Category: Investments and funds. Country: United Kingdom (UK).
An off shore fund investing in fine wines for capital growth. Managed by OWC Asset Management Limited which is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). About the Fund. The Vintage Wine Fund is a Cayman based investment company, which was established to invest in fine wine with an objective of steady, high capital growth. The Fund is managed on a full discretionary basis by OWC Asset Management Limited, a London based wine investment management company regulated in the marketing of the Fund by the Financial Services Authority. All administration including fund valuations is done entirely independently by Olympia Capital (Ireland) Limited in Dublin. The Fund invests in top wines from many different regions. Due to the large size of production, Bordeaux forms a significant proportion of the Fund however, the top wines from Burgundy and the Rhone valley can show spectacular returns and while not available in the same quantity as Bordeaux, are an important part of the Fund. There are very exciting wines being produced in Tuscany and Piedmont which regularly merit inclusion. Other regions including Champagne, Spain, Portugal, California and Australia are also considered. The Investment Manager OWC Asset Management Limited. The Manager of the Fund is OWC Asset Management Limited which is based in London. OWC is regulated in the marketing of wine investment Funds by the Financial Services Authority. Andrew Davison: former senior derivatives trader at Deutsche Bank where he was a Director of the Global Markets Division with responsibility for market-making and proprietary trading of Euro Options - one of Deutsche’s largest trading books. He left the City with a track record of eight years profitable trading... Gary Boom has been collecting fine wine for over fifteen years and is a founding director of the wine merchant Bordeaux Index Limited which was established in 1997. He is a director of Mirror Image Group and Moving Image Group which own a number of well known restaurants in central London.
Between 1985 and 2001 he worked for several leading London money brokers specialising in interest rate options and was a main board director at Intercapital Group... Paolo Cristofolini is a leading figure of the alternative asset management industry. From 1998 to 2003 he was President of Agora Capital Management Ltd. From 1993 to 1998, Mr. Cristofolini first established and headed the European offices of Commodities Corporation, then ran simultaneously the European Private Asset Management Group at Goldman Sachs. From 1989 to 1992 Mr. Cristofolini founded and headed the first European investment manager exclusively dedicated to alternative trading strategies. Before that he worked with JP Morgan in Paris, New York, and Geneva. Mr. Cristofolini holds a Maîtrise de Gestion from Dauphine University in Paris, France...
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