Investment Strategies

How we invest

The firm is built around a compact international team whose experience spans global institutions and different markets, cultures and disciplines. This international perspective shapes the way we read markets, assess opportunities and manage risk.

Our investing is guided by a global macro perspective, translated into the strategies currently managed through our fund structures, and grounded in one discipline: understand the risk before pursuing the return. Our strategies currently focus on real estate, fund of funds and macro strategies, each implemented in accordance with the relevant fund or sub-fund documents, investment policy, risk limits and governance framework.

Our strategy rests on three commitments: preserve capital through disciplined risk management, remain flexible across changing market regimes, and deploy capital decisively when dislocations create opportunities within the scope of the relevant strategy. A fourth commitment governs the other three: invest with integrity, because how we invest matters as much as what we invest in.

Our philosophy

Implementing Geoeconomics.

Geoeconomics is the study of how power organises economies: how policy and security, resources and demographics, trade and technology decide where capital is protected and where it is exposed. Most investors treat these forces as background. We treat them as a primary driver of long-term return.

Implementation follows a defined path. Research forms a view of the forces at work, tested against multiple scenarios and against what our network observes on the ground. Conviction is then translated into exposures, position by position, with quantitative discipline governing size, stress and limits: judgement decides the direction, the framework decides the scale.

The standard is concrete: capital committed where the world is going, not where it has been, in structures built to endure the journey.

In practice: macroeconomic analysis, geopolitical assessment and research into natural resources and structural change tell us where in the world value is forming; risk budgeting, scenario analysis and continuous monitoring govern how we act on it.

The future lives in the power to generate more scenarios.

Scenario generation at V PLUS PLUS is a quantitative discipline. Our models generate and price alternative futures, historical and hypothetical, across every portfolio: shocks to rates, spreads, currencies, correlations and liquidity, each mapped to the positions it would affect.

The mathematics serves one question: asymmetry. For every path we measure what can be gained against what can be lost, and how far the portfolio stands from irreversible loss. Position sizes are set to the stressed case rather than the benign one, and the scenarios are re-run as conditions change, so that the map never ages.

Judgement selects the futures that deserve attention. The framework ensures that each one is measured, sized and survivable.

In practice: every portfolio is tested against hypothetical and historical scenarios, position sizes are set to a stressed case rather than a benign one, and the distance from irreversible loss is measured before any allocation decision is made.

Beyond it lies capital that endures.

A long horizon is not patience: it is an advantage that must be earned. Time rewards only the investor who can hold through what markets do in between, so the first test of every commitment is survivability: conservative leverage, liquidity that does not depend on benign conditions, and structures whose life is measured in decades, not reporting cycles.

The horizon disciplines the selection. We commit to assets and companies whose value grows with time rather than against it: durable demand, real assets, governance that survives succession. What cannot endure a full cycle does not enter the portfolio, whatever it promises on the way in.

New capital, in turn, is directed where endurance is being built: toward the reconstruction of what has been broken, and the resilience the coming decades will demand. Compounding does the rest; our task is to remain invested long enough to let it.

In practice: we favour structures, assets and companies built to outlast cycles, hold them with active stewardship, and direct new capital toward reconstruction and resilience across the regions where we invest.

Returns our clients can stand behind

We seek to compound our clients’ capital across cycles, through portfolios built on disciplined risk, priced with realism and managed with integrity. The result we work for is durable: returns earned in ways our clients can examine, understand and stand behind.

Discipline.
Risk understood before return

Risk is understood, budgeted and monitored before any pursuit of performance. Every position carries a defined place within the whole, and its contribution to portfolio risk is measured before capital is committed.

Integrity.
The floor, not the ceiling

Ethical standards and regulatory duties are treated as the floor, not the ceiling. As a CySEC-regulated AIFM these duties are also obligations. We treat them as the minimum, not the standard.

Materiality.
Substance over marketing

ESG factors are integrated where they move value and risk, asset by asset, not by label. Findings can change a valuation, reshape a structure, add conditions to a mandate or end our interest in a transaction.

Alignment.
One mandate, one interest

Each mandate is structured so that our interest and the investor’s point in the same direction. Governance, reporting and incentives are defined at the outset, and we hold ourselves to the standards we require of others for the life of the mandate.

Our edge

Macro Strategy:
designed to behave differently

A global macro strategy invests top-down: it starts from the forces that move entire markets, growth, inflation, monetary and fiscal policy, currencies and geopolitics, and expresses views across asset classes rather than in single securities. It is among the widest mandates in asset management, and one of the few built to earn from markets falling as well as rising. Historically, this has given macro strategies a low correlation to traditional portfolios of equities and bonds.

At V PLUS PLUS this is not one strategy among others; it is how the firm thinks. Our geoeconomic research and scenario generation exist to answer one question: where is the balance of risk and reward shifting, before prices say so.

Top-down by design.

Views are formed on the variables that move whole markets: growth, inflation, policy, currencies and geopolitics. Ideas are ranked by asymmetry, what can be gained against what can be lost, before any capital moves.

In practice: macroeconomic and geopolitical analysis sets the direction; scenario generation and risk budgeting set the size.

Long and short, liquid by mandate.

Positions can benefit from rising and falling markets alike, expressed through liquid instruments across equities, bonds, currencies and commodities, so exposure can change as fast as conditions do.

In practice: liquid multi-asset portfolios managed with a global macro method, kept simple enough to reposition in days, not quarters.

Calibrated for risk-off.

Most portfolios are built for expansion and merely survive contraction. Ours is calibrated for the opposite moment: through convex positioning and disciplined liquidity, we seek to generate returns precisely when risk assets sell off. Returns earned in those phases carry a value beyond their size: they arrive when the rest of a portfolio needs them most.

In practice: convex positions designed to gain in drawdowns, and liquidity preserved to act on the opportunities dislocations leave behind.

Macro tells us where to look. The territory tells us what is true.

Alongside the macro framework, V PLUS PLUS maintains an extensive network of collaborators, partners and advisers across the markets in which it operates. Through these relationships, the firm obtains local insights from experienced market participants and advisers regarding market conditions, counterparties, assets and potential opportunities, supported by first-hand observations as well as published reports and market data. This approach helps ensure that the global view remains grounded, with opportunities identified through local insight and disciplined research, verified on the ground and assessed with local market expertise.

Our framework considers

Local partners & operators
Legal, tax & technical advisers
Market & counterparty intelligence
Assets seen first-hand
Off-market opportunity sourcing
Local execution & verification

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Asset Classes

Our capabilities extend across a broad range of investment strategies designed to address different objectives, market environments and risk profiles.

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