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Alvaro Ventosa to launch energy and infrastructure long/short equity hedge fund this summer

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

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Alvaro Ventosa
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers:

Alvento Capital Partners, a London-based asset manager founded in December, is preparing the launch of a long/short equity fund focusing on the utilities, renewables, infrastructure, water and energy sectors for July. The fund will have a global mandate with bias towards Europe and LatAm, and will invest in opportunities across fundamental long/short, event driven, opportunistic trading and pairs trading 
sub-strategies, with a concentrated portfolio of 20 to 40 positions.

Alvaro Ventosa, Alvento’s CIO, has 16 years of experience in the investment universe; he co-founded Madrid-based Cygnus Asset Management in 2006 which returned around +60% (net) while he 
was there until 2011, and most recently, he was CIO and sole portfolio manager of the CFP Equity Fund (focusing on utilities, infrastructure and renewables and energy) at London-based CF Partners from inception in December 
2012 to November 2014, when he resigned in order to start Alvento. Ventosa will continue to run the strategy with the same investment philosophy.

"The rationale for starting this fund now is that we believe that ......................

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