Markus Hansen

Vontobel AM is an active multi-boutique asset manager which seeks to add alpha through bottom-up stock selection. The firm’s investment team monitors the tenets of their buy discipline – consistency, predictability, profitability, sustainability and sensible price. Generally, they will remain invested in a company unless a material change to their investment thesis occurs. Reasons for them to reduce the size of or to sell completely a company’s shares include the following: the market price of a business exceeds the firm’s estimate of fair price; the business is involved in a major acquisition; its earnings growth, profitability and predictability deteriorate; or it is replaced by a better investment.

SLS Management seeks to earn significant risk adjusted returns by investing in and trading both long positions and short positions in securities and other financial instruments consisting primarily of publicly-traded stocks, bonds, options and related instruments. They apply rigorous and often primary fundamental analysis to restructurings and complex corporate reorganizations. SLS Management focuses mainly on mid- and large-cap restructurings. They target securities where a discrete event or catalyst seems likely to set off a progression of events that can lead to value creation. The firm uses a disciplined investment approach of value that focuses on the trend in the fundamentals. This approach identifies opportunities where valuations are conservative and trends are improving. SLS Management also invests securities of companies that are restructuring, selling assets, entering new businesses, changing management, altering compensation schemes, emerging from bankruptcy, or subject to regulatory changes, take-overs, mergers and other corporate reorganizations.

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