The Golden Falls of Iceland — powerful, enduring, patient
About the Firm
Gullfoss Capital Partners is an independent, long-only equity fund built on a simple conviction: great investment results come from identifying exceptional businesses and having the discipline to hold them through volatility.
From over 50,000 publicly traded stocks globally, years of research have identified approximately 80 businesses with durable competitive advantages, high returns on capital, and long reinvestment runways. When temporary distress creates opportunity, we act decisively.
15–20 carefully selected positions means every idea matters. No closet indexing. No dilution of our best ideas across hundreds of stocks.
We hold with multi-year time horizons. Activity is the enemy of returns. The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.
Substantial personal capital is invested alongside our limited partners. Every decision affects the founder's family wealth the same way it affects yours.
Zero management fee — we don't get paid for just breathing air. We earn only when you exceed a 6% annual hurdle rate.
"All intelligent investing is value investing — acquiring more than you are paying for."
— Charlie Munger
Investment Approach
From over 50,000 publicly traded stocks globally, years of research have identified approximately 80 businesses with durable competitive advantages, high returns on capital, and long reinvestment runways. We don't search for needles in the haystack. We maintain a list of needles and wait for them to go on sale.
Finding exceptional businesses
We seek businesses with durable competitive advantages — network effects, switching costs, scale economies, brand, or regulatory moats — generating returns well above their cost of capital with long runways for reinvestment.
We buy only when price trades at a meaningful discount to our conservative estimate of intrinsic value, whether driven by temporary loss of confidence, inflection points, hidden assets, or the market underestimating durability.
The power of patience
Once we own exceptional businesses at reasonable prices, the hardest part is doing nothing. Every transaction has costs: taxes, spreads, and the opportunity cost of being wrong about timing.
We sell rarely and only when the thesis breaks, a business becomes egregiously overpriced, management destroys value, or a materially superior opportunity appears. Price declines, macro fears, and analyst downgrades are not sell triggers.
Track Record
13 years at Manulife's Essential Equity Team, rising to Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager. Part of a 10-person team that grew AUM from $5 billion to over $20 billion.
The team won numerous investment awards and managed multiple strategies for institutional and retail clients across geographies and market capitalizations — from Canadian small-caps to global large-caps.
Past performance should not be construed as an indicator of future performance. An investment in the account involves a high degree of risk. Commissions, management fees and expenses all may be associated with investments in the Account. Please read the offering document for the Account before investing.
Fee Structure
This structure eliminates the conflict of interest inherent in traditional fee models. If the fund returns 5%, we earn nothing. If it returns 0%, we earn nothing. If it loses money, we earn nothing. The only way we get paid is by generating returns above what you could reasonably expect elsewhere.
Management Fee
Forever. No annual fee regardless of performance or AUM. We don't get paid for just breathing air.
Hurdle Rate
You keep the first 6% of returns every year. Performance fee only applies above this threshold.
Performance Fee
Only on returns above the 6% hurdle. With high-water mark protection so you never pay twice on the same gains.
"We do well only when our investors do well."
Your Partner
Managing Partner & Portfolio Manager
CFA Charterholder · University of Waterloo, B.Math (Computer Science)
Saurabh spent 13 years at Manulife Asset Management, progressing from Analyst to Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager on the Essential Equity Team — a 10-person group that grew AUM from $5 billion to over $20 billion. The team won numerous investment awards and managed multiple strategies for institutional and retail clients.
At Manulife, Saurabh managed several mandates across geographies and market capitalizations, from Canadian small-caps to global large-caps. That breadth of experience built deep conviction about what works: concentrated positions in exceptional businesses, held with patience.
After more than a decade of honing this approach within an institutional framework, the time felt right to build something independent. Gullfoss exists to concentrate in the best ideas, hold with patience even through volatility, and align completely with investors. Saurabh's family wealth is invested alongside yours.
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Gullfoss Capital Partners engages selectively with aligned accredited investors and family offices. Exceptional partnerships are built on candor and mutual respect.