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MCH IS promotes its business plan and announces a change of name to AMCHOR IS

  • The management company, with more than 14 years’ experience and around €5 billion under management or represented, changes its name to AMCHOR Investment Strategies
  • MCH IS is now AMCHOR IS and manages diversified strategies in private markets, covering real assets, risk capital, private debt or venture capital in collaboration with some of the most prestigious global specialists such as JP Morgan, Alpinvest or Apollo.
  • As part of its independent product specialist activity, it currently exclusively represents eight management firms specialising in UCITS: Brown Advisory, Eleva Capital, Mirae Asset, East Capital, CQS, Shenkman Capital, Ruffer Llp and Fulcrum Asset Management, as well as management firms specialising in alternatives

 

Madrid, 27 July 2022.– AMCHOR IS, a company dedicated to managing or representing investment strategies through talented specialist managers, announces its name change while also promoting its business plan. The entity expects to continue with its international expansion by opening an office in Italy and developing new strategies.

In line with the same philosophy it has maintained over the last 14 years, AMCHOR IS will continue to offer high value-added investment solutions to institutional investors that combine strategies adapted to current circumstances, with specialist managers who have proven their ability to generate long-term added value and efficient vehicles.

Firm commitment to specialised investment solutions

The management company is starting its activity in private markets with MCH Global Buyout Strategies I, a private capital programme advised by Alpinvest, which invests in primary and secondary funds and co-investments. This programme was continued last year with the closure of Global Buyout Strategies II.

Anther significant milestone was the sealing of a partnership with JP Morgan AM in 2020 for the management of real asset strategies and offering investment opportunities to investors aimed at providing stable, predictable income in real assets (property, transport and infrastructure) in Spain and Portugal. The first product resulting from this agreement, the MCH Global Real Asset Strategies fund, closed in just four months, overcoming initial expectations and the second version of this programme is expected to be closed in July this year.

AMCHOR IS also manages semi-liquid credit strategies along with Apollo and has recently launched decarbonisation strategies.

As a result of the company’s focus from the outset on generating high value-added solutions for its investors, AMCHOR IS manages or represents around €5 billion. In the independent product specialist area, eight management firms with UCITS funds have been selected for exclusive representation: Brown Advisory; Eleva Capital; Mirae Asset; East Capital; Ferox Capital, Shenkman Capital, Ruffer LLP and Fulcrum AM.

The founding partners of AMCHOR IS, Tasio del Castaño and Alejandro Sarrate, have reaffirmed that “with the change of name we want to highlight one of our founding objectives, to act as an anchor, combining strengths to bring balance to the equation, as well as retaining a nod to our previous phase as MCH IS. We will continue to focus on constantly finding the right balance between strategy, manager and vehicle. We hope that this process will lead us to offering attractive yields for our investors, and therefore continue to promote our national and international growth.”

 

About AMCHOR IS

AMCHOR IS SGIIC is an Undertaking for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities, specialising in managing or representing traditional and alternative asset strategies from prestigious global specialists and with efficient vehicles in Spain, Portugal and Italy. The company, with around €5 billion of assets under management or represented, exclusively represents eight UCITS managers and manages different alternative vehicles with some of the best risk capital, private debt and real asset specialists. The company was founded in 2008 by Alejandro Sarrate and Tasio del Castaño.