The key objective of Dalma Capital is to deliver excellence through research and constant refinement. We believe that delivering excellence to our clients requires us to always seek to exceed their...view moreThe key objective of Dalma Capital is to deliver excellence through research and constant refinement. We believe that delivering excellence to our clients requires us to always seek to exceed their expectations and improve the way we serve them. Our goal to constantly improve ourselves is achieved through innovation, understanding that past mistakes are valuable lessons and the belief that contrarian thinking should be constructive.
Evidence of our demand for excellence can be seen from the history of the company. Founded in 2011 in the USA, Dalma Capital launched its core investment fund (now known as the Dalma Unified Return Fund) in August 2012 after conducting four years of university backed research focused on the post-crisis market along with forty-seven years of model backtesting.
The goal of this exercise was to identify which investment models, techniques and approaches would continue to generate alpha in this new market and why. We set out to identify a new and innovative approach with foundations in classical fundamental investment theory that has demonstrated efficacy since the days of Bejamin Graham and Sir John Templeton. Upon these foundations, we engineered a modern quantitative, computational and technical investment model to endure decades to come.
Although the founding members were confident in the robustness of this product when launched in 2012, they chose not to make the fund available to outside investors until the fund and the company were sufficiently refined, enhanced and proven in practice. For the twenty-two subsequent months, the fund was managed with the proprietary assets of its founding members as they continued to refine and optimize the models, methodologies, risk management systems and technologies needed to truly deliver excellence.
After six years in the making, the Dalma Unified Return Fund is ready to be offered to outside investors for the first time on July 1st, 2014. Dalma Capital has developed a globally regulated platform with presence in and allocation options through four of the worlds leading financial centers: the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) - UAE; Malta - EU; Delaware - USA and Cayman Islands. The management company is regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) and the State of North Carolina while the master fund is regulated by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA).
Dalma Capital has brought together a team with over eight decades of combined financial services industry experience. We believe that the company and its Unified Return Fund represent the next generation of hedge funds, whereby the combination of applied fundamental, quantitative and technical analysis bring together a triple-layered, risk averse investment process.
We are confident that early investors will become long-term clients as we exceed their expectations. We believe that clients will identify with Dalma Capital as their partners - each member of the team is coinvested with the client and is directly incentivized to share in their successes. Despite our view that clients will remain with us for the long-term, we choose to offer to our clients maximum liquidity - with one calendar month redemption, no lockups, no subscription fees and no redemption penalties.
The Dalma team is headquartered and operates in the DIFC but the company has representatives in the EU, US and UK.view less