Constellation Asset Management manages the Constellation Fund, an equity long/short fund that invests primarily in Latin America. The fund trades the following strategies: relative value, pair trading, merger arbitrage, capital structure arbitrage and convertible bond arbitrage. The fund does not invest heavily in the fixed income markets.

The founding partners and co-portfolio managers, Florian Bartunek and Eduardo Munemori, are based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Prior to the founding of Constellation in 2002, Florian was partner and managing director of Banco Pactual where he was in charge of all equity portfolios and funds. He was the manager of the Andromeda Fund, the Infinity Fund and an exclusive portfolio for the Soros Fund. He was also the founding partner of Utor and a director of Anbid.

Eduardo was previously the head of telecommunications research at Banco Pactual and head of Latin America telecommunications research at Banco Santander and a portfolio manager at Utor.

The Constellation Fund was launched in December 2002 and has generated 43.4% since inception and an annualised return of 20.9%. The company currently manages US$63 million in assets, of which US$45 million is in the Constellation Fund.