| Company Overview
Background:
ViamInvest's founder H. Mathiesen, Ph.D.
worked in academics when he in October 2005 first tested the
profitability of a novel quantitative system for value investing in
public stock markets. These early test results looked so promising that
he decided to invest all of his time to convert the originally academic
setup into a doable commercial asset management system. The asset
management system is now ready for business but we still have work to do
with regard to organizational issues, legal compliance,
tax issues, partner relations, offering material, etc.
Our Business
ViamInvest specializes in global and quantitative value investing at
public stock markets in the small cap market segment. The fund that
ViamInvest will manage is mostly comparable to a mutual fund but it also
has features that are more common for hedge funds. It is like a typical mutual fund in the
sense that its investments are highly diversified and non-leveraged and
consequently we do not depend on hedging to reduce our market risks. The
hedge fund characteristics of our fund are that it is being
sold only to accredited investors, that it is exclusively holding assets
that are picked with the intention of creating high alphas and
consequently it also charges a performance fee in addition to
the customary management fee. For information about our
investment
objective and our
investment
strategy please follow the links.
Corporate
Mantra
The mantra of ViamInvest is >Experienced Asset Management<. This mantra is
chosen because we have developed our asset management system with the
guidance of experience from reproduced performance data. Specifically, our
experience has been obtained by simulating the performance of
our investment system using a large database with the necessary
historical data on stock returns, trading volume and company information. ViamInvest sticks 100% to the stock selection by our
proprietary investment system no matter what happens in the stock
market. This is because we have extensive reproduced performance data showing that our
investment system delivers returns that are well above the long-term global stock market
return with risk no worse than that market. These abnormal long-term returns are
robust to a wide variety of changes in procedures and assumptions with
regard to our investment system and our test system. As a result, our
superior reproduced performance data are very unlikely to be a
result of peculiar data mining or data errors.
Just like other firms
ViamInvest continues to develop and improve our investment system
because we know the scope for perfection is endless. However, no change
of our quantitative investment system will be authorized unless it performs
significantly better with regard to its reproduced performance and
furthermore that this superior performance still prevails when subjected
to
extensive robustness tests. This is what we mean by Experienced Asset
Management.
Name
ViamInvest is
composed of the Latin word 'viam' meaning >the road ahead< and the word
'invest' to inform about our type of business. Viam is pronounced 'wē-äm'.
Viam is easy to recall as the initials of Value Investing Asset
Management.
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