Swaen Capital

Swaen Capital

Swaen Capital was founded in 2011 by Cliff Go, a Dutch national whose birth name, Go Swan Liong, inspired the firm's name. The Singapore-based independent fund manager operates under CMS licence number 100212-2. It serves exclusively accredited investors, with a focus on client relationships, financial planning, advisory, and discretionary portfolio management across a platform of third-party custodians and investment managers. The firm deploys an open-architecture model across asset classes including equities, fixed income, and alternative investments. It has built strategic alliances with other independent firms to extend offerings into global hedge fund research, corporate finance, and fund structuring and administration. The custodian panel includes Bank of Singapore, Bank Julius Baer, Deutsche Bank, DBS, and Pershing LLC (a subsidiary of BNY Mellon). On the investment manager side, it accesses global firms such as BlackRock, Templeton, PIMCO, MFS, and BlackOak, alongside what it describes as strong regional managers to capture regional opportunities. The management team collectively claims more than 100 years of experience, much of it working together over the past two decades at prior organisations. The firm's address is at The Central on Eu Tong Sen Street, Singapore. It also highlights a proprietary advisory framework called the "10 F's" as part of a systematic wealth management planning process. The firm’s structure as an independent, non-bank-aligned manager in a market dominated by private banks is its core differentiator. It pitches alignment of interests as central, arguing that freedom from a single institution's product shelf lets it select opportunities on investment merit and suitability. There is no publicly disclosed succession plan or separate philanthropic vehicle.