K2 Asset Management (ASX:KAM) Head of Australian Equities David Poppenbeek said: "We’re an equity fund manager. We started life back in 1999 and we decided to build a business that we thought could invest in the best asset class, being equities, with a slightly different philosophy.
Our philosophy is about participating in equity markets when they’re going up. But more importantly preserving equity, or preserving capital, when equity markets are going to fall.
What we are is a variable beta fund. That means that we have the empowerment to make decisions on behalf of our clients. And we’ve been doing that quite successfully for 16 years now.
We currently are owned predominantly by staff, by the directors and by related interests who own about 80 percent of the company. And K2 Asset Management is listed on the ASX..."
