Axel Schuster

Capital Bank is an active manager which performs in-house fundamental research to identify and assess leveraged finance investment risks and opportunities. The firm seeks credit-oriented value opportunities especially in the leveraged finance, distressed, CDO and debt-oriented private capital spaces, often in smaller issues and complex or seasoned structured credit. They do not have a special geographic focus, although most of the transactions they analyze are domiciled in the US and Europe.

AI is an active, benchmark-insensitive, growth-oriented investment manager. The firm manages portfolios invested with a long-term outlook in equity, fixed-income and money-market instruments. AI's strong focus on growth investments has led the firm to an equally strong focus on emerging markets. AI's investment process begins with fundamental global macroeconomic research, this allocation process is ongoing and portfolio composition is reviewed on a daily basis. AI generates investment ideas following both bottom-up and top-down approaches and decisions are based on fundamental and technical research. The firm's fund managers meet regularly to determine investment strategies and take investment decisions as a team.

Provides private and corporate banking services