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shipping’s low correlation with broader equity markets should limit the strategy’s equity beta. The fund can invest across equities, mezzanine, bonds and derivatives (Hannisdahl was a senior fund manager for investment grade bonds at Santander Consumer Bank between 2016 and 2018). Gersemi Shipping Fund launched as an Irish ICAV QIAIF in July 2023 with seeding from Hannisdahl and other investors. His prior shipping experience has included buy side and sell side roles. Taken together, Hannisdahl’s personal investments; fund investments at two other shipping funds he co-founded, and analyst recommendations, have substantially outperformed the shipping index. Hannisdahl was ranked #1 shipping equity analyst globally by Bloomberg during 2019, 2020 and 2021, when he was MD and Head of Research at Cleaves Securities. Other sell side roles were at Nordea Markets and Fearnley Securities. Hannisdahl has a Master of Commerce from University of New South Wales in Sydney and a dual Bachelors in Economics and International Relations from Norwegian University of Science and Technology.


Chua Soon Hock


Founder and CIO Asia Genesis Asset Management Singapore


Chua Soon Hock founded Asia Genesis Asset Management in 1999 with the launch in March 2000 of Japan Macro Fund, which annualized in the high teens over its 10-year life including double-digit returns in 2008. In May 2020, Chua re-launched his award-winning discretionary macro strategy with Asia Genesis Macro Fund, returning +15.3% net amidst 2022’s challenging markets and generating, since inception, a Sharpe ratio above 1 and a Sortino ratio above 2. Targeting consistently positive returns with low downside volatility, Chua’s active tactical “all-weather” strategy rarely uses leverage, and seeks outperformance in bull, bear and rangebound markets. It trades global liquid instruments including futures and options in equity indices, interest rates and foreign exchange, with a particular focus on the Asian markets. This has allowed for monthly liquidity with no redemption fees, lock ups or penalties. Management fees are waived absent positive calendar year performance. Chua’s macro-outlook to 2030 foresees sticky inflation, geopolitical tensions, bubbles and bursts, and extreme divergences between bull markets in some regions and bear markets in others. He started his career at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, managing sovereign wealth funds with MAS and GIC. Before founding Asia Genesis, he was Chief Strategist and Head of Trading at Sanwa Bank in Singapore, and held other lead trading roles at Koch Capital, Bankers Trust and Salomon Brothers.


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Brian Hurst


Founder and CIO ClearAlpha Technologies Greenwich, Connecticut


Brian Hurst and Chief Technology Officer, Sean Teretta, co-founded ClearAlpha Technologies in 2021. ClearAlpha has launched a multimanager platform, Niche Plus, with several hundred million dollars raised from institutional investors including Stable Asset Management, New York City’s Church Pension Group, Carnegie Corporation and AQR co-founder, Clifford Asness. The multi-strategy fund aims to raise $1 billion within the next year. The fund is starting with 13 investment teams managing 20 strategies, about 70% in uncrowded niche alpha strategies and about 30% opportunistic excursions into more well trafficked alpha sources. The niche strategies include statistical arbitrage trading in various emerging markets including the Middle East/North Africa and Brazil, and a temperature arbitrage strategy run by former Swiss Re traders. Hurst will manage the niche alpha strategy alongside Chief Risk Officer, Elisha Wiesel. Hurst was previously a day one employee and first non-founding partner at AQR Capital Management, where he was a portfolio manager, researcher and Head of Trading, and a member of AQR’s operating committee. Wiesel was previously Chief Information Officer for Goldman Sachs and the Chief Risk Officer of Goldman Sachs Markets Division. Terretta was previously the Head of Technology Incubation and Innovation at Bridgewater Associates and the CTO of MUFG Americas. Hurst has a BSc in Finance from Wharton.


Mads Ingwar/Martin Oberhuber


CEO/CIO Kvasir Technologies London/Copenhagen


Mads Ingwar, Martin Oberhuber and COO Mike Merritt-Holmes co-founded Kvasir Technologies in 2018. Kvasir runs a strategy using full stack artificial intelligence and machine learning to exploit market inefficiencies including not only human behavioural biases but also weaknesses of traditional quantitative strategies. The objective is to generate broadly factor neutral, idiosyncratic alpha, with low factor and sector exposures, from trading US, European and Asian single stocks as well as some futures. The models can identify hidden, counter-intuitive and novel correlation patterns. The strategy started trading proprietary capital in 2016, attracted a sub-allocation from a hedge fund manager in 2018, and launched a fund in 2019, before entering a strategic partnership with Nile Capital Group in 2020. The latest incarnation of the models has increased the forecast Sharpe ratio to 2 thanks to several new sub-strategies. Returns


have been very lowly correlated to equities and bonds and 87% of returns in 2022 were idiosyncratic (i.e. stocks specific) alpha, according to the Global Axioma Risk Model. Ingwar, Oberhuber and Merritt-Holmes previously worked for Think Big Analytics, which was acquired by Teradata. Ingwar has a PhD in Computer Science, and an MSc in Informatics from Technical University of Denmark. Oberhuber has an MSc in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University, an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich, and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Padova.


Daniel Johansson/ Gustaf Lindskog


Co-Founders and CIO/Portfolio Manager Pantechnicon Advisors LLP London


Daniel Johansson and Gustaf Lindskog launched Pantechnicon in October 2021, with seed capital from Brummer and Partners’ Multi-Strategy fund. Pantechnicon’s global equity long short strategy has assets of circa $800 million and has generated a Sharpe ratio of circa 1.5 to June 2023. The broadly market neutral strategy focuses on industrials sectors including capital goods, autos, aerospace, building materials, chemicals, metals and mining, oil services and pulp and paper. The managers carry out fundamental analysis of industrial value chains and focus on significant deviations in earnings expectations 2-3 years out, while limiting geographical and value/growth exposures to remain macro agnostic. Johansson was previously a portfolio manager at UBS O’Connor and Norges Bank Investment Management. Before that he was an analyst for Brummer & Partners’ Zenit fund. His career started at Investor AB. Lindskog was previously a global industrials equity market neutral portfolio manager at Man GLG. Earlier he helped Soros Fund Management set up its London office and prior to that was an industrials analyst at Highbridge Capital. His career began at Alfred Berg/Morgan Stanley.


Jean Josse/Dan Zanger


Chief Investment Officer/Chief Portfolio Manager GlassBead Capital Management Miami Beach


Jean Josse launched GlassBead Strategic Partners Fund LP in June 2019. The growth-oriented long/ short equity strategy has annualized at over 20%. GlassBead’s investment process uses quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify breakthrough and leading technology companies which are ahead of their peer group, following certain themes such as cloud computing, electric cars


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