What Argos Does
Argos Investment Managers S.A. ("Argos") is a Swiss independent fund management firm based in Geneva licenced by FINMA as a Fund Manager. It manages a number of specialist high conviction investment strategies, each using its own original approach. Argos employs a team of investment professionals dedicated to original research and independent thinking and currently manages seven separate investment strategies: two European small and micro capitalisation Equity Funds, two Equity Long / Short Systematic and three Multi-management / Fund of Funds. Our activities fall into three categories
Using a very focused and disciplined Value Investment philosophy, the Argos team aims to invest in smaller European companies that trade at a substantial discount to both their intrinsic value or to their long term profit potential. The small cap team is one of the most experienced in its field and operates in one of the least researched part of the European markets. This dedication to investing "under the radar screens" and to a very research-intensive process has produced very credible results over the past 8 years. The Argos Argonaut Fund is one of the few funds investing exclusively in micro capitalisation stocks and concentrating on the lowest tiers of European stocks. The Argos Family Enterprise fund uses the same investment philosophy and process but only invests in companies that have a substantial shareholder that is a family. This additional filter has shown to produce strong results over the long term but is as yet widely ignored by most investors.
The Argos quantitative team has developed a number of models trying to capture some biases that investors exhibits when trading in the equity markets. The two funds combine some of the findings of behavioral finance theory with the systematic implementation of trades directly in the markets. Both funds are free of leverage and only invest in futures on equity markets indices. Both offer significant diversification potential to both traditional asset classes and to hedge funds investing. This original approach, combined with systematic trading policies offers investors with a very decorrelating exposure to the equity markets. The Argos Compass fund uses very short term trading patterns (average 2-3 days), whereas the Argos IRIS fund uses three different trading blocks that have a longer time frame.
Funds of long only or hedge funds offered to investors on a "customized managed account" basis or in Luxembourg Part 2 SICAV format. This service enables our clients to partner with a leading fund of hedge fund manager to create a portfolio of hedge funds which responds directly to the individual customer's requirements.
Further information about each of our investment strategies is available to qualifying investors by clicking on "Our Funds".
Argos's fund launch plans give rise to excellent investment opportunities for certain types of investor. For further information, please contact Argos Managers on +41 22 799 90 90, or info@argos-managers.ch