HCIG Company ("HCIG") is the investment arm of a prominent Latin American family with controlling interests in industrial businesses recognized domestically and across international markets for their successful, sustained stewardship and world-class governance standards. Despite its roots that go back almost a century, the Family maintains a highly entrepreneurial orientation and actively pursues investment opportunities across sectors, especially those influenced by accelerated digitization.
As an asset owner, HCIG's investment philosophy follows an endowment-like approach of preserving and growing the Family's capital over multiple generations. Our long-term policy allows us to take on illiquidity risk in a portfolio that spans Equities, Fixed Income, Hedge Funds, Real Assets, and other Opportunistic investments. We actively invest in private assets, including direct company investments, leveraging our ability to identify attractive areas where the Family or the investment team have a competitive advantage, a highly informed point of view, or access to influential experts in specific domains.
The Family employs a dedicated investment team that allocates capital to external managers and internal opportunities to execute its objectives. Portfolio management incorporates assessing critical success factors, investment efficiency, risk management, a fiduciary mindset, a clear set of ethics, and ESG considerations. Investment professionals at the Family's investment office have tenured backgrounds in institutional asset management, consulting, risk management, portfolio construction, and M&A. The investment office follows a highly disciplined investment approach to actively managing its current portfolio and sourcing investment opportunities on a global basis.