We are a global systematic investment manager
We are an international financial company investing across financial markets and cryptocurrency exchanges through qualified professional traders. Our goal is a reliable source of income for investors, with risk kept to a minimum.
Our infrastructure gives clients the scale of a large asset manager with the flexibility of a versatile platform — the essential building blocks for institutional and retail investors alike.
- £233.4m Managed for external clients
- £133.8m Managed for our internal clients
- 70+ Investment professionals, including 24 partners
- 25 yrs Building risk management as a core discipline
Helping people and businesses unlock their potential
We support our colleagues, customers and clients — and the communities they operate in — by helping people and businesses unlock their potential and plan ahead with confidence, through relationships built to last.
Exceptional service sits at the heart of this. Each of our specialist businesses brings deep industry knowledge, so we understand the challenges our clients face and support them to thrive rather than simply survive, whatever the market conditions.
Expertise, service and relationships combined with teamwork, integrity and prudence underpin our approach. We also recognise a responsibility to help address the social, economic and environmental challenges facing our business and our clients.
We continue to be there for the long term, whatever the climate — making decisions that are right for today and for generations to come.
Venux Capital
Our principles and ambitions
We approach sustainability from three perspectives: an asset owner, an asset manager, and as a company in our own right.
Our responsibilities differ in each of these three roles, but our approach is united by one common set of principles and ambitions.
As an asset owner, we decide how money is allocated across asset classes and which managers handle it — and we set both the financial outcomes and the sustainability considerations we expect them to apply.
Where we judge that an industry has no sustainable future, we may require that our managers avoid it entirely. Our duty as an asset owner is the best customer outcome in line with our fiduciary duty, financial security included.
As an asset manager, we aim to deliver the financial outcomes and sustainability requirements set out in each fund's objectives or in our institutional mandates. Those criteria can differ between clients: the asset manager and asset owner are separately regulated businesses with independent boards, so their policies may occasionally diverge.
Our sustainability principles
These apply across the investments we make as an asset manager and asset owner, and to our own operations.
- We consider sustainability and ESG factors in our corporate strategy and new business initiatives.
- We weigh the interests of all stakeholders, consistent with our long-term approach.
- We embed sustainability considerations throughout our business.
- We hold our own businesses to the same standards we expect of investee companies.
- We aim to innovate and advance understanding of sustainability issues.
- We review our thinking regularly against scientific, technological and economic change.
- We believe active ownership encourages companies toward a sustainable future.
- We use our influence as a global investor to drive change in policy and corporate standards.
Underpinned by constant evolution and a long-term approach
How we integrate sustainability — and the governance that holds us to it.
ESG Integration
We integrate environmental, social and governance data into analysis and decision-making across every investment team.
Stewardship
We are active stewards of the entities we invest in — hand in hand with our active investment approach.
Corporate Responsibility
ESG is built into our corporate responsibility program, including our philanthropic work and our focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Dedicated Resources
Dedicated teams deliver our ESG strategy, policy, research, training and reporting.
Industry Partners
We are a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment, a member of the UN Global Compact and Climate Action 100+, and a public supporter of the TCFD.
Formal Governance
Our Sustainability Committee of senior leaders oversees strategy execution, supported by working groups that report into it.
A tightly knit group, working toward common goals
Outstanding team
We are a tightly knit group working with management teams toward common goals: more than 70 investment professionals, including 24 partners averaging over a decade with us. That stability lets us devote real time to the companies we back.
Collaborative style
We work with portfolio company leadership to create conditions in which companies thrive, and we encourage management teams to invest alongside us. Our aim is to leave every company better than we found it.
Alignment of interest
People thrive working toward a common goal. Our transparency — and significant skin in the game — is what lets us build genuine partnerships.
What we look for in a company
Companies that meet our criteria
- Led by managers with an established track record.
- Operating in attractive, fragmented niche industries with strong fundamentals.
- A sustainable competitive advantage, able to grow and withstand downturns.
- Strong market positions, attractive cash flow and high return on investment.
- Enjoy excellent organic or acquisitive growth prospects.
Transaction types we execute
- Management buyouts of public and privately held companies and divisions of larger companies.
- Recapitalizations providing financing or liquidity for existing investors.
- Acquisitions funding consolidation strategies in fragmented industries.
- Equity financings and investments in growth companies with proven potential.
- Investments in industries where we have extensive experience.
What our partners can expect of us
At the heart of our business are our partners: the teams we back, the investors in our funds, and the advisers and lenders we work with.
Winning
We are constantly improving and committed to out-thinking our competitors. We take on what others dismiss as impossible — which is why we hire the best.
Integrity
We do things the right way, first time, every time. We are direct, decisive and accountable, and we win on the merits.
Learning
We learn constantly — from each other and from inspired thinkers worldwide — pursuing ideas that strengthen our competitive advantage.
Our approach to ESG and responsible investing
We have always believed we can make a difference through our investments. As a UN PRI signatory, we are committed to incorporating ESG considerations into our approach.
We believe markets are largely efficient, and aim to give systematic exposure to risk-based and behavioural factors that combine intelligently to deliver results.
Continual research into our strategies, ESG approaches included, keeps style and returns consistent while we evaluate new data and quantitative methods.
We have long accommodated client-specific exclusions — securities deemed socially or environmentally undesirable, or tied to regions where human rights abuses are prevalent.
We also vote proxies for clients who grant us the authority. Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) provides the research and execution while we retain directive control, and we typically follow the ISS Socially Responsible Investing guidelines.
Risk management at the center
Disciplined risk estimation is built into the investment process behind every one of our strategies.
A well-constructed portfolio outperforms in good markets and protects capital in difficult ones. We have spent over a quarter of a century making risk management a core discipline, overseen by a dedicated governance group and strengthened by liquid markets, proprietary risk models and a diversified funding structure.
The Venux Capital prime way
A dedicated risk management team
Independent of the investment businesses and reporting to the CEO, the Portfolio Construction and Risk Group guides risk capital allocation, supported by a dedicated R&D team.
The Risk Management Center
Our Risk Management Center gives a complete view of every portfolio against pre-established guidelines. Connected to each of our offices worldwide, it continuously runs operational readiness, risk and stress-test monitors.
Run rigorous processes
Before a trade, the group identifies its impact on portfolio risk and stress exposures. Afterwards, it evaluates each business on skill, infrastructure, risk and capital use — feeding straight back into risk capital allocation.
Reinforce the culture
A framework alone is not enough: risk management works only when it is central to how managers analyse trades and build portfolios. Continuous collaboration with the investment teams is what sustains that culture.
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