- Who We Are
Inside Sunnov Investment
Sunnov Investment is an independent investment manager based in Singapore, working with institutional, mission‑driven and private capital. Founded in 2012, the firm focuses on listed markets and complementary strategies that can sit comfortably within broader portfolios and governance frameworks. This page explains how the organisation is set up, how decisions are made and the principles that shape our work with investors.
Origins & Direction
How Sunnov thinks about investing and its role
Sunnov Investment began as a specialist in listed equities, created for investors who wanted concentrated thinking rather than a catalogue of products. The starting point was to focus on areas where genuine research work can be done, understand how holdings behave together and be explicit about what risk is being taken and why. Additional capabilities in macro, derivatives and systematic techniques were added over time as tools to support this philosophy, not as separate franchises, so that different approaches could be combined within one coherent framework.
Many of the investors we work with have responsibilities and exposures across borders, which means regulation, custody, tax and market structure all matter to how portfolios are built and maintained. Currency, liquidity windows and local trading conventions are treated as part of the investment problem, not back‑office detail. The firm does not aim to comment on every market move; instead, the emphasis is on careful observation, incremental learning and measured change, with decisions documented and communicated so clients can see how portfolios evolve through different conditions.
A compact team built around collaboration and clarity
Sunnov Investment is structured to be small enough for people to work closely and broad enough to bring different disciplines into the same room. Portfolio management, research, trading, risk, operations and client service are in regular contact, sharing information rather than passing files along a chain. This reduces the distance between an investment idea, its practical implementation and the way it ultimately appears in a client report, and helps keep accountability clear when conditions change.
The culture encourages preparation, calm discussion and written records. Team members are expected to explain their reasoning, challenge one another constructively and document decisions before they are put into effect, and client meetings follow the same pattern with materials circulated in advance and outcomes recorded afterwards. Within this framework, governance standards, stewardship responsibilities and material sustainability issues are assessed as part of business resilience and risk, not as separate marketing themes, so that any engagement or voting activity is grounded in the same measured, evidence‑based process as other investment actions.
What experience at Sunnov means in day‑to‑day work
01. Research depth, focus and discipline
Research work is organised around a clear set of questions: what does this company or theme really do, how does it make money, where are the pressure points, and how might it behave when conditions change? Analysts combine company meetings, industry data, valuation work and selected quantitative tools, with explicit criteria for when a position can be considered and how it should be sized. Notes are written in plain language so that ideas remain understandable months or years later.
02. Risk framework, limits and oversight
Risk is approached as a pattern of exposures rather than a single number. The team looks at concentrations by issuer, sector, theme, factor and currency, and at liquidity and scenario behaviour. Portfolios are run within agreed ranges that reflect each client’s tolerance for drawdown, tracking error or capital loss. Independent oversight ensures that exceptions are identified and discussed, and that changes to limits are documented rather than made informally.
03. Client dialogue, reports and review
Dialogue with clients follows their own decision cycles. For some, that means scheduled committee meetings with board papers; for others, it may be a regular call with a family office or adviser. Reports are designed to show how the portfolio relates to objectives, risk guidelines and any ethical or policy constraints that have been agreed. Review discussions cover what has changed, what has been learned and where the portfolio might need adjustment, rather than rehearsing short‑term performance alone.
