Curtis Cifuentes
Multi-award-winning Australian boutique fund manager, Avenir Capital has strengthened its global investment team with the appointment of experienced analyst, Curtis Cifuentes, as Investment Director.
Mr Cifuentes joins Avenir from Platinum Asset Management, where he spent 15 years as an investment analyst, covering Japan and technology sectors. While at Platinum, Mr Cifuentes independently managed a $25 million Japan Fund sub-portfolio. Prior to that, he spent three years at Compass Partners (now Symphony Financial Partners), a private equity firm in Tokyo. He studied economics at Hitotsubashi University and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and is fluent in Japanese.
Mr Cifuentes is Avenir Capital’s second new hire in four months following the appointment of investment associate, Patricia Queipo de Llano Campomanes in September.
Avenir Capital’s managing director and chief investment officer Adrian Warner said he was looking forward to Mr Cifuentes playing a central role in the next phase of Avenir’s growth story.
“Curtis’ wealth of investment experience in Australia and Japan is a welcome addition to the Avenir team as we continue to seek global opportunities for our concentrated portfolio and build on our seven-year record of high performance,” he said.
Avenir Capital aims to build a high-conviction, absolute return portfolio of undervalued equity securities sourced from Australia and globally. In the five years to 31 January 2018, the Avenir Global Fund has returned more than 16.6% per annum.
