Oceanic Investment Management has a unique skill set - combining industry backgrounds from ship technology, trading and operations, shipping economics as well as pioneering oil service and renewable energy developments over several decades. Our team has developed several unique industry tools that give valuable insights into longer-term cycles as well as real time data.
Over 30 years of expertise
Oceanic Finance Corporation was formed in 1977 as a specialist ship mezzanine finance provider by a group of Canadian shipping and Finance companies, led by Fednav, while Tufton was founded in London in 1985 by Ted Kalborg as a shipping corporate finance advisor.
In 1992 Oceanic Finance Corporation and ISIC (a shipping investment fund advised by Tufton) were acquired by Tufton Oceanic Finance Group, a company backed by GE Capital and Swedish institutions to form Tufton Oceanic as a specialist shipping investment house.
Under the new structure, several funds and accounts were launched to invest in ships, as well as debt and equity instruments within the shipping and offshore oil and gas sectors. Cato Brahde, Jonas Andreasson and Andreas Vergottis founded Oceanic Hedge Fund in 2002 as the first hedge fund managed by the group, and this was an early entrant into the alternative energy sector. The group also pioneered the use of real time satellite data tracking in its analysis of shipping and seaborne trade.
In December 2020 Tufton, which manages physical shipping assets, was acquired by a European Family Office and its management team, while Oceanic Investment Management which manages Oceanic Hedge Fund and other public market investment vehicles was acquired by its existing management.