Starvenus Holdings is a global systematic investment manager. Our centralized research focuses on the development of advanced quantitative techniques for uncovering market opportunities and employs them within a disciplined framework that results in efficient exposures.
With a robust infrastructure and talented investment professionals, Starvenus Holdings offers clients the scale of a large asset management firm, with the benefits of a versatile investment platform – flexibility and customization. Our firm can offer institutional and retail investors the essential building blocks for today’s changing investment landscape.
WE APPROACH SUSTAINABILITY FROM THREE PERSPECTIVES: AS AN ASSET OWNER, AN ASSET MANAGER, AND AS A COMPANY IN OUR OWN RIGHT
While our responsibilities and obligations in each of these three roles may differ, as we discuss below, our approach in all three is united by a common set of principles and ambitions, set out in the box at the bottom of the page.
We serve as an asset owner on behalf of Prudential With-Profts policyholders, and our pensions and annuity customers. This means we make decisions about how to allocate money to different asset classes and which asset manager should manage our money.
We also have the important responsibility of deciding the financial outcomes we want our asset managers to deliver for us, and the sustainability considerations we require them to apply.
For example, if we think that a certain industry does not have a sustainable future, we may require that the asset manager not invest in that industry. Our responsibility as asset owners is to create the best customer outcome in terms of general well-being in line with our fiduciary duty, taking into consideration financial security.
We also invest as an asset manager on behalf of individual savers and asset owner clients. As of 31 December 2020, we manage over £233.4 billion for external clients and £133.8 billion on behalf of our internal clients.
As asset managers, we must aim to deliver the financial outcomes and any sustainability requirements set out in the objectives of each of our mutual funds, or in the mandates, we receive from institutional clients.
Sometimes there may be differences in the sustainability criteria that external clients mandate, and in turn, these may differ from the requirements of our internal clients.
While our values of care and integrity inform all our sustainability work, the asset manager and asset owner have separately regulated businesses with independent Boards and governance processes, and their policies may diverge on occasion.
Starvenus Holdings is a tightly knit group working together with management teams toward common goals. We have more than 70 investment professionals, including 24 partners with an average tenure at Starvenus Holdings of more than a decade. This allows us to devote substantial time to the companies in which we invest.
We believe that people thrive when they are working toward a common and focused goal. We are proud of our transparency and alignment of interest with our portfolio companies and investors. We believe our focus and significant skin in the game allow us to build true, successful partnerships.
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Our objective is to work with portfolio company leadership and create a backdrop in which companies can thrive. We encourage management teams to invest alongside us, and our forward-thinking approach and philosophy to leave companies better than when we found them also means that portfolio company employees often choose to invest alongside Starvenus Holdings as well.
Starvenus Holdings seeks to make investments in companies that meet the following investment criteria:
ﷻ Led by managers with an established track record of achievement
ﷻ Participate in economically attractive, fragmented, niche industries with strong fundamentals
ﷻ Demonstrate a sustainable competitive advantage, including an ability to grow, innovate and withstand economic downturns
ﷻ Possess strong market positions, attractive cash flow attributes, and high return on investment enabling them, inter alia, to service a leveraged capitalization
ﷻ Enjoy excellent organic or acquisitive growth prospects
Starvenus Holdings has experience executing the following transaction types:
ﷻ Management buyouts of public and privately held companies and divisions of larger companies
ﷻ Recapitalizations of closely held businesses to provide additional financing or liquidity for existing investors
ﷻ Acquisitions of companies seeking the financing required to execute consolidation strategies in fragmented but attractive industries
ﷻ Selected equity financings of growth companies that have demonstrated significant potential Equity investments in growth companies
ﷻ Investments in companies participating in industries in which Starvenus Holdings has extensive investment experience
We have always believed that we can make a difference in the world through our investments.
As a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI), we are committed to the aspirational principles for incorporating ESG considerations into our investment approach.
We believe markets to be largely efficient and strive to provide systematic exposure to certain risk-based and behaviorally driven factors that can be combined intelligently to deliver results for investors.
Our ongoing investment in the research and design of our investment strategies, including ESG-related approaches, seeks to ensure style and returns consistency, while continually evaluating new data, statistics, investment ideas, and quantitative methods.
We have a long history of accommodating client-specific requests and exclusions of certain securities from an investment universe, such as those deemed socially or environmentally undesirable or operating in regions where human rights abuses are prevalent.
In addition, we are responsible for voting proxies on behalf of clients that have granted the authority to us. We have engaged Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (ISS), a third-party proxy voting agent, to provide proxy voting research and execution services on behalf of our clients, while we reserve directive control over ultimate proxy voting. Typically, we follow the ISS Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) Proxy Voting Guidelines.
We seek to manage risk to capitalize on opportunities and improve our performance. Disciplined risk estimation and management are deeply integrated components of the investment process across each one of our strategies.
We believe a well-constructed portfolio upfront will outperform in good markets and protect our client’s capital in difficult markets. For this reason, Starvenus Holdings has spent over a quarter of a century establishing risk management as a core discipline. This approach begins with a dedicated governance group that oversees risk management. An emphasis on liquid markets, proprietary risk models and a diversified funding structure seeks to further strengthen our approach.
Operating independently of the investment businesses, and reporting to the CEO, the Portfolio Construction and Risk Group (PCG) guides the allocation of risk capital. It is supported by a dedicated R&D team to create custom tools and technologies.
.Starvenus Holdings Risk Management Center provides a comprehensive view of the various investment portfolios and how they fit within pre-established guidelines. Built in 2014, its front end consists of a 27’ by 8’ interactive touchscreen designed to visualize data in ways that allow for rapid comprehension. Its back-end systems, which connect to every Starvenus Holdings office worldwide, continuously run a wide range of operational readiness, risk, and stress test monitors.
In pre-trade discussions, the Portfolio Construction and Risk group works to identify the impact of potential trades on a portfolio’s risk and stress exposures. In the ex-post analysis, the group evaluates the skill, infrastructure, investment universe, risk, and working capital utilization of each business, and uses this information as a part of the risk capital allocation process.
A solid framework is important, but successful risk management can only be accomplished when it becomes a central part of the portfolio manager’s analysis of potential trades and portfolio construction. Continuous communication and collaboration with the investment teams, combined with an in-depth understanding of the portfolios, play a critical role in maintaining and strengthening our risk culture.
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