Capricorn Private Investments

Capricorn Private Investments

Investment Management

London, Greater London 539 followers

About us

An independent, London-based, Private Investment Office managing discretionary capital entrusted to us by our shareholders and a small number of other wealthy families and institutions. Our cornerstone investor is the Capricorn Group – a significant international family office with a successful track record built up across 30 years of investing in both liquid and illiquid assets,mainly in the UK and South Africa. The other families we work with are typically centred around first-generation entrepreneurs who have sold businesses, often in the Technology and Financial Services sectors. They have investable assets in excess of $25m, but do not have the appetite to set up their own family office structures and would prefer to work with an independent provider. Our philosophy is grounded in the multi-asset class endowment approach used by many of the most sophisticated investors in the US and Europe. We seek to achieve excess returns by partnering and co-investing with best in class third party managers who have specialist expertise in niche areas. We provide our families with highly customized advice which diversifies their portfolios across Equities, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Property, Credit and uncorrelated strategies. With the help of our network, shareholders, and clients we are fortunate to have access to many of the top performing (often hard closed)managers in each of those areas. Our twin objectives are to give clients an experience equivalent to having capital managed by their own family office with the investment approach of a leading endowment fund. We believe these investors pursue a strategy that has consistently put them among the most successful institutional investors in the world.

Industry
Investment Management
Company size
2-10 employees
Headquarters
London, Greater London
Type
Privately Held
Founded
2016

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  • Capricorn Private Investments reposted this

    Last Wednesday, the Capricorn Private Investments team hosted our Autumn drinks at the Athenaeum Club in London. We were delighted to be joined by so many friends of the firm, old and new, our senior advisors Dipankar Shewaram, CFA, Robert Gottlieb and Matt Briers, and most importantly some of our clients, whose support is hugely appreciated.   Will Thomas, Managing Director, welcomed guests and provided an update on our pleasing recent investment performance and growth of the firm, both in assets under supervision and in terms of headcount, which we believe is testament to the continued need for independent and unconflicted advice.   Thank you to everyone who joined us. We appreciate your support.   #privateinvestmentoffice #OCIO #discretionarymanagement 

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  • Last Wednesday, the Capricorn Private Investments team hosted our Autumn drinks at the Athenaeum Club in London. We were delighted to be joined by so many friends of the firm, old and new, our senior advisors Dipankar Shewaram, CFA, Robert Gottlieb and Matt Briers, and most importantly some of our clients, whose support is hugely appreciated.   Will Thomas, Managing Director, welcomed guests and provided an update on our pleasing recent investment performance and growth of the firm, both in assets under supervision and in terms of headcount, which we believe is testament to the continued need for independent and unconflicted advice.   Thank you to everyone who joined us. We appreciate your support.   #privateinvestmentoffice #OCIO #discretionarymanagement 

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  • Capricorn Private Investments is delighted to announce the appointment of Dipankar Shewaram, CFA as Senior Advisor. Dip brings over two decades of investment and wealth management expertise to CPI and will significantly strengthen our investment offering to our growing client base.   Dip has held a variety of senior investment management roles through his career, including senior portfolio manager roles at BlueBay and Western Asset Management where he led a team managing ~$25B in fixed income and absolute return mandates. Most recently he was a Partner and Head of Investment Solutions at Capital Generation Partners, a prominent private investment office working with family office and HNW clients in the management of their investment programmes.   Dip currently serves on several investment committees, including Westminster School and the Motability Foundation. The Foundation is approximately £2.7B in assets and has been providing critical transportation needs for families impacted by disabilities for over 40 years.    In addition to the above Dip is also a practitioner lecturer on the Strategic Investment Management Executive programme at London Business School. He has a first-class degree in Economics from UCL and MSc in Finance and Economics from LSE and is also a CFA charterholder.   He is also keen cyclist, runner and cook (we look forward to trying some of his specialties in due course 😊)

  • The Capricorn Private Investments team are delighted to have collected an award at last week's European Wealthbriefing Awards 2024.   🏆 - Private Investment Office, Highly Commended 🌍 - European WealthBriefing Awards 2024   The judges granted this award to Capricorn Private Investments "due to their strength and deep understanding of their clients, along with their ability and commitment to craft diversified portfolios across multiple asset classes. Furthermore, the firm has an impressive track record of achieving excess returns by sourcing and partnering with best-in-class managers with specialist expertise".   What are the WealthBriefing European Awards?   WealthBriefing is a London-based global financial media that has been providing news and analysis in the field of wealth management since 2005. The awards are being presented this year for the 12th time. The awards recognise firms that demonstrate excellence in the wealth management industry.   Thank you to our clients, colleagues and the esteemed judging panel - and congratulations to other category winners!    #privateinvestmentoffice #wealthmanagement #wealthbriefing #UHNW

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  • Capricorn Private Investments reposted this

    2023 was a year of twists and turns but in the end a relatively good one for investors and once again showed the difficulty in short term forecasting. Having digested a large number of views over the last few weeks we see the outlook as very nuanced, no doubt still heavily influenced by the ripple effects of Covid. With the peak in interest rates in, the next big story is about how far and how quickly they move lower. In our recently published outlook letter we discuss our portfolio positioning in more detail, and as usual focus our efforts on bottom-up opportunities that can perform in different scenarios and making sure we construct portfolios in a truly diversified manner to weather unpredictable outcomes. https://lnkd.in/e3QiwqRg #familyoffice #investment #outlook

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  • 2023 was a year of twists and turns but in the end a relatively good one for investors and once again showed the difficulty in short term forecasting. Having digested a large number of views over the last few weeks we see the outlook as very nuanced, no doubt still heavily influenced by the ripple effects of Covid. With the peak in interest rates in, the next big story is about how far and how quickly they move lower. In our recently published outlook letter we discuss our portfolio positioning in more detail, and as usual focus our efforts on bottom-up opportunities that can perform in different scenarios and making sure we construct portfolios in a truly diversified manner to weather unpredictable outcomes. https://lnkd.in/e3QiwqRg #familyoffice #investment #outlook

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