November 28, 2018
UFG Private Equity announces that its Fund III has completed acquisition of a large minority stake in Russian Towers from its co-investor Macquarie Russia & CIS Infrastructure Fund (MRIF). Amount and terms of transaction are not disclosed. Russian Towers is the leader of independent telecom infrastructure market in Russia, it owns and operates passive infrastructure and provides co-location solutions for mobile operators.
UFG Special Situations Fund — our hybrid investment strategy of investing across both Russian high-liquid public equities and bonds, as well as private debt and private equity — was named the Best Multi-Asset Russia/CIS Fund at the 2018 Russian Hedge Fund Industry Awards.
UFG Special Situations Fund tailors its investment strategy to the changing market dynamics. Thus, in periods of market growth our managers shift their focus to rapidly growing equities.
SPEAR’S Russia magazine has published its ratings of the best Russia-dedicate hedge funds based on the rate of return for the 12 months in 2016. UFG Russia Select Fund, with an impressive rate of return of +50.2% per annum, was listed among the top ten Funds.
The SPEAR’S Russia rating was based on the reported data on Bloomberg. The rating parameters comprise profits following the results of 2016, the Sharpe ratio (a parameter showing investment strategy efficiency through volatility of the rate of return), and portfolio volatility. The rating also reflects historic returns and the volatility of funds.
