Absolute Return Fund
The members of the newly established Absolute Return Fund (ARF) are to be grouped into small single-strategy teams managed by a Team Leader. The ARF will be based on small single-strategy teams and product groups. We plan to interview prospective candidates for the ARF in order to ensure that we recruit only candidates with sufficient financial knowledge and market understanding – candidates who do not meet these expectations will be given an opportunity to join the RRF and work on improving their skills before applying for the ARF again. Further, a risk management and control system is currently being developed which will allow us to monitor the individual teams, their performance, investment positions, exposure to risk on a daily basis.
We aim to start with 2-3 teams (e.g. Global Macro, M&A Arbitrage), each consisting of 2-3 members. Depending on the interest within the wider student community, the quality of our prospective applicants and the success of our teams and risk management procedures, we would like to progressively introduce more teams and/or more strategies in the future.
Michaelmas 2008/2009Teams
Supporting charities
We use our sponsors contributions to generate investment returns which can be then used to support valuable causes, such as charities.
Last year, we donated part of our profits from the CUIC Equity Fund to sponsor a scholarship at the Judge Business School.
