing that maximizes rental income.

The company was founded in 2018 as a first maker mover and received USD1.9m funding from business angels and is now leading and biggest regional (Turkey, Cyprus, Croatia and Monte Negro) short- and mid-term rental management platform with circa 1000 units under management with USD2m revenues in 2021 growing at a CAGR of circa 1300%

Missafir is now looking to raise a USD5m series A round that is expected to close at the end of July.

TradeFlow Capital is a fintech powered physical commodity financing Business focussed on SME’s that has been managing trade finance funds with no defaults nor losses since 2018. In 2021 Tradeflow was acquired by Supply@Me Capital Plc, a UK main market Fin Tech Business focussed on inventory monetization. Leveraging this acquisition TradeFlow is launching two new funds specialized in wharehoused goods monetization targetting 15% annual returns with no credit risk exposure.

Empros Capital is a late stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco that focuses on the information technology sector in the US. DWC will assist Empros in placing its allocation in Stripe, currently the largest held private company which is expected to go public in late 2023. Stripe has grown to become one of the largest payment providers globally and enables the payments for high-growth technology companies such as Shopify, Uber, Zoom, Amazon, Google and Salesforce amongst others.

Acquis Capital manages the Lumen Vietnam Fund is investing in Emerging Asia/Vietnam equities with an ESG screen. The fund has more than 9 years of track record. The fund is UCITS compliant with daily liquidit and has more than 200 million USD under management.

AQUIS Capital is also launching  a new Fund of Hedge Funds called AQUIS SLP – Impactis Fund. The Impactis Fund is a specialized and unique Fund of Hedge Funds investing mainly in Sustainable and ESG Hedge Funds globally.

Archer Daniels Asset Management is a real estate fund that invests in core / core plus real estate across Western European urban and Suburban markets with a focus on multi-family homes. The fund is seeking to raise EUR400m and intends to return an unlevered 8% IRR and net profit multiple of 1.2 to 1.3x. The fund is targeting millennials who cannot afford to buy real estate and emerging new neighbourhoods that host innovative companies with walkbable commutes or convenient Access to public transport.

The fund will focus on buying refurbishing and renting apartments and ground floor commercial & retail spaces.

The firm is minority and female owned and adheres to ESG guidelines.

Foton.Ventures is the investment arm of Foton., an established and vertically integrated Film, TV and video game developer, producer and financier in the Global Media &Entertainment (M&E) industry. In 2018, Foton raised its seed fund and is currently above 70% invested. Foton’s first fund has been invested in a meticulously curated selection of feature films. The films have enjoyed award-winning runs, competing at festivals like Sundance, Tribeca and SXSW and be distributed around the world by major studios and streaming companies like Universal, Warner Media, Hulu and Netflix.

The Second fund will raise USD100m and invest in a balanced risk/return strategy of equity instruments in four verticals: Film & TV, IP, Gaming and M&E technologies. 

Realfi is a specialized asset-based lender that underwrites and funds high yield, short-term first mortgage loans to residential, commercial and mixed-use real estate investors throughout the Northeast USA.

Realfi is managed by John Lettera and Brian Walter. For more than20 years, John has been in the bridge lending space and Brian has been the CIO for a promimnent family Office as well as Head of Institutional Products at Fifth Street Management.

The fund has returned circa 11% with no draw downs over 4 years with a Sharpe ratio of 16.8 and assets at USD75 million under management. 

The Arrow Macro absolute Return Fund targets net returns of 7-9% per-annum regardless of market direction with limited drawdowns. The strategy focuses on highly liquid developed equity market indices. The fund has a topdown discretionary approach based on Macro research combined with positioning, flows, sentiment and news analysis. Most of the positions are mean-reverting strategies with a contrarian style with occasional trend following strategies.

The fund does not employ any leverage and has a tight risk management approach whereas positions are sized according to the Kelly formula.

