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Strategy & Asset Classes

Multi-asset, all-weather.

EHF runs a long-only, all-weather portfolio with a core focus on small-cap equities in developing markets — markets often characterised by the absence of foreign retail investors and a lower presence of large institutions due to liquidity constraints.

What We Invest In

EnergyMetalsAgriculture

Commodities

Capitalising on price dislocations across energy, metals, and agricultural markets.

Small-Cap · Developing Markets

Equities

Detailed fundamental analysis, integrated with macro-regime consideration — a core focus on small-cap equities in developing markets.

FX · Rates · Regimes

Macro · FICC

Macroeconomic regime assessment to limit downside risk through FX, fixed income, and derivatives.

Selective Exposure

Credit

Selective credit exposure within a coherent, risk-first framework.

Systematic · Cross-Asset

Quant

Systematic and quantitative strategies across cross-asset portfolios.

Across the book

Five desks, one process.

Commodities

Energy · Metals · Agriculture

Commodities sit at the centre of an all-weather portfolio. We track physical supply-demand dynamics, storage and convenience-yield effects, and speculative positioning across energy, metals, and agriculture — capitalising on price dislocations while using the asset class as a hedge against inflation and macro regime shifts.

Equities

Small-Cap · Developing Markets

Our core focus is small-cap equities in developing markets — segments with lower foreign-retail participation and lighter institutional presence, where liquidity constraints leave persistent mispricing. Detailed bottom-up fundamental analysis is integrated with a top-down read on the prevailing macro regime.

Macro · FICC

FX · Rates · Regimes

Macro assessment frames every position. Foreign exchange, fixed income, and derivatives are incorporated primarily as risk-management and hedging tools — used to limit downside risk and keep the portfolio resilient as regimes change, rather than as standalone return-seeking bets.

Credit

Selective Exposure

Credit exposure is taken selectively and sized within a coherent, risk-first framework. We weigh liquidity, downside, and how each position interacts with the broader book before inclusion, favouring resilience over reach for yield.

Quant

Systematic · Cross-Asset

Our quant desk researches systematic, cross-asset signals — including commodity risk premia such as carry, time-series momentum, and basis-momentum — and feeds the mean-variance optimisation that determines equity weights from expected returns, volatility, and correlation inputs.

The Framework

A disciplined investment process.

  1. Top-down Security Research
  2. Macroeconomic Regime Analysis
  3. Commodities & Derivatives
  4. FX & Fixed Income Hedging

Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income Instruments, and Derivatives are incorporated primarily as risk-management and hedging tools. Equity weights are determined using a mean-variance optimization framework incorporating expected returns, volatility, and correlation inputs. Prior to inclusion, the Investment Committee assesses trading volume, market capitalization, and core fundamental drivers to ensure liquidity and downside protection.

Benchmark

Benchmark allocation

All activity is conducted within a simulated portfolio, benchmarked against real-time market conditions — process over outcomes.

Equity weights are determined using a mean-variance optimisation framework incorporating expected returns, volatility, and correlation inputs.

  • 40%World Equities Index
  • 30%World Government Bonds
  • 30%World Commodities

Performance

A transparent, benchmark-relative process.

Quarter ended March 2026 · simulated portfolio

0.00%Q1 Return
0.00%Benchmark Return
0.00Sharpe Ratio
0.00Sortino Ratio
EHF
36.28%
Benchmark
6.36%

Figures from the Q1 2026 CIO Letter (Paolo Gayet, 15 May 2026). All activity is conducted within a simulated portfolio for educational purposes; past simulated performance is not indicative of future results.