Employs a single-stock, bottom-up, fundamental research approach to invest in Asian markets
Our Firm
Saola Capital
Management LP
Our Mission
The saola, dubbed an “Asian unicorn”, is a critically endangered animal that scientists have categorically documented in the wild on only four occasions to date
A saola also represents the endangered nature of an active investment manager that legitimately earns its fees by consistently generating alpha
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We must consistently outperform or we should cease to exist
A saola represents the distinctiveness and rarity of what we are trying to achieve
Consistently generate alpha and and deliver positive returns in any market
Hire and develop not only the most competent professionals but those with impeccable integrity and a passion for fundamental investing
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Investment performance
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Team
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Culture
Build the “dream” firm where we would want to work and structure the business so it is self-sustaining
We take our fiduciary responsibility to investors seriously – we intend to manage clients’ money more carefully than we would manage our own
Saola’s investment objective is to achieve consistent and long-term capital appreciation, and to do so through generating absolute returns from year to year that are less volatile than and exceed the returns of any relevant equity market index on a risk-adjusted basis.
Our investment strategy to achieve this objective is summarized as follows:
We employ a rigorous bottom-up, fundamental research process with a longer-term investment horizon
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A private equity-like research approach to public equity
We focus on pan-Asian equities, particularly in Greater China, Japan, and Korea with limited exposure to the U.S. and other geographic markets
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Developed market approach applied to under-developed capital markets
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Application of global industry knowledge to realize synergies across the Asian region
We seek to generate alpha through exploiting single stock, idiosyncratic risk
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Each position in the portfolio will have a fundamental, stock-specific thesis
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We will generally not be making macroeconomic, directional bets and will specifically seek to avoid more macro-driven industries, unless we believe we have some fundamental edge
Investment Strategy
George Kim
Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer
George Kim is the Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of Saola Capital. From 2010 to 2015, George worked at Kylin Management, where he was most recently a Managing Director and its most senior investment professional other than its two founding partners. At Kylin, George’s investment responsibilities included fundamental, bottom-up, company-specific research and analysis across Asia on a broad range of industries, including Internet, leisure and gaming, telecommunications, IT services, and financial services. George’s management responsibilities at Kylin also included the recruiting and training of new research analysts. Previous to Kylin, George was an Associate with private equity firm J.C. Flowers & Co. from 2006 to 2008 where his responsibilities included the evaluation and execution of privately negotiated investments in financial services companies globally. Previous to J.C. Flowers, George covered financial institutions as an Analyst in the Investment Banking Division of Citigroup from 2004 to 2006. George received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Finance with a minor in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Kurtis J. Petersons
Partner and Chief Operating Officer
Kurtis is a Partner and Head Trader for Saola Capital. Prior to joining Saola Capital, Kurtis was an Associate Director and Trader at Kylin Management since 2009. At Kylin, Kurtis led the company’s trading and operations infrastructure upgrade from homegrown Excel-based systems to streamlined institutional software. Prior to Kylin, Kurtis was an Operations Associate at Chilton Investment Company in 2008. Before Chilton, Kurtis was a Hedge Fund Accountant for Citigroup Global Transaction Services from 2005 to 2008. Kurtis received a B.A. in Financial Economics from the University of Maine.
Senior Team
Address: 1345 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10105
Email: info@saolacap.com