The strategy was conceived by the CIO Onurhan Homris who has 25 years investment experience of which 15 years as the CEO of a Fortune 500 Family Office where he succesfully implemented the strategy with high single digit returns and no down years.

SAG is a long/short, concentrated, US focused equity fund managed by Mark Bennett & Zafiris Vartis.

Historically SAG have demonstrated to be outstanding fundamental stock pickers, which is the primary source of alpha in the fund by beating their objective by returning circa 30% annualised returns over circa 4 years.

Argo fund managed by Andreas Rialas a veteran distressed/acivist EM investor and his team that have worked together over many market cycles.  The Argo Fund is a diversified global emerging markets debt and macro Fund that has amaseed a 20 year track record. The Argo Fund seeks to capture alpha through with low net exposure through long and short investments in EM corporate, sovereign and distressed credit and FX. The fund uses a macro hedging overlay strategy to actively manage portfolio duration, volatility and correlation.  The Argo Group is an LSE AIM listed investment manager since 2008 and is bound by multiple levels of governance.

Wadz is a blockchain-based, payment processing and data analytics business catering for both consumers and businesses. Wadz was formed by ex Mastercard principals and aims to facilitate payments in South East Asia (Indonesia and Vietnam). The WADZ terminals will be avaiable in Duty Free shops and for small merchants who will seamlessly be able to transact with their crypto currencies. Consumers will be rewarded with WTK tokens as they contribute information invaluable for merchants.

Devonshire Warwick Capital LLP has been mandated to raise assets for the Hedgeact platform. HedgeACT is an investment manager with assets over USD 200 million dedicated to niche alternative investment strategies. Hedgeact manages unique risk-adjusted return strategies that historically have provided true alpha and are not correlated to the broader asset classes including the award winning Waterford Life settlements fund and the FTM Medical Receivables Litigation Finance Fund. #litigationfinance #alternativeinvestments

Devonshire Warwick Capital LLP has been mandated to raise assets for Sava Investment Management. The SAVA Healthcare Blockchain Fund has a hybrid fund structure: trading and venture capital.  SAVA IM has been granted exclusivity to the Series A (with significant discount) and Series B round of Solve.Care, a global and disruptive healthcare platform using blockchain for care coordination, administration, and payments. The Fund will invest 50% of commitments into SOLVE tokens using algorithmic trading strategies and 50% into Solve.Care equity shares #venturecapital #fintech #algorithmictrading 

Devonshire Warwick Capital LLP has been mandated to raise debt capital for Mulitbank (MEX) for its USD 130 million BBB+ rated bond to be listed on Euronext and Frankfurt yielding 8% per annum and maturing in 2025. MEX is a global forex broker operating in 15 jurisdictions globally with regulated businesses in 9 countries. MEX has a track record of revenue growth with an EBITDA of $68.1m in 2019 and $45.2m in 2018. #debt #highyield #listed

AGBI is an agricultural private equity management company with approximately R$ 170 MM under management. AGBI acquired, leased and operates more than 35,900 hectares of agricultural land and has two farms under management. AGBI focuses on farmland repurposing from pasture to crops. AGBI leases the land to local expert operators and therefore does not take any production risk. Once leased yields stabilize and additional urbanization and logistics improvements add value to the land and then the fund will exit its position. AGBI was founded by Luciano Lewandowski who has a very succesful track record of real estate investing focused on Brazil. Luciano founded Prosperitas a real estate private equity firm which raised over USD2 billion USD in investing in logisitcs and commerical real estate and returned 22% annualised returns im Reais. AgriBusiness Brazil Partners I is targeting USD250m in commitments.

