Xinyu Ru is the founder and portfolio manager of Fawkes Capital Management, established in April 2021. Prior to founding Fawkes, Xinyu spent 10 years at Westpac Banking Corporation within the Chief Investment Office in Sydney and London, where he was responsible for managing macroeconomic risks across foreign exchange, interest rates, and derivatives. His educational background includes finance and law from the Australian National University. The fund has demonstrated generating positive returns in market drawdowns, attracting investors seeking capital preservation. The track record shows low correlation to any single asset class and has attracted growing interest from external investors. The fund later opened to external investors attracted by its unique approach and demonstrated ability to produce positive returns even during market downturns.

Read More

The Fawkes Capital Fund employs a global macro discretionary strategy aimed at generating long-term absolute returns irrespective of market environment through management of a concentrated portfolio of long and short exposures across global asset classes. The fund simultaneously aims to preserve capital and protect investors from material drawdowns. The investment approach emphasizes intellectual curiosity, triangulating investment views, looking for disconfirmatory evidence, and being willing to change minds when facts change. The strategy focuses on identifying durable trends that lead to asset mispricings, leveraging insights from history, philosophy, and behavioral psychology. The fund offers exposure to a diversified portfolio across global equities, bonds, foreign exchange, commodities, volatility, and derivatives through a macro-discretionary and opportunistic approach.

Read More