Interview with Four Ships Founder and CEO, Yashwant Bajaj. Yashwant Bajaj was Head of Equity Sales Tokyo. Kleinwort Benson Securities Japan (Dresdner Kleinwort Benson from 1997), Japan, Tokyo, 1994 – 1998. He was then MD Lehman Brothers from 1999-2004 where he was Member of Asian Equity Executive Committee . Head of Japan Cash Product and Global Head of Japanese Equity Sales. He then was the Founder and Principal of Hachiman Capital Management 2004 –2010 with 5 years top quartile performance with peak AUM of U$200 million and then Founder and Principal of Juggernaut Capital Management from 2011-2013 that was nominated Best New Asia Hedge Fund in 2012 by Eurekahedge. He recently started a new hedge fund in 2019, Four Ships, based in Singapore focused on “Japan in Asia Opportunities”.
Pranab Pattanaik is the Portfolio Manager of the Sanchi Credit Opportunities Fund (SCOF) based in Singapore. The fund invests in global public market credit instruments including IG, HY and unrated bonds with a focus on Investment Grade (IG). The fund holds between 25-30 concentrated deep conviction named across DM and EM with no leverage with a focus on DM. Current AUM as of September 2021 is under U$100 million.
CEO, Shailesh Vickram Singh, before starting Massive Mobility, has been a VC with SeedFund (backed by marquee LPs like Google, CDC, Wellcome Trust etc.) Shailesh moved out of tech VC space in 2018 to focus on solving air pollution and climate change by applying VC framework of scalable innovation driven through capital.
Tingtech solves a current problem for media partners boosting fan engagement both online and offline and also owning the customer relationship.</strong> Tingtech engages consumers via remote home engagement (TV and / or social media) and through live events by broadcasting rewards to incentivize consumer engagement while producing high quality customer data.
Christina Kaufmann’s journey with plant medicines started in 2017 after years of having a traumatic childhood that extended into adulthood manifesting with huge physical problems in the body. After attending several plant-medicine retreats from 2017-2019 and with energetic healing work by an experienced practitioner, she experienced very quickly a full healing from her trauma and physical symptoms.
Paraclete is a Global Macro Fund headquartered in Singapore that deploys a systematic “smart diversification framework” that solves the problem of heightened market volatility by continuously balancing exposures to the right mix of assets that can generate positive expected returns while managing portfolio risk to a constant level. The fund was co-founded by Dennis Mak and Jeff Hu. As of January 2021, Paraclete’s AUM reached $130 million. For the last four years since their founding in 2016, they have had a 26% annualized return, net of fees, making it one of the world’s best performing quant macro strategies. In this follow up interview, we discuss what led to the 2020 performance, advantages of being located in Singapore as they scale their AUM, how Paraclete can benefit an investor holding a 60/40 portfolio, and finally their 2021 investment outlook.
David Din is the Founder and CEO of Bluetector, based in Switzerland. Previously he was a Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Epuramat, a wastewater technology company. David is active in the field of sewerage since 2005.
He started Bluetector on his own at a site of Bluetector’s first client building a prototype to treat the wastewater from mobile toilet cabins. In his previous life, he was a banker at UBS and later a Director at Schroder’s Bank. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst
Interview with Four Ships Founder and CEO, Yashwant Bajaj. Yashwant Bajaj was Head of Equity Sales Tokyo. Kleinwort Benson Securities Japan (Dresdner Kleinwort Benson from 1997), Japan, Tokyo, 1994 – 1998. He was then MD Lehman Brothers from 1999-2004 where he was Member of Asian Equity Executive Committee . Head of Japan Cash Product and Global Head of Japanese Equity Sales. He then was the Founder and Principal of Hachiman Capital Management 2004 –2010 with 5 years top quartile performance with peak AUM of U$200 million and then Founder and Principal of Juggernaut Capital Management from 2011-2013 that was nominated Best New Asia Hedge Fund in 2012 by Eurekahedge. He recently started a new hedge fund in 2019, Four Ships, based in Singapore focused on “Japan in Asia Opportunities”.
psHolix based in Switzerland has created an AI driven 3D holographic technology solution for the mass market without glasses that is 2D backward compatible. The company owns 58 patents.
Paraclete is a Global Macro Fund headquartered in Singapore that deploys a systematic “smart diversification framework” that solves the problem of heightened market volatility by continuously balancing exposures to the right mix of assets that can generate positive expected returns while managing portfolio risk to a constant level. The fund was co-founded by Dennis Mak and Jeff Hu. As of August 2020, Paraclete’s AUM is $100 million.
An ESG company within the Agri-Tech space, Founder of Sustainable Protein Foundation, Sven Kaufmann decided five years ago, after several successful technology company exits to change his strategy. Sven has attended the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos for the past four years and observed the movement from several companies to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). He also realized that the food industry is moving towards a dead end. He now puts all his efforts in ventures being in the highest service for the planet.
As liquidity continues to boost the US indices such as the S&P and the Nasdaq with fund flows vs. fundamentals, what will happen in the second half of 2020 in terms of performance and volatility?
Interview with Four Ships Founder and CEO, Yashwant Bajaj. Yashwant Bajaj was Head of Equity Sales Tokyo. Kleinwort Benson Securities Japan (Dresdner Kleinwort Benson from 1997), Japan, Tokyo, 1994 – 1998. He was then MD Lehman Brothers from 1999-2004 where he was Member of Asian Equity Executive Committee . Head of Japan Cash Product and Global Head of Japanese Equity Sales. He then was the Founder and Principal of Hachiman Capital Management 2004 –2010 with 5 years top quartile performance with peak AUM of U$200 million and then Founder and Principal of Juggernaut Capital Management from 2011-2013 that was nominated Best New Asia Hedge Fund in 2012 by Eurekahedge. He recently started a new hedge fund in 2019, Four Ships, based in Singapore focused on “Japan in Asia Opportunities”.