Rettig Ltd

Rettig Ltd is a family-owned investment company that creates value for generations. Our investment strategy focuses on both listed and private investments globally and sets out to generate attractive over the cycle returns while maintaining an appropriate risk level in the portfolio. A cornerstone in our investment strategy is the ambition to cooperate with professional and like-minded partners and co-investors. Rettig Ltd is controlled by the 9th generation of the von Rettig family.

Investment strategy

Our investment strategy aims to find the best investment opportunities across global public and private markets.

Listed Core Investments

In Listed Core Investments, we create value through active ownership in publicly traded companies. We seek to invest in attractive companies where we share the mindset of other significant shareholders, Boards, and management teams. We target high-quality Northern European mid-cap companies, and typically aim at being one the largest owners, working actively through nomination committees and the Board of Directors. A precondition for our Listed Core Investments is that we can articulate an actionable investment thesis which can justify above-market expected returns.

Private Market Investments

We focus on global fund investments managed by best-in-class Private Equity managers covering the entire lifecycle of firms (venture capital, growth equity and buyout). In addition, we make selected high-conviction co-investments alongside fund managers and selectively evaluate opportunities in the secondary market. Over the past decade, we have made more than 50 private market investments globally, including fund commitments and co-investments, supporting leading private market sponsors. We aim to be a highly professional, value-adding, and flexible Limited Partner and co-investment partner. Our relationships are built on trust and professionalism and are long-term by nature.

Liquid Investments

Liquid Investments is a global strategy deploying capital into listed equity- or equity-like investment opportunities, both index products and single names. All investments will by nature be liquid. By actively managing our portfolio through our in-house team, we aim to achieve both above-market returns and improve our portfolio’s overall return / risk, and liquidity profile.

Absolute Return Strategies

Investments in Absolute Return Strategies focus on external global hedge funds with a diverse set of underlying strategies, e.g., event-driven, long-short, and macro strategies. Multi-strategy funds will typically constitute a meaningful part of this allocation. The purpose of this sub-strategy is to provide an attractive return / risk profile with low correlation in relation to our other investment strategies.

Team

Our team comprises experienced investment professionals and specialists, working together to execute our investment strategy and deliver attractive returns over-the-cycle

Our story

Rettig started as a tobacco factory in Hamburg in Germany in the 1770s. Later the business operations moved to Sweden and in 1845, Rettig established a tobacco factory in Turku, Finland. Since then, the company has throughout its long history been actively engaged in a broad range of industrial businesses.