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HSZ Group
HSZ Group is an independent investment management company. It is based in Hong Kong and regulated by the SFC. Highly specialized, the group focuses on listed Chinese equities and ILS investments.

Both asset classes are relatively removed from the growing risks associated with the rampant money creation by western central banks. This increases their value as diversifiers in any investment portfolio.

HSZ Group is a trusted provider of excellent investment products. It is a partner-led group and manage a well-defined range of investment products. All its portfolios embody the values adopted by HSZ Group with its focus on quality and selective approach to investment. The business was established in 1994 in Zurich and is now managed from Hong Kong, where it has been present since 1999. Its target clients are family offices, pension funds, banks and fund-of-funds.

History
1994

At Guyerzeller Bank, a Zurich based Swiss private bank which is now part of HSBC, HSZ Group identified Asia outside Japan as the focus of our investment activities. It started managing a number of large equity portfolios under the theme, quality bridge to Asia.

1999

HSZ Group launched Asia Investment Corporation (AIC) and opened our Hong Kong office.

2000 HSZ Group established HSZ Group in a management buyout from HSBC Guyerzeller Bank.

2003 HSZ Group launched China Investment Corporation (CIC) at a time when an increasing number of privately controlled Chinese corporations opened up to institutional investors.

2005 HSZ Group launched Asia Opportunity Fund (AOF), a long-short equity hedge fund.

2006 Hansrudolf Schmid, Partner and Chairman, moved from Zurich to Hong Kong. HSZ Group upgraded the legal structure of CIC by converting it into HSZ China Fund, a Swiss investment fund.

2007 Ahead of the world financial crisis, HSZ Group decided to liquidate AIC and AOF each producing considerable gains for many investors.

2008 From 2008 onwards the focus of HSZ Group was entirely on HSZ China Fund. China was the economic locomotive of Asia, if not the entire world. Its policy of “controlled release” was key to China’s progress and the basis of its strategy to focus on privately controlled companies in the universe of listed Chinese companies.

2012 With the arrival of Stefan Kräuchi, Partner and CEO, HSZ Group added a business unit under the name ILS Advisers. It is dedicated to the development of the ILS (insurance-linked securities) niche asset class. Like its Chinese equities, ILS offers investment opportunities which are relatively removed from the growing risks associated with the rampant money creation by western central banks.

2014 HSZ Group launched ILS Diversified Ltd., a fund of fund providing access to a selection of specialist ILS funds in a fully diversified way.