For this issue we had the pleasure of interviewing Christian Ryther, Founder and Portfolio Manager of Curreen Capital.
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Read the last two interviews with Jeremy Kokemor (Right Tail Capital) and Daniel Gladiš (Vltava Fund).
Hi Christian, thanks so much for taking the time to do this interview.
Can you please tell readers a little more about your background, and how you got involved in investing?
For me it started in high school, when I read Peter Lynch’s books. They sparked my excitement for stocks.
I had a few analytical jobs in the years after college, but I knew that I wanted to spend my life investing in businesses, and not just as a hobby.
To pursue an investing career seriously, I worked through the CFA program and went to Columbia Business School for its Value Investing Program.
During and after business school I interned and worked for hedge funds, and I have been an investor full-time since then.
What led you to start Curreen Capital? And what do you offer investors that is different from other funds?
In early 2013 I consulted for a month at what I thought of as the perfect fund – great people, great strategy, great LPs… and I hated it.
That surprised me and I realized that I had to reassess what it was that I really wanted to do – out of that came the idea that what I really wanted was to invest my own way, for partners that trust me. I got to work and launched Curreen Capital a few months later.
Curreen Capital is a “value” fund, we look at smaller companies, a lot of spinoffs, and at stocks that are outside the US.
Partners get a portfolio of excellent businesses that are out of favor—and a strategy that has been out of favor for the past few years—managed by someone who knows them and answers the phone when they want to talk. Curreen is a value fund with a personal connection to our partners.