Phocus1 is a Luxembourg based AIF

The genesis of Phocus1

Phocus1 was born from a meeting and has continued to evolve to perfect its value-creation method.

With its unique performance engine and its tax-efficient legal framework, it has become an Alternative Investment Fund registered in Luxembourg. Depositary bank: JPMorgan, Frankfurt.

It is the story of a meeting initiated by a shareholder of a previous real estate fund in Florida in which I took part after the subprime crisis (2009).

This meeting took place in New York in 2015, where two Frenchmen, one a Wall Street trader at a small brokerage firm and the other a Harvard graduate working at a major US bank, presented to JF Chauffeté their method for arbitraging and operating on the foreign exchange market.

“After my investments outside the euro area, I could clearly see that there was a way to create value that was superior to every conceivable underlying: currency.

I founded Phocus1 when I understood that this was the best method to combine profitability, availability of funds and independence from states and markets.”

Very quickly, the idea of structuring a fund in which he could invest his own money alongside a few close associates became obvious to JF Chauffeté. It then took him three years of research and development to:

1. Understand the mechanisms, in particular the performance engine, so as to invest in the currency market under the best conditions in order to control and balance risk and volatility.

2. Find the best legal and tax framework allowing companies and individuals from all countries to invest their money alongside him.

3. Create a first structure called Moneynci, bringing together several traders, with an offer at several levels of capital risk and a trust which, after analysis, did not match our ambitions, and which was ultimately abandoned.

Activities began in 2017, and Phocus1 was then structured in August 2021 with the features you can discover on this website, for the launch of the first investments.

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Our clients say it best

« I am fond of this photo, taken in the streets of New York during one of my trips to discuss currency trading methods and to develop Phocus1’s remarkable performance engine.

It was taken by one of the Wall Street traders who introduced me to the forex market.

A multiple marathon runner (under 3h30, enthusiasts will appreciate) and a great lover of NYC, I walked between 15 and 50 kilometres every day, alternating between meetings and sightseeing. »

It is the story of a meeting initiated by a shareholder of a previous real estate fund in Florida in which I took part after the subprime crisis (2009).