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Central Park Group announces new portfolio manager for registered multi-strategy event-driven fund

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Brencourt Advisors has assumed portfolio management responsibility for Central Park Group Multi-Event Fund, a multi-strategy event-driven fund. The Fund invests in credit opportunities, merger arbitrage and equity special situations. It invests in a portfolio of "events" allocated across companies, sectors and strategies.

Central Park Group Multi-Event Fund is advised by Central Park Multi-Event Management, a joint venture between Central Park Advisers and Brencourt. Founded in January 2001 by William Collins, Brencourt has a 10-year record of attractive risk-adjusted returns.

Collins, the Fund’s Portfolio Manager, has over 20 years of experience managing event-driven investments. Prior to founding Brencourt, Collins was a Senior Managing Director at ING Furman Selz Asset Management where he managed the firm’s capital in event-driven strategies, as well as over USD1 billion in client assets. He served on its Board from 1989 until its acquisition by ING Group in 1997.

"Brencourt brings specialized expertise in event investing to Central Park Group Multi-Event Fund," says Greg Brousseau, Co-CEO, Co-CIO, Central Park Group. "We are impressed with Brencourt’s 10-year record of attractive returns, their approach to the asset class and their research, trading and risk management capabilities."

"We have been following Brencourt for some time and are pleased to make their strategy available to high net worth investors in a user friendly structure," says Mitchell Tanzman, Co-CEO, Co-CIO, Central Park Group. "Central Park Group Multi-Event Fund provides a 1099, quarterly liquidity and a $50,000 investment minimum."

"Central Park Group Multi-Event Fund represents an opportunity for Brencourt to make its strategy available to a broader universe(3)," says Collins, CEO of Brencourt and Portfolio Manager of Central Park Group Multi-Event Fund. "Brencourt professionals bring decades of event-driven investment experience and lessons learned from 35 years of market cycles to the Fund."

The Fund’s objective is to achieve capital appreciation while seeking to moderate risk and reduce volatility by pursuing a variety of investment strategies.

 

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