Core Philosophy
Our core philosophy comprises of 3 essential tenets that form the DNA of our people and our daily actions
Circle of Knowledge and Competence
We seek opportunities only in sectors where we have a deep understanding in, thereby focusing in few select sectors where we can impact accelerated growth through capital efficiency, operational productivity, and management bandwidth. As a result, we advise on investments that utilizes our distinctive capability of combining our financial skills with our operation expertise.
Priority of Risk control
We are driven by Price-Value relationship and move only when we see a clear distortion
between the two, due to market forces or cyclical behavior. We strongly believe Price is the
most critical risk and no asset class is good enough to be invested at any given Price. Therefore
we prioritize safety of investor capital over everything else.
Triune of Conviction-Execution-Scale
We use data and rationale to identify specific themes that we have a high conviction in. Thereafter we build expertise to execute against our high-conviction themes and then, concentrate scale only around our high-conviction strategies to drive superior performance, instead of spreading resources on one-off opportunities. As a result, we retain ability to intervene through incorporation of strengthened governance and solid control mechanisms.
Our primary job is to think about risk. We find that once we have controlled the downside, the upside takes care of itself.
Transaction Profiles
Our mindset is that of a long-term business builder for target assets, by intervening with our combined financial and operation expertise. We advise investors in conjunction to our highconviction themes guided by our Core Philosophy. It is our fundamental operating principle that all investment advices go through the same standard of process, based on diligence rigour and execution detailing, and the same is discussed transparently with the investor. Being proactively transparent with our investors, in detail, aligns us with our long-term mindset and we are deeply committed to that responsibility.
We typically advise investments under following profiles :
Carve-outs
Control buy-outs
Growth