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New Managers January 2016

PROFILES: Galini Capital Advisors, Mill Hill Capital

 

Former FourWinds head to launch precious metals hedge fund Jean-Sebastien Debusscher

L&J Capital Management is launching a new fund, the Galini Market Neutral Fund, on February 1st. The fund will be advised by Galini Capital Advisors (GCA), a new investment boutique specialized in physical precious metal trading, with offices in Belgium and Colombia. L&J Capital Management is the fund's ManCo in the Caymans.

GCA was co-founded last year by Jean-Sébastien Debusschere, the CEO, who previously worked at Paribas, Deutsche Bank and Dexia in their asset management units. In 2005, he founded FourWinds Capital Management, a $1.5 billion hedge fund and private equity group specializing in commodities and natural resources, and served as CIO there until 2013.

"I founded FourWinds in Geneva," Debusschere told Opalesque. "We then opened our main office in 2007 in Boston. At that time, we managed a commodity fund of hedge funds, the Zephyr Commodity Fund, which assets climbed to $600 million. In 2007, we launched the Phaunos Timber Fund, a closed-ended fund listed on the LSE, with over $500 million. The fund invested in timber properties all around the world. We then launched the Aqua Resources Fund, a LSE-listed private equity fund, focused on water and waste private investments. We also launched the Ceres Agriculture Fund, a fund invested in agricultural futures and options focused traders."

In 2013, he sold his shares in the group to pursue other interests. He founded DASEIN, a consulting firm specialized in restructuring financial and commodity-related businesses that same year and ran it till September 2015.

"In 2015, I was able to move the proprietary trading business of EMEKO NV, a Belgian precious metal refinery group, into an asset management format, and the Gali......................

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