Our Investment Strategies

Our Investment Strategies Are Driven By Our Teams

Trusted by investors from across the world to help manage their assets by seeking the optimal balance of risk and reward, we’re experts in quantitative investing advisory. We also have considerable expertise in areas that involve fundamental analysis or portfolio manager discretion. We use a combination of quantitative and qualitative tools to uncover independent, hard-to-find sources of return across global public and private markets.

Our Teams work together to share trade ideas, identify and address risks, build tools, and explore new opportunities. Our strong culture of rigorous analysis and scientific research, supported by a robust infrastructure, is the bedrock of a successful quantitative investment process. We aim to identify statistically robust market inefficiencies through hypothesis formulation, testing, and validation based on practical knowledge of markets and advanced computational methods.

Our Financial Analysts tirelessly research investment options, conduct due diligence on potential opportunities and determine when best to enter and exit assets. Our Economists keep a watchful eye on the current market situation and outlook. Armed with insights from financial analysts and economists, our asset managers have the final say in asset management decisions. They liaise with clients and ensure their best interests are cared for.

Our derivatives experts also undertake Derivatives Trading on clients' behalf. Derivatives are financial contracts whose value is derived from underlying assets. Options, along with futures contracts and forward contracts, are some of the most common types of derivatives. The most common underlying assets for derivatives are stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, interest rates, and market indexes. These assets are commonly purchased through brokerages.  However, we operate on a totally independent basis from brokerage firms, mutual fund companies, insurance companies, etc.  As such, our only allegiance is to our clients.  We are not prejudiced to include any particular type of investment or strategy in our clients' investment portfolios.

Our asset enhancement experts have studied and then researched the assets they intend to trade in, current market trends, economic data, government policies affecting prices and markets, prevailing investment sentiment, promoter company background as well as their performance track records, etc. in greatest detail possible. They have also identified where your risks and your potential gains lie. They  have deep knowledge of market history and what one can expect from different types of assets. 

The best part of investing through us is that our clients are always in complete control of their money. Payments are made only against assets acquired by the experts on their behalf. We understand the value of your hard earned money. It might be your life savings or the life savings you inherited from someone else. Your assets could easily represent many times your income, which is a lot of money. Do you really want to risk doing it yourself? Or would it be helpful to have access to someone who does this full time and who does this professionally? We make sure we cover your risks. This works almost like an Insurance.

We believe a key difference between firms that survive and thrive over the long run and those that don’t is risk management. A guiding principle in our approach is that risk and portfolio management are not separated 

BLACK COWRIE FINANCE's Quantitative Strategies Team combines rigorous fundamental research with mathematical and statistical models to identify and execute on investment opportunities. Our team stands at the forefront of data analysis and modeling. We analyze historical and current information through statistical and quantitative modeling, as well as predictive analytics, to identify and capture opportunities. We focus on the equity, fixed income, commodities and currency markets globally, 

Our Credit Team focuses on the relationships that connect corporate bonds, convertible bonds, bank debt, credit derivatives, credit indices, and equities. Our core strategies integrate structural, statistical, and fundamental approaches to investing across the corporate capital structure. 

Our Commodities Team adopts directional and relative value strategies across both physical and financial commodities markets. We evaluate opportunities in natural gas, power, crude, and refined products, and agriculture. BLACK COWRIE FINANCE uses fundamental research, proprietary analytical methodologies, and quantitative analysis to drive our views. We join these techniques with an intense focus on understanding each market our clients trade, reflected in our ability to generate supply and demand balances for each commodity or product. A key part of this process is our advanced technology platform that allows us to quickly and deeply understand patterns within a market or product, conduct scenario analysis and improve the overall accuracy of our views. 

BLACK COWRIE FINANCE's Fixed Income and Macro Team helps clients invest in fixed income securities in global markets using macro and relative value strategies. As one of our longest standing strategies, our team’s evolved investment process blends quantitative analysis, fundamental research, and experienced judgment. The Fixed Income and Macro team works collaboratively, integrating a disciplined investment process within a rigorous analytical framework. Leveraging its in-depth understanding of central banks and partnerships with leading economists, our expertise spans macro views, monetary policy, and the intersection of public and proprietary data. Our research team constantly originates, analyzes, and evaluates new opportunities, using qualitative and quantitative methods. Areas of focus include rates, currencies, sovereign bonds, and inflation. 

Our Equities Team employs its deep expertise to help investors invest in the equity and equity-linked securities of companies across the globe. We combine fundamental stock selection with proprietary analytical methodologies, grounded in rigorous risk management. BLACK COWRIE FINANCE channels investments into companies in the Infrastructure, Communications, Consumer, Energy, Financials, Healthcare, Industrials, Media and Entertainment, and Technology sectors. Participating in numerous company meetings annually across the globe, we believe in engaging with the companies we analyze and invest with. 

Why Trust Us ?

We deliver the alternative investment industry’s highest quality returns to our investors while maintaining a commitment to our principles of integrity, discipline, and excellence. 

We operate with clarity of purpose, striving to maintain alignment with our investors and working with the expectation that our people will conduct themselves with professionalism and respect for our core values. 

We follow a sharp, systematic process of continuously developing, operating, maintaining, upgrading, and disposing of assets in the most cost-effective manner. We ensure a coordinated approach to the optimization of costs, risks, service/performance and sustainability. 

We put investor capital to work in different investments, including  stocks,  bonds real estate, cryptocurrencies, commodities, forex, oil & gas, master limited partnerships, financial instruments, derivatives trading, bridge loans, hard money loans, and private equity. We work with our client portfolios by considering several variables, including the client's unique circumstances, risks, and preferences. 

We also work with investors who believe in a value investing or passive investing approach. We select positions customized for the client's income needs, tax circumstances, and liquidity expectations. 

We treat transparency as a key strategic element. Our clients always know where the assets are located, how they are being put to use, and whether there are changes made to them. Consequently, the recovery of assets can be done more efficiently, hence, leading to higher returns. We identify and manage risks that arise from the utilization and ownership of certain assets rather early to help mitigate such risks. 

Managing risk is at the core of what we do. We take a measured and thoughtful approach in both our investment and operational activities, pursuing new opportunities rigorously, pragmatically, and with an eye towards maintaining a standard of excellence. 

We believe in constantly improving how we operate, striving to develop leading talent, resources, and processes. 

We are compensated by client investment advisory fees, charged as a percentage of the asset enhancement achieved by our team.  Therefore, our investment management decisions are objective.  The client’s investment success is our only concern.  We consider our relationship with our clients as similar to a partnership. Our Asset Enhancement Advisory team will be glad to discuss more details with clients who are on the lookout for an opportunity to get in touch with asset managers who can ensure good returns on their investments.