Halcyon Portfolio Management

Halcyon Portfolio Management is a Cayman Islands-based hedge fund manager founded in Q4 of 2009 by a team experienced in the capital markets of Russia and the former Soviet Union. Its investment approach is distinguished by a combination of fundamental research and preservation of capital. It focuses on managing the risk inherent to the region, to outperform the market over the long term. The team’s blend of Western and Russian investment professionals and on-the-ground experience is critical to this approach. The firm is committed to providing investment vehicles that are structured to be fully aligned with investors and through which investors can access the upside potential of the Russian market while at the same time reducing the volatility. Verno and SPRING, two fund managers that manage in the Russian and CIS markets, merges the public asset management businesses to create a $500 million investment management firm focused on Russia and the CIS region. The merged company, Spring Capital, focuses on managing international institutional funds into the public equity markets of the region. The merger enhances the scale and resources of the combined business, increases operational efficiencies, and allows the joint investment team to focus on its core mission of effectively investing on behalf of clients. The private equity businesses of both firms remain separated. The two firms are highly complementary in terms of both expertise and approach. Both firms employ a fundamental, bottom-up investment process and prioritize on-the-ground research and interaction with the companies invest in.Read more ⏷