About
Our Story
Frustrated by overpriced and underwhelming conferences, Sophocles Sophocleous and Tim du Toit launched the Value Investing Seminar in Cyprus in 2016. The goal was simple: create a focused, high-quality forum where serious investors could exchange actionable ideas without sales, noise, or performative networking.
Over time, Sophocles refined the event and established a permanent home for it, evolving it into the Cyprus Value Investor Conference and since 2024 FatAlpha Value (Cyprus), following the launch of a second event in Asia. Confidentiality and non-solicitation rules became foundational, ensuring participants could speak openly and share their thinking.
The Next Chapter
After years of hosting a consistently oversubscribed event in Cyprus, it became clear that demand for a serious, idea-driven investor forum extends far beyond what a single in-person event can accommodate. The intimacy of the Cyprus format (capped at 85 participants) is essential and cannot be scaled physically.
What can be shared is the underlying approach: thoughtful discussion, company-specific ideas, and an environment built on trust rather than promotion.
This next chapter extends that philosophy through a carefully designed online format, allowing more investors to engage with the same standards of content and conduct. These initiatives expand the FatAlpha community while preserving what makes it work.
Founder
Sophocles Sophocleous, CFA
Sophocles brings decades of investment expertise and a passion for connecting financial minds. Born in Canada, Sophocles is a Fulbright Scholar and CFA Charterholder with extensive experience in both developed and emerging markets across equities and debt. He served as a full-time advisor to Zurich-based activist fund Veraison Capital AG. Prior to that, he managed two Actively Managed Certificates (AMCs) under Julius Baer (Switzerland), achieving benchmark outperformance during his tenure. Sophocles has managed institutional portfolios across multiple geographies and asset classes, including an 11-year stint with London-based Emerging Markets fund manager Argo Capital Management. He has taught the CFA Level 1 at the European University Nicosia and designed and taught an applied portfolio management course at the Cyprus International Institute of Management. A frequent speaker at events globally and host of “No Fluff, Just Ideas” podcast. He holds a double major in Economics and Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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