Krino Capital
Investment Services in Cape Town

Maven Capital (Pty) Ltd is an Authorised Financial Services Provider. Maven Capital Advisors is an independent investment management firm based on the multi-family office model that provides wealthy individuals and small institutions with global advisory or discretionary management services.

Provide a family office service on an outsourced basis, which gives wealthy families a centralised point to access broad investment expertise and consolidated analysis for good decision-making. Our working relationship is flexible in design but consistent in operation through customised service models and mandates giving our clients’ the required professionalism, objectivity and value for money. Manage investment portfolios according to our clients’ needs based on advisory or discretionary arrangements. Design and build separately identifiable and trackable investment solutions that meet each of our clients’ financial objectives. Our planning and investment approach focusses primarily on required return over allowable investment horizons to meet our clients’ objectives. Risk profiling is considered a secondary step in our planning process. Successful businesses have long term strategies with measurable outcomes. At Krino Capital we apply the same business rigour to wealth management as one would apply to running a business. Too much of investing is based on behaviour risk profiling or risk portfolios to the detriment of achieving well-considered, real objectives. Therefore to make the ultimate investment choices, we need to ask the right questions of the client at the beginning of the planning process. Long term strategic planning is where we spend a significant amount of time. To give our clients the best possible return, we need to understand what are their intended utilities of their wealth, how much time we have (time horizon) and how much uncertainty can we can take (risk budget). Once we have these parameters, we can make the optimal and appropriate investments. We attempt to avoid idealogical leanings and benchmarking by applying pragmatic and prudent capital allocation using a disciplined framework and process. valuation (relative and absolute yields comparable across countries, sectors and asset classes) liquidity (market positioning, money supply, credit growth and fund flows) The intersection of these three factors is where we assemble our highest conviction in investments which will fit our clients’ time horizon and risk budget constraints. Christopher Augoustatos, CA(SA) has more than 13 years of international investment experience and a total of 18 years working in the financial services industry. Having worked for global financial service firms and investments banks in major cities of London, New York, Houston and Boston, Christopher brings invaluable global perspective to his clients wherever they are based in the world. With a wealth of corporate experience behind him, Christopher set out independently to build an outsourced investment office for several families based on first principles. The Krino Capital Insights Letter is published periodically.