EXBEGA is an ATM platform which includes sports betting, gambling and a Crypto exchange. EXBEGA offers a complete ecosystem for players. Players can play on the terminals, online on the PC or with the app. EXBEGA will apply for E-Money license and offer its own banking solution where customers can easily withdraw their winnings to the account. 30% of the turnover profits will be given to the ICO participants through shareholder tokens in addition to the utility token. DWC is offering a pool through its Etheredge ICO platform https://lnkd.in/drueATz the contribution link for the pool can be found at https://primablock.com/p/QRkRA7AfA54/contributor

Devonshire Warwick Capital LLP has been mandated to raise assets for a convertible note issued by Veritas, a Bermuda based insurer. The proceeds will used for acquisitions and deliver a revenue/rating uplift. Veritas will be listed on the Bermuda Stock Exchange in July.

Devonshire Warwick Capital LLP has been mandated to raise assets for Hatcher +, a data driven venture capital fund investing in early stage companies using articial intelligence. Hatcher's database comprises over 450K historical ınvestment events and is linked to leading accelerators and early stage investment groups. Hatcher aims to build a portfolio of 1300 companies in its fund II and aims to raise USD125 million

https://www.voxmarkets.co.uk/company/ALGW/?mediaAssetId=5bead859a0c2cc00123880ea&jwsource=cl

Integrity is a small business platorm owned by Erational marketing in Toronto one of the fastest growing small businesses in Canada. The Integrity Platform connects Small Businesses with the best Expert Processes, the best technologies and the best freelancers to execute the best growth strategy for their unique needs. This Growth as a Service platform is backed by its own crypto currency ITX which aims to raise USD20 million from private funds, pools and family offices by February 2019. DWC is offering a pool through its Etheredge ICO platform with 100% bonus on toekens purchased with the Ethereum price pegged at USD340 https://t.me/etheredgepoolchat

Established in 2013 and headquartered and regulated in London, UK, Bank4YOU (BFY) Group is an international consortium of fin-tech service companies operating within the electronic mobile payment services arena. Bank4YOU Group provides customers with a wide range of pre-paid card options as well as mobile money remittance systems. BFY successfully raised over USD8 million in its ICO in 2018 and its coin is currently traded on Mercatox. DWC will advise BFY on its market access in the Turkish market by establishing local partnerships with mobile and e-money payment providers.

Helia Partners is an investment advisory boutique specialized in venture capital, private equity, private debt and digital assets. The firm is headed by Mr BD Choi who is a veteran investment manager in real estate and distressed assets. Prior to Helia Mr Choi was the Managing Director  and Partner  of Doran Capital Partners a real estate private equity fund where he raised USD210 million. Prior to that he was head of the NPL team at Korea Asset Management Corp (KAMCO) and also was the Managing Director of KMBC Asia in Hong Kong where he managed distressed assset portfolios.

Curve Capital Technology Fund I is a Venture Capital Fund that invests in early stage technology start-ups in Europe, US and Latam.
 
The team has an excellent academic background and extensive experience in the sector. Our objective is to return in excess of 3X the invested capital.
 
Amongst their investments they have start-ups such as Supercell, Deliveroo or Rappi which have been financed by leading VCs such as Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Accel Partners and Index Ventures.
 
As an example, in Deliveroo they have achieved a return of 38 times our investment, as in the last round of financing, the company was valued at over $2 Billion.

Alpha Growth plc (LSE: ALGW), the financial services specialist in the growing Senior Life Settlement ("SLS") asset class, is pleased to announce it has retained the services of Devonshire Warwick, LLP to raise assets for its life settlements investment strategy.Devonshire Warwick is a placement agent that for a number of years has raised assets for a variety of alternative investment strategies. Its clients include family offices, fund of hedge funds, high net worth investors, wealth management companies, private banks, pensions funds, insurance companies and other institutional investors around the globe.Devonshire Warwick is owned by Cenk Utkan who following the signing of the contract with Alpha Growth commented: "We always look out for interesting niches in alternative investments and managers that are doing something a little different to achieve a little more which will benefit our clients. Life settlements hedge funds have always concerned me because of the liquidity risk that is inherent in their fund structures. Alpha Growth has overcome this by running their strategy via individually managed accounts. This, combined with a team of pedigree that is managing these portfolios of life settlements and able to generate such a high rate of return made this an opportunity that we could not neglect.".

