The Calamander Group is a boutique investment manager that specialises in real asset investments in the world's fastest growing markets. Calamander Capital is the Group's fund and investment management unit.

The Group originated as a London based family office in 1997 focused on real estate, and corporatised in 2006. The Group now has three investment core competencies: real estate; financial services; and agri-business/plantations and processing. Calamander Capital's buyout and private equity investment vehicles leverage all three areas of expertise, in a very limited range of markets in South and South East Asia. Offices are in Singapore, London and Colombo the Group's three primary markets.

Calamander expects, and delivers, consistently high returns; yet is a conservative investor. The Group achieves this by following four principles. We invest in real assets, to which we can add value, in niche markets, and for the long term. Our patience and focus allow us to meet our minimum annual target internal rate of return of 20%. Our conservative values preclude us from trading, and we do not take speculative positions in financial assets, derivatives or currencies of any sort.

Calamander is an intensely data driven, economic fundamentals investor and does its own research. We start with a macroeconomic point of view, then focus on industry sector research, and finally the specific investment. The banking and real estate sectors serve as leveraged call options on the underlying economy. Processing and agribusiness/plantation industries provide us with relative value plays in defensive commodity and consumer sectors.