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July 11, 2008 - Capricorn CIO and Founding Partner Mikkel Thorup, was invited by SEB Bank to panel a discussion at their Alternative Investment seminar, "Uncorrelated Strategies - Dream or Reality?" This one day event was aimed at discussing the challenges faced by investors when allocations are failing to meet the diversification purpose.
The SEB Group is a North European financial group for 400,000 corporate customers and institutions, and 5 million private customers. SEB has local presence in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Germany, Poland, the Ukraine and Russia. Approximately half of SEB’s customers use the internet for their banking transactions. The Group is represented in some 20 countries around the world and has a staff of about 20,000.
Shirley Lam, SEB; +46 8 506 23060; shirley.lam ( @ ) seb dot se
Capricorn is an established currency manager with a global client base that includes; Banks, Asset Allocators, Institutions, Investment Funds and High Net Worth Individuals. As of today, the company has more than 50 years of experience within the investment advisory arena, currently advising over US$200 million in client assets. Since 1999 Capricorn has produced superior risk adjusted returns in its pure alpha strategies managing an additional US$75 million, trading high liquid currencies as managed accounts and offshore funds for Individual and Institutional clients. The vision behind Capricorn is to reach our capacity of US$ 500 million, managing the assets of professional investors. To achieve this goal our aim is to provide premium investment programs that seeks, strong returns with low volatility and a low correlation to other investment vehicles. In order to strengthen our ability to add value to our clients’ portfolio, we choose to develop and maintain relationships with reputable financial institutions that are leaders in their field.
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