Coaster is an investment management boutique founded in 2019. The firm was established with a goal to design, develop, and manage a selection of exclusive, high-performing funds, with limited capacity. Importantly, the firm is 100 percent owned by our executive team who are invested alongside our clients in Coaster’s funds.
We seek to build hedge funds that leverage our specific areas of expertise and track records. We are focused on investing in areas where there is the opportunity for enduring alpha generation, and on working with experts that have demonstrated their ability over different business and market cycles.
Our strategies do not compete with one another.
While all our strategies are geographically or sector focussed, our investment teams collaborate when appropriate, participate in firm-wide risk discussions, and share a common investment infrastructure platform. This approach allows each manager to focus on its opportunities while having the benefit of other market perspectives.
For each strategy, Coaster seeks to ensure that our funds do not outgrow the opportunity (e.g. liquidity and capacity). As investors in our own funds, we ensure alignment of our investors’ interests with our own. Our approach is to maximise investment returns so that we are rewarded through our performance as opposed to assets under management.
While founded in 2019, the Coaster staff are all finance industry veterans with long successful track records of investing in equities and managing hedge funds.
Prior to establishing Coaster Capital, Charlie Brown and Alnoor Premji worked together at KIS Capital Partners for over a decade. The team were responsible for managing the highly successful KIS Asia Long Short Fund, which delivered 11.76% p.a. (after fees) from inception in October 2009 to April 2019.
Sam Brandenburg comes from a portfolio management background. Sam worked for BB Capital, a resources focussed family office.
We are pragmatic investors who specialise in long short investing. We understand that the alpha available to a given strategy is finite, and have deliberately limited the maximum size of each our funds according to the liquidity of their traded markets. We are active managers, unconstrained by indices or benchmarks.
Prior to Coaster Capital, Charlie was an owner and Portfolio Manager at KIS Capital Partners, a private funds management business, which managed approximately $300 million in funds under management for Australian and overseas investors.
Sam has been involved with financial markets at BB Capital, a private family office, since 2005. At BB Capital, Sam was a Portfolio Manager and Resource Sector Analyst. Sam has extensive experience with financing both listed and unlisted resource companies.
Alnoor has over 25 years in senior finance roles with both local and international experience covering accounting, operations, risk, integration, M&A, profit turnaround and change management.
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