Spartan is pleased to announce the launch of the Teraz Fund |
Date: Thursday, November 22, 2012
Author: News Release
Toronto, Ontario – October 3, 2012 – Spartan Fund Management Inc. is pleased to
announce the launch of the Teraz Fund. Teraz' objective is to provide investors with
long term capital growth by investing in a diversified portfolio of Canadian smalland
micro-cap companies.
The Fund invests utilizing 3 strategies: long positions in early stage companies run
by successful entrepreneurs, including start-ups, listed cash-rich shells and merger
and acquisition candidates; opportunistic investing, including deep value, arbitrage,
theme investing and technical trading; and short positions in companies with
suspected fraud, questionable management and over-promotion. Individual
positions are limited to 5% of the Fund, based on cost. No investments are made in
private companies and no leverage is used.
Teraz' Chief Analyst & Strategist is Mark Zaret. Since 2003 Mr. Zaret has been the
principal of Teraz Holdings Inc., a private investment company that trades equities
(long and short), options, currencies, futures, provides equity to start-ups and offers
financial consulting services to corporations. Mr. Zaret has traded successfully for
over 20 years, having achieved a long term growth rate of over 20% annualized. He
has developed his own proprietary databases and comprehensive approach to
investing. Mark is a graduate of The University of Western Ontario and York
University.
More information about the Teraz Fund, including monthly reports, can be found on
Spartan’s web site: www.spartanfunds.ca
Spartan Fund Management Inc. is a Toronto-based private wealth management
firm advising a number of private funds on behalf of high net worth and institutional
clients. Spartan aims to attract the most talented investment managers and analysts
from a variety of backgrounds - typically institutional money managers or proprietary
bank traders - that have proven expertise within a well defined investment strategy.
Spartan provides the operational and risk management infrastructure that enables our
investment professionals to focus on what they do best: optimize the balance between
risk and reward for clients. To find out more, please visit www.spartanfunds.ca.
Contact:
Gary Ostoich
gostoich@spartanfunds.ca
100 Wellington Street West, Suite 2101
Toronto, Ontario M5K 1J3
T: (416)601-3171