About Us
Oceans 18 Investments Ltd (“Oceans18”; ABN 65 147 733 597) is an Australian public company in the financial services industry that offers hedge fund style financial products and services, for clients as well as itself. It also provides general advice on its products and services when promoting them to potential clients and their advisers. Oceans18 holds an Australian Financial Services Licence (409 587) giving it the authority to deal and advise on its own products and services with both Wholesale and Retail clients.
The Past
The genesis of Oceans18 was in an informal association of its current major shareholders, under which their private monies were being used to take advantage of the trading-based Intellectual Property that had been developed by one of the group in the first half of the last decade.
This private association commenced "live" trading in early 2005 and has enjoyed a sustained, unbroken period of success, to the point that the participants have never failed to record a positive result in any calendar quarter since. The methodology, systems and processes that form the Intellectual Property were developed in a test environment, over an approximate five-year period prior to the commencement of the major shareholders' "live" trading.
In 2010, Tom Foster joined the team in order to commence the commercialisation of the Intellectual property. Oceans18 was subsequently formed to act as the holder of the Intellectual Property; the holder of the Australian Financial Services Licence; the operator of the trading undertaken within the products and services; and, to continue development of the existing, as well as new, Intellectual Property.
The Present
Oceans18 provides its trading strategies to clients in two formats. Firstly as a service, directly to an entity chosen by the client. Secondly as a product, indirectly via unit trust structures that pool the monies of Wholesale and (possibly at a later date) Retail investors. In the short term, Oceans18 envisages delivering its core strategies to select clients via a direct service format.
At present, Oceans18 is also working on a second group of trading strategies, again with a view to providing the subsequent products or services to clients directly and/or indirectly. Although quite different to Oceans18's core strategies, the new group of strategies will be derived from the existing Intellectual Property.
The Future
Over the medium to long term, Oceans18 will seek to utilise its broader Intellectual Property base in other markets - whether that be diversifying in a geographic, industry category or other sense.
Alternative markets offer the potential for Oceans18 to construct and distribute additional products and services - potentially without the need for significant development time and effort in tailoring existing Intellectual Property. At the very least, this flexibility offers the potential to increase the maximum size of the trading funds that Oceans18 operates for clients and itself. Should these alternative markets be outside Australia, Oceans18 would likely start new products and/or services, rather than expand existing ones.
Having obtained an AFS licence, and adding the Directors’ advisory, management and compliance skills, it is possible that Oceans18 will diversify its product and service offerings into entirely new industry sectors and strategies. Over time, Oceans18 hopes to identify other trading strategies that show potential and develop them internally to the point where they could be offered as products or services to clients.
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