Overview
Tycho Athos Event Driven Fund is an equity biased, event driven fund with a primary focus on short dated and liquid hard catalyst events in the Asia Pacific region and beyond. Athos Capital Limited was founded by Matthew Moskey and Fred Schulte Hillen, two seasoned event driven investors.
Strategy & Manager
Fund Strategy
Tycho Athos Event Driven Fund is an equity biased, event driven fund with a primary focus on short dated and liquid hard catalyst events in the Asia Pacific region, with the ability to invest a portion of the portfolio in global and softer catalyst event opportunities.
The founders have built up years of experience in the event driven space at both large multi national asset managers and Asian focused funds, and are industry veterans with M&A banking, special situations trading, and regional transactional, legal and operational skill sets.
The team’s core belief is that a unique, low volatility, and uncorrelated income stream can be extracted from Asian hard catalyst event situations, and that their strategy of nimble trading, individual trade structuring, and dynamic portfolio construction is ideally suited to crystalize superior returns from that opportunity set.
Investment Manager
The Athos Capital partnership combines individuals with broad and complementary event driven experience across M&A banking, special situations trading, as well as M&A legal and Asian operations. Since launch the team has consistently been nominated for industry awards, including for the HFM Best Long Term Event Driven Performance and Best Event Driven Manager awards, as well as the Eurekahedge Best Asian Event Driven Awards, with wins in 2014, 2015, 2018, and 2019.
Key Persons
Matthew Moskey - Principal and CIO
Matthew is a veteran portfolio manager in the Asian event driven space. Prior to co-founding Athos Capital in 2011 he was the portfolio manager for Tiresias Capital’s Omni Asia Fund, after being a portfolio manager for Centaurus Capital, where he opened the Hong Kong office and consistently generated superior returns for a dedicated Asia fund. He has in the past been responsible for event portfolios in excess of US$1 billion. Matthew’s background is as an M&A banker with Dresdner Kleinwort, where his core focus was around natural resources. His combination of fundamental M&A banking skills, strong network of contracts with corporates and bankers throughout the Asia Pacific region, and strong portfolio management experience form the basis of our portfolio construction process. Coupled with a superior and demonstrated risk management approach, Matthew has in the past produced superior returns while aggressively limiting downside during periods of market dislocation.
Fred Schulte-Hillen - Principal and Portfolio Manager
Fred has been overseeing portfolio management, risk analysis, and business building functions for event driven strategies since 2006 and is a veteran event driven and special situations portfolio manager in the Asia-Pacific context. Prior to co-founding Athos Capital in 2011 he oversaw the legal analysis, execution and trade structuring functions for an Asian event driven portfolio of over US$1 billion at Polygon Investment Partners, and then in the context of Black’s Link Capital, an Asian event driven manager he co-founded in 2009. Prior to working for hedge funds he was an M&A lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell, running complex cross-boarder deals throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Fred’s focus is on portfolio management of core conviction hard catalyst event and special situations opportunities, as well as on the institutional quality of our business and risk management process.
Performance
Class Performance
Commentary
Investment Manager’s Commentary – August 2026
August continued to deliver positive catalysts and strong performance across several core relative value and event trades, with minor offsetting performance in the ECM and A/H strategies. Importantly for our core merger arbitrage strategy, the month saw a very high rate of newly announced transactions, particularly on the larger side of the acquisition spectrum, with multiple multi-billion dollar deals announced in Hong Kong, Australia and Japan.
Performance primarily came from a Hong Kong-listed position, which saw another dividend materialize during the month, as well as a landmark Taiwan GDR offering in which the Fund participated. Incremental performance came from M&A and holding company strategies. Performance was partly offset by a position that underperformed after announcing an acquisition as well as an A/H position that did not see a buyback on the A Share commence after receiving shareholder’s approval.
Given the influx of new M&A deal announcements during the month, the Fund initiated several new positions at attractive spreads, as well as smaller short positions in earlier stage deals in Australia. As we have a significantly broader M&A pipeline heading into the year-end, as well as an active ECM pipeline and several larger share class arbitrage positions in the portfolio currently, we believe we are well-positioned into the fourth quarter of the year.
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Contact
Registered Office of the ICAV:
35 Shelbourne Road
4th Floor
Ballsbridge, Dublin
D04 A4E0
Ireland
Dealing Contact:
Tycho ICAV
Attention: TA Department
c/o Société Générale Securities Services
SGSS (Ireland) Limited
3rd Floor, IFSC House
IFSC
Dublin 1, Ireland
T: 00353 1 6750 300
F: 00353 1 6750 351
E: [email protected]
Tycho Contact
Georg Reutter
Partner
T: +44(0)20 3384 8794
E: [email protected]
JJ Jardine-Paterson
Head of Investment Solutions
T: +44 (0)20 3598 6445
E: [email protected]
