In May the Nikeforos portfolio reached 5 years of age. At the same time I decided to take a serious job as Head of Savings and Investment at Länsförsäkringar Bank. That decision marked the last chance for me to launch the Gaming Fund, as two fund companies I was hoping Read more…
Biografen Skandia opened its doors at 8.30am on Wednesday 16th May for Breakit’s first conference for gaming and investments. Stockholm has not been well served with gaming conferences despite its importance to the industry, but there were high quality and interesting delegates, a gratifyingly high quality of moderators and panellists, good themes, Read more…
It is two years to the day that the Nikeforos portfolio made it’s first investments. The portfolio was put together based on my philosophy of where the gaming industry was going and what its role was in the economy. I drew a line around the industry that was wider than most people would have drawn, hoping to catch all parts of the value chain and focus on larger trends rather than hot tickets.
The portfolio included some hardware makers, some developers, of course, but also distributors, IP originators (film industry), key suppliers (chip makers), and would keep an eye on e-sports and gaming accessories. While not directly investing in Amazon, Google, Tencent and Apple, it kept an eye on the movements of these top predators in the gaming universe.
Two years later the result is an auditable ARR of 50.43%, a Sharpe ratio of 1.67. The portfolio outperforms the only gaming ETF in the world (ETFMG Video Game Tech ETF – US26924G7060) by 44% over these two years.
Business plan is sort of semi drafted, still lots of questions to deal with. Special, UCITS or ETF? ETFs are the future…..but is the Nordic market ready for them? (are they cheap enough?) Facebook and Twitter profiles created. Glad that Byzantine Emperors are not trending right now so both handles are available. Is this a Read more…
Friday 19th May brought the best weather of the year, but Nikeforos was attending Nordic Game 2017. The aim was a get a better view of the whole game supply chain. Spoke to Hyper Games first, who’s title Morkredd won a prize and was a fun concept, although not sure if Read more…