Welcome to Mathews Capital Partners | Absolute Return Funds

Mathews Capital Partners Pty Limited (“Mathews Capital”), Australian Financial Services Licence 252748 was established by Philip Mathews in March 2001. Based in Sydney, Australia,  Mathews Capital manages funds on behalf of a variety of high net worth individuals, private companies, trusts, superannuation funds and selected institutional clients. A significant portion of the firm’s FuM is owned by staff and related entities.

With over two decades of investment markets experience, Philip Mathews, is widely regarded as one of Australia’s leading absolute return fund managers. See Masters of The Market, Secrets of Australia’s Leading Share Market Investors*.

Mathews Capital remains “index agnostic” with a focus on delivering absolute returns via a high conviction and disciplined investment approach that has produced strong out-performance over the medium to long term. Mathews Capital’s successful investment process is based on creative, detailed and original hands-on research with portfolios concentrated into the Manager’s best investment ideas. Funds are dynamically managed via long/short investment strategy investing principally in listed instruments including equities, futures and options.

Mathews Capital’s unlisted investment vehicles include:

  • Sabre Fund (inception April 2002)
  • Mathews Capital Global Opportunities Fund L.P. (inception January 2005)
  • Velocity Fund (inception July 2006)
  • Searchlight Asia Pacific Fund (inception September 2010)
  • Peak Energy and Global Resources Fund (inception February 2011)

Over the past decade Mathews Capital funds have won numerous industry awards including;

Mathews Capital Global Opportunities Fund L.P. – Best new ex-Japan Fund, AsiaHedge Awards. Sabre Fund – Best International Fund, AsiaHedge Awards and Best Single Strategy Directional Fund, Hedge Fund Rocks.

On a number of occasions since launch,  Bloomberg has ranked the Sabre Fund the best performing non-US equity strategy hedge fund world-wide.

The nucleus of the Mathews Capital senior management team including, Philip Mathews, Rod Hinchcliffe and Ben Henri have worked continuously together since 1999. The expansion of Mathews Capital over the past 12 months has seen the launch of the Searchlight Asia Pacific Fund and the Peak Energy and Global Resources Fund, as well as the re-opening of the Mathews Capital Global Opportunities Fund L.P. to offshore investors.

The group has experienced a steady increase in FuM over the past 12 months,  generated through both strong fund performance and increased new investor contributions across the funds.

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The firm’s aim over the past decade has been to independently develop our own investment thesis based on a rigorous, disciplined and detailed primary research effort.

We study selected thematics that lead us to focus on market sectors where we can research and develop valuable investment ideas for our clients.

At Mathews Capital Partners, we base our investment decisions on a fundamental value analysis and facts alone. We remain index agnostic, following a process that results in us concentrating most our client’s money into our very best investment ideas.

Our overriding objective is to maximise our client’s investment returns from the equity market over the medium to long-term.

Philip Mathews, Founder and Managing Director