Investment Week – Hedge Fund Day
On the 29th of May the Investment Week will kick off with the Hedge Fund day!
Are you passionate about unconventional investment strategies? Have you always wanted to discover the ins and outs of hedging and derivatives? Are you going to generate the highest alpha ever measured for your clients?
Then the Hedge Fund day is just the event for you! During this day you will meet three different funds: Privium, Pelargos Capital and Saemor Capital. All three are at the top of their game and are ready to meet you. Are you ready as well?
Apply now for this unique experience!

Mark Braak
Privium
Mark Baak is a Director of Privium Fund Management B.V., he has held this position since the establishment of the company. Baak brings 10 years of experience in the asset management industry. Prior to his current role, he founded and headed the fund management team at Finles Capital Management. In his role as Head of portfolio management, he was responsible for external manager selection and portfolio management. Mark received his master degree in economics from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and is a CAIA charterholder. He initiated the Holland Hedge Fund Index and is a regular columnist and presenter at industry seminars.

Michael Kretschmer
Pelargos Capital
Michael has been with Pelargos since its foundation in 2008. Together with Richard he manages the Pelargos Japan Alpha Fund. In his role as a CIO, Michael combines his analytical qualities with his need to think out-of-the-box.
Michael observes and investigates. He is always looking for the contrarian view behind the obvious mainstream opinion. Financial markets are indeed complex systems, but, according to him, admitting to what is unknowable helps to focus on the what can be understood. Michael is especially fascinated by investors’ irrational behavior and tendency to extrapolate trends. That explains his interest in Asian financial markets, which are frequently dominated by irrational behavior. According to Michael, economics and investment theory are a social sciences and common sense are key to understand the cross currents of equity investing.
Michael gets the jitters if investors all want one and the same thing. In these situations he challenges his team members asking them ‘what is wrong here?’ and subsequently develops ideas on how to turn this particular situation into an investment opportunity. There is always an opportunity somewhere, but in order to detect it one needs to take a perspective often different from what ‘Mister Market’ thinks. According to Michael that’s what investing is all about: in order to win, you have to approach things in a different way.

Louis Heij
Saemor Capital
Louis is a portfolio manager. He is responsible for portfolio optimization and trading. He also covers the Information Technology, Telecommunication, Media and Automobile sectors. Louis started at ING in 1998 as a Fixed Income Strategist for European bond markets. Since 2000 he worked as a Quantitative Equity Strategist within ING. He advised institutional investors in Europe regarding the investment process and portfolio construction, using quantitative models for stock selection, sector allocation and tactical asset allocation. He was also responsible for proprietary trading using statistical arbitrage models.
Louis holds a MSc degree in Financial Econometrics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and ranked #2 in Extel’s Pan-European Survey 2008 in the category Relative Value. He is registered with the Dutch Securities Institute (DSI).