AVENTURA, FL.– Artemis Capital Partners, LLC has formed to offer structured products designed to deliver significant portfolio diversification and exceptional risk-adjusted returns. Artemis combines a proprietary, quantitative investment selection process with broad diversification to meet the objective of preserving wealth in times of extreme event risk while maintaining the ability to achieve strong risk-adjusted returns.  Its investment thesis was developed over a two-year period and extensively tested in a 12-year blind test (1995-2006). 

“We understand the world doesn’t need more ‘me-too’ alternative investment vehicles. We believe, however, that the market is seeking a market-neutral vehicle that delivers true portfolio diversification, capital preservation, and an opportunity for strong risk-adjusted returns.  Artemis designs its products to meet this market need.  Our goal is to consistently beat the HFRI Fund of Funds Weighted Composite Index, as well as major world stock market indices, as measured by risk-adjusted returns,” says Don Kurz, Managing Member and CEO of Artemis Capital Partners.

 Ã¢â‚¬Å“At Artemis Capital Partners, our approach is designed to generate stable and consistent returns via rigorous investment selection, extensive diversification and prudent application of leverage,” says Salomon Konig, Managing Member and Chief Investment Officer of Artemis Capital Partners.  Ã¢â‚¬Å“By drawing upon our proprietary databases and investment models, we design structured investment vehicles engineered to optimize risk-adjusted returns.”

Don Kurz is Managing Member and CEO of Artemis Capital Partners, LLC. Prior to forming Artemis, Mr. Kurz was President and Owner of Insight Creative Solutions, Inc. (ICS), a venture investor and provider of general management consulting services. Prior to his work with ICS, Mr. Kurz was Chairman, President and CEO of EMAK Worldwide, Inc, a global, NASDAQ-traded company providing strategic and marketing services to Fortune 500 companies internationally. Mr. Kurz’s 25 years’ experience in senior leadership includes management positions with Towers Perrin, Coopers and Lybrand and the J.C. Penney Company. Mr. Kurz is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Johns Hopkins University, and serves on its Finance and Debt sub-committees. He received an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a BA from The Johns Hopkins University.

Salomon Konig is Managing Member, CIO and Portfolio Manager of Artemis Capital Partners, LLC.  Mr. Konig has been a thought-leader and innovator in finance, investments and hedge funds for more than 30 years, in the US and Latin America.  Mr. Konig is a Board Member of The Hedge Fund Association and has served as a partner to intellectual pioneers in financial analysis, including Jack Schwager, Roger Ibbotson, and Charles Friefeld.  Prior to forming Artemis, Mr. Konig was President and owner of American Lead Ventures, an advisor to family offices and funds of funds and a Senior Consultant to Global Partners Group, where he analyzed, seeded and incubated hedge funds and funds of hedge funds.  Mr. Konig has a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science and attended Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela, studying mathematics in the Graduate School.  

About Artemis Capital Partners, LLC

Artemis Capital Partners has offices in Aventura, Florida and Los Angeles, California.  BNP Paribas is the Firm’s structured products counterparty.  The Company works with Meridian Fund Services Limited for Fund Administration; auditing and tax services are provided by Spicer Jeffries, LLP.  The Securities Law Group serves as legal counsel.

This release is not an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security nor an offer to provide investment advisory services to any person.  This release contains forward-looking statements.  Due to a variety of factors, including general business and market conditions, the achievement of forward-looking statements is subject to risks and uncertainties and may not be attained.