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Press release
Amsterdam, 28 January 2015
Amsterdam Investor Forum announces shortlist of six alternative funds for
‘The AIF Factor’ competition
Six alternative investment funds have been selected to compete in ‘The AIF Factor’ on 11 of
February during the Amsterdam Investor Forum (AIF), organised by ABN AMRO Clearing.
Delegates, including a panel of asset allocators, will vote for the most convincing proposition and
appoint the winner.
The shortlisted funds include ‘Skënderbeg Fund’ of Skënderbeg Alternative Investments AG,
‘Trium Blackwall Fund’ of Trium Capital, ‘Arctic Blue’ of Arctic Blue Capital,‘Nordkinn Fixed Income
Macro Fund’ of Nordkinn Asset Management AB, ‘QLAB Convexity DL Fund’ of QLAB Invest
Switzerland and ‘NextAM Tendance Finance’ of Tendance Finance.
‘Once again, we have received numerous submissions from a variety of strategies and countries,
which demonstrates the continuous dynamism of the Alternative Investment industry and the
interest in such investor forums. It was a challenge to select only six finalists out of many
compelling pitches, innovative strategies and sound track records. We believe that the AIF factor
provides a great platform for managers to raise their profiles to investors,’ said Gildas Le Treut,
Global Head of Prime Clearing at ABN AMRO Clearing.
‘The finalists will also gain unique access to the insights of our panel of asset allocators and what
they are currently looking for in their potential investments. In addition, they will gain exposure to
over 200 investors at the leading hedge fund conference in the Benelux,’ said Marc de Kloe, Head
of Alternatives & Funds at ABN AMRO Private Banking.
Strategic meeting place
‘The Amsterdam Investor Forum has become the leading alternative investment event in the
Netherlands and is a strategic meeting place for institutional investors and alternative investment
managers. The main focus is to provide a diversified audience with insights into the latest market
developments in investment strategy and allocations. There will be a range of first-class speakers,
representing some of the greatest investment minds in the business, such as Adamas Asset
Management, Aurum Fund Management, Blackrock, City Financial, COMAC Capital, Eyck Capital
Management, Inoks Capital, Kempen Capital Management, LCF Rothschild, LindenGrove Capital,
Lyxor, Man GLG, Mariner Investment Group, Martin Currie Investment Management, Mercer, North
Asset Management, Odey Asset Management, Omni Partners, PAAMCO, Peters Capital Group,
Pictet Alternative Advisors, Prime Capital, SSARIS, Stenham Advisers, Stratton Street Capital and
Verrazano Capital.
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execution, clearing, custody, financing and risk management, across asset classes, on a wide
range of markets globally. The ABN AMRO Prime Clearing service offering has met with a good
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response from the alternative investment community. We provide innovative services that
include synthetic products. The investment portfolio is risk managed based on correlation
between asset classes. Investment firms particularly value our sound balance sheet, a high
level of asset protection and operational excellence. It is part of the ABN AMRO Clearing
tradition to support and partner with both start-ups and with established alternative
investment funds.
Part of ABN AMRO Bank, ABN AMRO Clearing has 11 offices globally employing more than 800 staff.
ABN AMRO Clearing serves clients on more than 160 exchanges, MTFs, dark pools and FX liquidity
centres and consistently ranks as a top 3 clearer in most time zones with an estimated 10% global market
share. ABN AMRO Clearing offers an integrated approach to global transaction processing, financial
logistics and risk management and processes over 16 million trades per day.
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