O'Connor

Dynamic investing, controlled risk

O'Connor is a distinct investment area within UBS Asset Management, with complete independence in regards to investment decision-making. O'Connor's capabilities cover a wide range of investment programs, which seek to achieve attractive risk-adjusted absolute returns with low correlation to most major asset classes and traditional investment benchmarks.

Delivering the best of our capabilities to you

Dedicated absolute return investment management

  • through our global long/short equities, credit long/short, merger arbitrage and convertible securities

Fundamentally-driven investment processes

  • that are supplemented with sophisticated quantitative decision support and risk management tools

Multi-stage risk control process

  • developed through a pioneering approach to quantitative risk management. Risk metrics are tailored to each individual strategy

Innovation

  • an offering which seeks to evolve continuously with the ever changing global markets, aiming to provide attractive hedge fund opportunities
 

Our expertise

Agility

We are able to shift capital and risk dynamically across strategies to seek to exploit investment opportunity sets we see in the market for you.

Risk management, liquidity and capital preservation

We believe we offer you state-of-the-art risk management capabilities, born out of a strong risk-focused culture.

Diversity

Broad expertise across asset classes and capital markets, with investment professionals located across the globe in New York, Chicago, Stamford, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai.

 

Our investment approach

Diversified strategies

  • We combine our strategies with the goal of creating a diverse stream of returns relatively uncorrelated to major asset classes.
  • By shifting capital and risk dynamically across strategies we look to exploit investment opportunity sets that we see in the market.

Value investing with risk control

  • Our approach is, and always has been, rooted in relative value investing and state-of-the-art risk management capabilities, through which we strive to provide investors with attractive, risk-adjusted absolute return potential.

Collaboration across teams

  • We foster collaboration across our teams based in New York, Chicago, London, Hong Kong and Singapore, with the goal of raising our collective intelligence. We seek to strengthen those teams by recruiting and retaining the best people from inside the industry and out.
 

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