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Portfolio Management

Bespoke, concentrated portfolios built around your time horizon, risk appetite and liquidity needs.

Philosophy

Concentrated on purpose.

Katniss-managed portfolios typically hold 8-15 positions. That's fewer than most wealth managers and deliberately so: depth beats breadth when capital is committed to asymmetric, illiquid opportunities.

Each holding is underwritten with a written thesis, an expected catalyst and a pre-defined exit plan. There are no positions we can't explain in a paragraph.

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Typical positions
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Management fee
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Performance fee
Few, meaningful.

Concentration vs diffusion

Typical manager (50+ names)
Thin conviction. Average outcome. Benchmark-hugging by default.
Katniss (8-15 names)
Deep conviction. Each position has to earn its slot.
Our process

How a mandate gets built.

Before the first position goes on, we and the client agree on objectives, boundaries and cadence. That document becomes the scorecard.

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Objectives

Return target, time horizon, liquidity needs, currency exposure and downside tolerance written down and agreed.

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Boundaries

Sector, single-name and asset-class caps. Exclusions. Leverage policy. The no-go list is as important as the go list.

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Construction

Initial positions sized against the mandate, each backed by a written thesis and pre-agreed with the client.

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Monitoring

Ongoing review of each thesis against actual developments. Quarterly written reporting to clients.

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Review

Annual mandate review — rebalance, refresh, or rewrite the framework based on lived experience.

Illustrative

What a sample mandate looks like.

This is an illustrative allocation for a balanced private-client mandate — not a recommendation, not a portfolio we currently run, not a promise of any particular outcome. Real mandates are shaped around your objectives, not a house template.

Cash weight typically flexes upward in stretched markets, downward when specific opportunities emerge.

Illustrative mix only. Actual allocations vary by client and mandate. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
SAMPLE MANDATE 8-15 names
PE & Pre-IPO
40%
Special Situations
25%
Public equities
20%
Cash / short duration
15%
Reporting

What you see, and when.

Concentrated mandates require proportionate transparency. We over-communicate by design.

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Quarterly
Written report

Position-level commentary, thesis check-ins, performance attribution, outlook.

M
Monthly
NAV snapshot

Marked valuations, cash balance and any material events since the last report.

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Ad hoc
Event-driven notes

Catalyst plays, filings, funding rounds or anything thesis-relevant — shared the same day.

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Annual
Mandate review

Full review of the framework, performance, fees and whether the mandate still fits your objectives.

Ready to discuss a private-client mandate?

Short enquiry, no obligation. Our team reviews every submission and arranges a private conversation before anything moves forward.