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Benedicte Gravrand, Geneva: What makes a fund of hedge funds successful? Why should you invest in a FoHFs? What are the recent developments in the FoHFs space? These questions will be tackled in our Monday series with exclusive interviews from the best managers in the FoHFs universe.

Culross Global Management Ltd was founded in 1992 as an independent boutique investment manager specialising in hedge fund investment. Based in London, it is 100% owned by the two founding partners, Nigel Blanshard and Christopher Keen, each of whom has over 25yrs experience in institutional investment management and banking.

The Culross Global ‘H’ Fund ($) is a high conviction FoHFs with a concentrated number of managers, no leverage and a moderate volatility target. It was incepted in August 2005 and its AUM is just under US$60 mil. The fund returned 8.69% in July and 2.26% in August (YTD 32.49%). The themes are:

• Widening sub-prime and credit spreads
• BIC independent growth & industrialisation
• Japan recovery extension an structural change
• Dislocation insurance
• Asia consumer power
• Small cap opportunities
• Technology digitalisation change

Nigel Blanshard and Christopher Keen explained their methodology to Opalesque.

Tight focus on investment opportunities “What we try to do with our portfolios is construct them around our investment themes because it helps us t......................

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