Renzo Cantoni
The author, Renzo Cantoni was born and raised in Lausanne Switzerland where he joined the financial industry in 1984 doing an apprenticeship at Swiss Bank Corporation (Now UBS). His 19 years at SBC/UBS gave him the opportunity to work in trading, asset, portfolio and wealth management in different locations such as Miami, Cayman Islands and Brazil where he presently lives.
In 2004, he co-founded Nexo Capital Gestão de Recursos which foresaw the 2008-2009 crisis. Nexo Capital which managed a Macro Hedge Fund seeking absolute returns. The fund was closed in August 2008 since being right was not a guarantee of survival. Mapping the off-balance sheet risks of the financial industry was just too much of a gamble. In 2009, he joined Queluz Asset Management with the responsibility to develop the international activities of the firm and since 2014 he has been involved in private equity and business development activities with AEM Capital.
Since 2003, he has been providing ad hoc advisory investment services to clients and his constant curiosity about how the world works and how financial markets behave have led him to develop an idiosyncratic investment approach for absolute return. It is a Macro Investment Strategy which mainly uses ETFs. It has been designed for individual investors who seek asset allocation flexibility, peformance and opportunistic wealth preservation.