The business focuses on the design, development and implementation of quantitative market neutral strategies. Founded in 1982, Sabre s business has evolved through time and in the past has incorporated the management of futures funds, multi-manager funds and structured products. Sabre has specialised in equity market neutral fund management since 1997. The business is headed up by Mark Wagner, Managing Director. In addition, there is a team of three trading professionals, fronted by Niall MacDougall, Head of Trading.
Sabre clients are predominantly long standing and institutional.
The investor base comprises pension funds, corporates, banks, other asset managers, fund of funds and a few high net worth individuals. At inception, the strategy focused on the UK market and as assets under management grew the Fund was closed to new investment in August of 1998. The Sabre Market Neutral strategy is based on the systematic trading of stock pairs.