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Hedge Fund Sourcing for the Discerning Israeli and Swiss Investor

Encounter Capital is a prominent placement agent connecting Israeli and Swiss institutional investors and family offices with handpicked hedge funds that have displayed an obsessive focus on risk-management.

Encounter Capital

Yonni Cohen

Our Story

Led by Managing Director, Yonni Cohen, we focus on finding experienced and successful Hedge Fund managers who have set up their own Hedge Fund in the past several years. We have a strong preference for Credit and Relative Value Hedge Funds for a number of structural reasons. We do not look for Hedge Funds that try to outperform equities. We are seeking out these Funds as portfolio tools that complement, stabilise and add diversification to portfolios.

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Who we serve

Institutions and Family Offices in Israel and Switzerland seeking Hedge Funds that have built low volatility and low correlation track records. In Israel, the services and products offered are limited to qualified investors only, in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

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What we offer

Access to a small number of carefully selected hedge funds, chosen to complement and stabilise existing portfolios through credit and relative-value investment strategies

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How we work

Boutique, high-touch placement partners: we analyse, filter, and introduce only those managers who we believe, could be of interest to a wide range of Israeli and Swiss investors

Why Encounter

Tested through cycles

Our partners typically have more than a decade of audited performance, including during periods of market stress, and long-standing relationships with sophisticated investors.

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The Israeli Opportunity

Israeli pension, insurance and family-office capital represents a substantial and still under-allocated pool of capital for the right Hedge Funds. For investors and managers, this is a selective, relationship-driven opportunity rather than a mass-marketing exercise.

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The Swiss Opportunity

For the managers we represent, we also selectively work in Switzerland. Swiss institutional, private banking and family-office capital is among the most sophisticated and globally oriented in the world. Accessing it requires local credibility, discretion, and long-term relationship building rather than broad distribution.

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