Alpha Growth plc is a financial advisory business providing specialist consultancy, advisory, and supplementary services to institutional and qualified investors globally in the multi-billion dollar market of longevity assets. Building on its well- established network, Alpha Growth has a unique position in the longevity asset services and investment business, as a listed entity with global reach. The Company's strategy is to expand its advisory and business services via acquisitions and joint ventures in the UK and the US to attain commercial scale and provide a wholistic solution to alternative institutional investors who are in need of specialised skills and unique access to deploy their financial resource in longevity assets.Alpha runs life settlements strategy that targets a 10%-15% annualised rate of return. The Company manages its clients' investments into the world of life insurance via managed accounts to avoid the liquidity risk associated with funds that operate in the same sector.

Devonshire Warwick was the advisor to a USD25 million bridge loan for Seven Bridges Genomics, a Boston based SAAS DNA database provider providing population based DNA samples for pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and public bodies. The firm had previously raised USD50 million in a series A equity funding from leading Asian Investors.

Devonshire Warwick Capital (DWC) is to serve as the marketing and distribution partner for Fundbase Fund Services’s sell-side clients.Fundbase operates a buy-side fund sourcing and portfolio management analytics platform, attracting some of the most sophisticated hedge investors globally.
 
In addition, the firm established itself as a major player in the Swiss fund representation market. Switzerland is currently the third largest institutional fund market globally.
 
Boutique fund managers must register their funds with a Swiss fund representative to distribute their products to qualified investors in Switzerland.
 
Lilian Klose-La Scalea, managing director of Fundbase, says: “With the growth of our Swiss fund representation service, our clients increasingly required a dedicated and complementary offline fund distribution service. Swiss fund representation firms need to get an edge in an increasingly competitive space. We have known the principals of DWC over many years and attest to their proven ability to raise assets in Switzerland and other financial hubs. Through our partnership, we will offer exclusive road shows at discounted rates and exclusive distribution packages at unbeatable rates.”
 
Cenk Utkan (pictured), managing partner of DWC, says: “We are delighted that industry veterans such as Fundbase have opted to partner with us. The third-party endorsement of our distribution capability is an important milestone for our business. We also have been looking to get a technological edge in fund distribution and have evaluated many investor matching platforms and found Fundbase to be at the forefront of industry standards. Also, our partnership will enable us to get an in depth regulated distribution capability in Switzerland.” 

http://www.hedgeweek.com/2017/04/07/250467/fundbase-fund-services-chooses-devonshire-warwick-sales-a...

You have been named – Best Hedge Fund Advisory Firm - Turkey 

The 2016 Consultancy Awards aim to highlight and give recognition to those consultants who really deserve it. We are covering industries worldwide, ranging from medical to image and management to transport, putting consultants in the spotlight and focusing on their individual attributes and skills.

Please click here for more information.

This prestigious award marks you out as one of the most outstanding performers in your field and we hope that this will go a long way in helping you achieve even greater results over the coming months and years. Our voting, selection and judging process took over 6 months, during which time our industry experts counted and researched votes, analysed all supporting evidence and performed myriad additional interviews to ensure that only the most deserving and top performing individuals, firms and products were recognised.

Please click here for more information

Caradon Capital Introductions, LLC is a third party marketing firm introducing suitable investors and emerging manager hedge funds to each other. Principal, Edward Vickery, is a registered representative of Silver Leaf Partners, a New York based broker dealer. Member FINRA, NFA & SIPC. Accordingly Devonshire Warwick and Caradon wil cross market their investment managers where suitable. Devonshire Warwick will focus on European and Middle Eastern institutional distribution whilst Caradon will enable Devonshire to access the US market of institutional fund buyers.