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Profile
Dr. Ton Tjia is Head of European Market Neutral Investments at Polar Capital LLP.
He joined Polar Capital in October 2011 to establish the European Market Neutral team.
With over 30 years of investment experience, Dr. Tjia is one of the most experienced long/short European managers with an 11 year long/short track record of consistent returns.
Prior to joining Polar Capital, he was at Ratio Asset Management (2009-2011) where he seeded and managed the US$15m Ratio European Opportunities Fund, the management of which has transferred to Polar Capital.
Previously, Dr. Tjia worked at Millennium Capital Partners (2006-9) running a quasi-market neutral long/short European equities book.
He founded Olympus Capital Management in July 1997 and launched the Olympus Euro Fund, one of the first European long/short equity funds.
He also ran European Research at Schroder Investment Management (1986-97) and prior to this he was Chief Investment Officer in Pierson’s US fund management operations in Wilmington (DE) (1980-6).
Dr. Tjia graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a Doctoral degree in Econometric Sciences.
Former positions of Ton Tjia
| Companies | Position | End |
|---|---|---|
Polar Capital LLP
 Polar Capital LLP Investment ManagersFinance Polar Capital is a specialist, investment-led, active fund manager which offers a diverse range of funds that are actively managed. The firm selects stocks based on their potential for returns and focuses on management quality, new growth markets, the globalization of major technology trends, exploiting international valuation anomalies and sector volatility. | Head-Equity Investments | 2015-04-30 |
Olympus Capital LLP
 Olympus Capital LLP Investment ManagersFinance Olympus Capital is an active manager which aims to achieve absolute returns by employing a long/short investment strategy focused on large- and mid-cap European stocks. | President | 2010-01-31 |
Millennium Capital Partners LLP
 Millennium Capital Partners LLP Investment ManagersFinance MCP is an active, multi-strategy, opportunistic manager which aims to achieve absolute returns while preserving capital through various strategies including relative value fundamental equity, statistical arbitrage/quantitative, fixed-income and merger arbitrage/event-driven. The firm primarily invests in medium- to large-cap stocks and focuses on geographic regions, industry sectors or securities with similar trading characteristics. They utilize proprietary models and perform detailed fundamental research on companies within a particular industry group or subgroup. In general, MCP seeks to buy undervalued companies and short overvalued ones, attempting to capture excess return while minimizing overall market risk. | Portfolio Manager-Equities | 2009-05-31 |
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Polar Capital LLP
Polar Capital LLP Investment ManagersFinance Polar Capital is a specialist, investment-led, active fund manager which offers a diverse range of funds that are actively managed. The firm selects stocks based on their potential for returns and focuses on management quality, new growth markets, the globalization of major technology trends, exploiting international valuation anomalies and sector volatility. | Finance |
Millennium Capital Partners LLP
Millennium Capital Partners LLP Investment ManagersFinance MCP is an active, multi-strategy, opportunistic manager which aims to achieve absolute returns while preserving capital through various strategies including relative value fundamental equity, statistical arbitrage/quantitative, fixed-income and merger arbitrage/event-driven. The firm primarily invests in medium- to large-cap stocks and focuses on geographic regions, industry sectors or securities with similar trading characteristics. They utilize proprietary models and perform detailed fundamental research on companies within a particular industry group or subgroup. In general, MCP seeks to buy undervalued companies and short overvalued ones, attempting to capture excess return while minimizing overall market risk. | Finance |
Olympus Capital LLP
Olympus Capital LLP Investment ManagersFinance Olympus Capital is an active manager which aims to achieve absolute returns by employing a long/short investment strategy focused on large- and mid-cap European stocks. | Finance |
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