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Clark Nicholls is listed as CIO and Portfolio Manager | Long Short Credit Strategies | Absolute Return | Relative Value | Opportunistic and Special Situations | European Leverage Finance at Aucit Investment Management, based in London, England, United Kingdom. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at axa-im.com, phone signal with area code 203, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Clark Nicholls.
Clark Nicholls previously worked as CIO and Founder at Aucit Investment Management and Senior Portfolio Manager / Analyst at Axa Investment Managers. Clark Nicholls holds Master Of Business Administration (Mba With Finance Concentration), Finance And Financial Management Services from Agsm @ Unsw Business School.
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Outstanding reputation and track record of strong investment performance and research insight. Develop views from fundamental and relative value analysis at industry, company and security level. Build ideosyncratic alpha focused positions assessing market technicals whilst keeping a sharp view of near-term price catalysts, as well as minimising systemic and principal risk..• Institutional Investor ranked 1st in equities then leveraged finance in research 3 times, at Credit Suisse • Profit ranged £150m-£200m on £500m risk when co-managed long short internal CDS fund at Lloyds • Headed Special Situations desk research with +20% pa index returns over 4 years at Societe Generale• Improved Short Duration special sits fund performance to average 2.4x Sharpe ratio over 5 years, grew from €750m to +€4b at Axa Investment Managers, writing seminal thought leadership research.Deep sector knowledge across consumer, retail, leisure, services, TMT, autos and financial services.Founded, executive committee and board member of ELFA, the European Leverage Finance Association, board member for The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) High Yield division.
Listed skills include High Yield, Portfolio Management, Capital Markets, Bonds, and 26 others.
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• Fund targets: alpha 6% above risk-free rate, returns above 10%, Sharpe 3x, maximum drawdown 7%• Long / short credit, zero duration times spread (DTS) market neutral, opportunistic but low volatility• Employing strategies developed from both sell side and buy side capitalizing on richest alpha opportunities. Current strategy is a unique and innovative combination of ‘best yield per unit of risk’ and zero duration times spread (DTS) hedge
Puteaux, Fr
• Near-term special situations and deep fundamental strategies achieved significantly above market returns whilst limiting both single position principal loss and systemic risk.• Chaired Axa high yield investment committee, key risk taker from a regulatory perspective for 7 years.• Dynamic fund +9% CAGR since 2016 receiving 2022 HY Fund of the Year by Investment Week.• Short Duration Credit fund Sharpe averaged 2.4x over 5 years, grew AUM 5.3x to +€4b.
• Headed a team of 6 senior and 4 junior analysts ensuring research rigour and thoughtful investment insight whilst maintaining coverage across the Consumer and TMT sectors for bonds, cds and loans.• Responsible for building the UK and US businesses, subscription, and ratings revenues; grew 30%.
Paris, Fr
• High Yield booked returns were +20% across ~€500m bonds / cds single name longs and shorts.
London, Uk, Gb
• Co-manager of €500m long short CDS fund, achieved €150m then €170m profits or +25% returns after trading costs
Zurich, Ch
• Equity Research in Australia, ranked 1st in 2003 and 2004 by Greenwich.• High Yield Research in Europe ranked 2nd in 2005 and in 2006 1st by Institutional Investor.• Promoted to Financial Sponsor team, awarded the 2007 European Bond Deal of the Year by Financial News and received the 2007 Credit Suisse Innovation Award, leading execution on deal team.
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Clark Nicholls works for Aucit Investment Management.
Clark Nicholls is listed as CIO and Portfolio Manager | Long Short Credit Strategies | Absolute Return | Relative Value | Opportunistic and Special Situations | European Leverage Finance at Aucit Investment Management.
AeroLeads has found 1 work email signal at @axa-im.com for Clark Nicholls at Aucit Investment Management.
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Clark Nicholls is based in London, England, United Kingdom while working with Aucit Investment Management.
Clark Nicholls has worked for Aucit Investment Management, Axa Investment Managers, Spread Research, Société Générale Corporate And Investment Banking, and Lloyds Banking Group.
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Clark Nicholls holds Master Of Business Administration (Mba With Finance Concentration), Finance And Financial Management Services from Agsm @ Unsw Business School.
Clark Nicholls is listed with skills including High Yield, Portfolio Management, Capital Markets, Bonds, Fixed Income, Investments, Structured Products, and Trading.
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