Fourpoints Investment Managers

Fourpoints is authorized and regulated by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), the French financial markets regulator, as a société de gestion de portefeuille (portfolio management company). This means the firm operates under the full scope of European UCITS and AIFM directives, which impose capital adequacy, risk management, and reporting standards. The AMF registration is a matter of public record in France.

The firm specializes in absolute return and alternative strategies, including long/short equity, event-driven, and global macro mandates. Portfolios are constructed with a focus on capital preservation and low correlation to equity and bond benchmarks. Fourpoints has historically offered both UCITS-compliant funds and AIFMD-structured vehicles to accommodate different investor requirements, per the firm's regulatory filings.

Fourpoints serves institutional investors, with a particular emphasis on European pension funds, insurance companies, and family offices. The regulated structure appeals to institutions that face governance constraints around investing in unregulated hedge fund vehicles. The firm competes for allocations as a specialist absolute return manager rather than a broad-based asset gatherer.

Fourpoints chose to operate as a fully regulated French asset management company rather than as an offshore fund. This means it is subject to AMF oversight, European securities law, and — where applicable — UCITS liquidity and diversification rules. For allocators, this provides daily or weekly valuation, independent custody, and a regulatory backstop that offshore Cayman or Delaware LP structures do not provide.

Yes, Fourpoints has managed UCITS-compliant funds that deploy alternative strategies such as equity market-neutral and global macro. Bringing these strategies into a UCITS wrapper imposes strict liquidity and diversification limits that the investment team must navigate — a constraint that shapes position sizing and instrument selection across the portfolio.