About Us

Mathews Capital Partners Pty Limited (“MCP”), Australian Financial Services Licence (252748) was established by Philip Mathews in March 2001. Based in Sydney, Australia MCP manages in excess of A$1 bn of FuM on behalf of a variety of high-net worth individuals, private companies, trusts, superannuation funds and selected institutional clients. A significant portion of MCP’s FuM is owned by staff and related entities.

With over two decades of investment markets experience, Philip Mathews, MCP’s founder and Managing Director is widely regarded as one of Australia’s leading absolute return fund managers. See Masters of The Market, Secrets of Australia’s Leading Share Market Investors*.

MCP remains “index agnostic” with a focus on delivering absolute returns via a high conviction and disciplined investment approach that has produced strong out-performance over the medium to long term. MCP’s successful investment process is based on creative, detailed and original hands-on research. Doing something different is one of the hallmarks of MCP success.

MCP’s unlisted investment vehicles include;

  • Sabre Fund (inception April 2002)
  • Mathews Capital Global Opportunities Fund LP (previously the Tomahawk International Fund LP, inception January 2005)
  • Velocity Fund (inception July 2006)
  • Searchlight Asia Pacific Fund (previously the Voyager Opportunities Fund, inception September 2010)
  • Peak Energy and Global Resources Fund (inception February 2011)

The Sabre Fund and Peak Energy and Global Resources Fund currently closed for new subscriptions.

Over the past decade MCP funds have won many industry awards including;

Mathews Capital Global Opportunities Fund LP– Best new ex-Japan Fund, AsiaHedge Awards. Sabre Fund – Best International Fund, AsiaHedge Awards and Best Single Strategy Directional Fund, Hedge Fund Rocks.

On a number of occasions since launch Bloomberg has ranked the Sabre Fund the best performing non-US equity strategy hedge fund world-wide.

The nucleus of the MCP senior management team including, Philip Mathews, Rod Hinchcliffe and Ben Henri have worked together continuously  since 1999. The recent expansion of MCP  has seen the launch of the Searchlight Asia Pacific Fund and Peak Energy and Global Resources Fund.  The group has experienced a steady increase in FuM generated through both strong fund performance and increased new investor contributions into all the funds.

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