walnutfinance | Alternative Investments

The first Hedge Fund was founded by Alfred Winslow Jones in 1949. Jones's innovation was to sell short some stocks while buying others, thus hedging some of the
market risk. While most of today's hedge funds still trade stocks, both long and short, many do not trade stocks at all and are rather characterized by unconventional
strategies.

Hedge Funds belong to the Alternative Investment class of assets, this indicates that they maintain a relatively low correlation with equity and bond markets, which is
their main attraction. Well-managed Hedge Funds return a steady performance whether in up or down markets.

Walnut Finance offers Hedge Funds, Funds of Hedge Funds, Guaranteed Structures, and Commodity Funds to investors who want to have an exposure to markets with
a low correlation to equity and bond markets.

The Swiss-Asia Genghis Hedge Fund's portfolio
consists on 20-30 investments in the Asia
Pacific Basin (ex-Japan) Hedge Funds. With a
very low volatility and an annualized return
close to +17%, the Swiss-Asia Genghis Hedge
Fund is the perfect instrument to get exposure
to Asia.

Winner of the
Best Asian Fund of Funds Award (Eurekahedge)

Alternative Investments

Commodity Funds (or Managed Futures) are the other main Alternative Funds. Commodity Funds, unlike Hedge Funds deal exclusively in commodities.

There are four main classes of commodities:

Financial (currencies, interests rates)
Metals (gold, silver, copper, platinum, palladium, ...)
Energy (oil, gas, ethanol, ...)
Agricultural (corn, rice, soybean, orange juice, wheat, livestock, wood pulp, ...)

Private Equity could be qualified as the ultimate investment as it allows investors to participate directly -or through structures- to the life of companies that are not yet
accessible through organized markets.

The Private Equity market can be accessed through two kinds of funds:
Private Equity Funds and Funds of Private Equity Funds.

  1. Fund Raising
                   2. Acquisitions
                                   3. Management
                                                   4. Realization of Assets
                                                                   5. Cash Distribution

Typical Cycle of a Private Equity Deal

Since its creation in 1986, HDF has made multi-management its only business. A
leader in that business in France, HDF manages close to €2 Billion. Its
independence from any bank or insurance group is the guarantee of the total
managers, the two keys ingredients of multi-management.
HDF manages 16 directional, alternative and flexible
multi-manager funds.

Women's Executive Fund