Christian Stauffer is CEO and Founding Partner of Singapore based EuroFin Asia Group. He has more than 25 years experience in trade finance, structured finance, and commodities trading. Since 2006 he manages the LH Asian Trade Finance Fund, Asia’s first fund with an exclusive focus on trade finance, a sector that traditionally was the domain of banks and large trading companies.
The Fund aims at absolute return with low volatility and has never had a negative month. The Fund invests by making short-term, secured senior loans on a bilateral basis to participants in the commodity supply chain, predominantly trading companies and processors. The underlying goods being financed constituting the primary collateral to these loans. The Fund participates solely in structured transactions with legal and physical control over the goods.
In this Opalesque.TV BACKSTAGE video, hear from Christian:
* Trade Finance as asset class - benefits for investors
* How does Trade Finance work?
- Investment process
- A typical trade
- Trade goods are taken as collateral, fund controls all financial transactions
* How do recessions and volatile trade flows affect the strategy?
* Typical investors in a trade finance fund
* Rising interest rates: Trade Finance's best years are still ahead
* Capacity limits & future developments of trade finance as asset class
Before founding EFA Mr Stauffer was a Director of Noble Trade Finance Limited and Deputy Group Treasurer of Noble Group. Prior to this Mr Stauffer was Managing Director of FINCO Asia, the merchant-banking subsidiary of Andre Group, based in Singapore and Beijing where he was President of the Swiss-Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Stauffer has a Masters Degree in Engineering from the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
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Christian Stauffer is CEO and Founding Partner of Singapore based EuroFin Asia Group. He has more than 25 years experience in trade finance, structured finance, and commodities trading. Since 2006 he manages the LH Asian Trade Finance Fund, Asia’s first fund with an exclusive focus on trade finance, a sector that traditionally was the domain of banks and large trading companies.
The Fund aims at absolute return with low volatility and has never had a negative month. The Fund invests by making short-term, secured senior loans on a bil
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