
leste global investments
Leste’s investment team for global investments operates in the global financial markets from offices in Miami, London, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
Management Profile:
Investment team specialized in diverse niche markets with historically low correlation, which allows a dynamic allocation of capital and risk for each strategy, and the prevailing market environment.
Investment Philosophy
The liquid asset management unit of Leste focuses on diverse, specialized and complementary investment themes.
With a wide range of strategies, implemented by highly qualified and experienced investment professionals, Leste Global Investments seeks consistent absolute value creation, fully aligned with the risk profile and expected returns by investors.
Value Proposition
Portfolio manager selection is determined by their capacity to generate above average returns, based on low correlation strategies at either normalized or volatile market conditions.
We believe diversification provides flexibility and transparency in the asset allocation under different investment horizons, allowing the principles of risk attribution and risk control to serve the dual purpose of capital preservation and performance optimization.
Leste Global Investments Strategies
The Fund
Leste Global Fund was designed to be a high-performance hedge fund, capable of generating consistent absolute returns in different market situations. In order to achieve its goals, the Fund was structured with the ability to operate in global markets and access thematically supplementary and low correlated specialized investment niches. Fund’s investment strategies are grouped into four clusters, as described below:
Event Driven
This strategy mainly seeks investment opportunities on announced deals involving merger arbitrage share class and special situations.
Corporate Fundamentals
Focuses on soft catalyst events that can change the valuation perception of listed companies in the global markets. Soft catalysts events include capital market activities, re-financings, corporate restructurings, management changes, regulatory changes, competitive dynamics, product innovation and price distortion. Investments are made on listed equity shares and credit instruments.
Macro
Focuses on exploring political and macroeconomic investment theses, covering different asset classes such as FX, interest rates and stocks, in both local and international markets.
Diversified
Covers supplementary and uncorrelated strategies to the main investment themes by trading arbitrations, quantitative models, volatility and other risk classes unrelated to the previous strategies.