Press Release - Varengold Wertpapierhandelsbank AG

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Founded 14 years ago, Varengold Wertpapierhandelsbank AG was the first German investment bank that
focuses exclusively on the field of Managed Futures belonging to the class of systematic quantitative hedge fund
strategies.
Varengold was founded by Steffen Fix and Yasin Sebastion Qureshi in 1995 in order to offer German investors
access to international managed futures strategies. The investment bank currently has 35 employees. Its core
business segments are Asset Management with managed futures and Capital Markets Brokerage (securities
processing / brokerage). In-house developments of managed futures strategies comprising financial products
traded on the securities, bond, commodity and foreign exchange stock markets were the company’s priority
during its founding years. For the last eight years, the investment bank has been acting mainly as fund of funds
manager and focuses on the assessment and selection of external managed futures managers from a worldwide
network. At first, Varengold developed the business segment Capital Markets in order to support its own risk
management, Today it provides services for more than 7,000 customers worldwide who use these services to
trade with futures, options, CFDs and Forex.
In addition to its headquarters in Hamburg, Varengold also has service-support offices in Shenzhen (China),
Zurich (Switzerland) and Dubai (U.A.E).
Further information about Varengold can be found at www.varengold.de
Further information about Managed Futrues can be found at www.varengold.de/KnowledgeBase
contact On behalf of Varengold Wertpapierbank
Christina Tilli Charles Barker Corporate Communications, Irina Kobboldt
T +49.40.66 86 49 52 T +49.69.7940 90 30
c.tilli@varengold.de irina.kobboldt@charlesbarker.de