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The Firm

Built to movecapital, not todefend a sector.

IGUAKO Capital is a private financial institution founded to source advantage in rare markets and compound it in conventional ones.

Origins

The firm was formed around a disagreement with how specialist capital usually behaves.

Its founders had spent their careers in markets that were difficult to enter and, once entered, unusually profitable: pharmaceuticals, biological and animal-derived industries, and adjacent regulated sectors. The recurring observation was that firms operating there almost never left. Capital earned in a specialist market was reinvested in the same specialist market, long after the returns had compressed.

IGUAKO was built to do the opposite. Origination stays in the rare markets. Deployment goes wherever the arithmetic is strongest. The founding partnership spans Australia and Florida, with the institution itself established in the Caribbean.

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Presence

Three anchors.

Domicile, origination and coverage are deliberately held in different places.

Principal domicile

Caribbean

The institution is established and administered in the Caribbean, which is the base for the balance sheet and for group governance.

Founding partnership

Australia

Part of the founding partnership is Australian, and the firm retains origination and operating relationships across the region.

Founding partnership

Florida

The remainder of the founding partnership is Floridian, anchoring the firm's North American transaction and client coverage.

Worldwide

Eight regions, thirty-six cities.

From the three anchors the institution has grown into a network run from a hub in each region.

George Town

Caribbean

The Caribbean is where the group is held and where the arithmetic is done. IGUAKO Capital Holdings Ltd. is incorporated in George Town, and …

Palm Beach

North America

North America is a founding region and the deepest origination market the firm has for pharmaceutical and animal-health transactions. Palm B…

Panama City

Latin America

Latin America is the most origination-heavy region in the network and the smallest by client portfolio. Panama City has been the regional hu…

Luxembourg

Europe

Europe holds more of the client portfolio than any region except the Caribbean and carries the fund platform through which most institutiona…

Dubai

Middle East

The Middle East is the youngest of the four regional hubs and the quickest to reach working scale. Dubai opened as the regional hub in 2023,…

Port Louis

Africa & Indian Ocean

Africa and the Indian Ocean is the smallest region by people and the newest by average office age. Port Louis has been the regional hub sinc…

Singapore

Asia-Pacific

Asia-Pacific is the region the firm expects to grow fastest over the next five years. Singapore has been the regional hub since 2022 and is …

Brisbane

Oceania

Oceania is where the origination discipline of the firm was formed. Brisbane opened in 2019 as one of the two founding offices and is the ba…

The global network

A green iguana at rest in full profile

Character

Patient, adaptive,opportunisticby design.

The institution is comfortable holding a position for a long time and comfortable declining to act for a long time. Most of the return in a mobile-capital model comes from a small number of correct reallocations, which means the cost of forcing activity is higher here than at a single-sector firm.

The iguana in the monogram is the reminder. It waits, watches, and moves once.

Governance

Where decisions are actually made.

Mobility only works if reallocation is governed. Four functions sit above the divisions.

01

Investment Committee

Approves every commitment above the divisional threshold and every reallocation of realised proceeds between divisions.

02

Risk & Valuation

Independent of the investing divisions. Owns position limits, valuation policy and the maximum-loss framework.

03

Information Governance

Controls how proprietary information obtained through operating exposures may and may not be used across the institution.

04

Compliance & Conduct

Jurisdictional licensing, eligibility screening, conflicts and the firm's conduct standards in regulated sectors.

Capital in Rare Form.

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