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Hathersage Capital Management LLC is a discretionary global macro investment manager founded in 1991. The firm is a foreign exchange specialist, expressing its global macro views strictly in G10 currencies, using interbank spot, forwards and vanilla options.
Hedgeweek’s readership voted Hathersage Capital Management’s Citi Access G10 Macro Access Strategy the Best Macro Hedge Fund at the 2018 Hedgeweek USA Awards.
The portfolio management team at Hathersage has been managing substantial G10 FX portfolios for more than three decades. At a time when systematic trading and alt-beta exposure has grown dramatically, Hathersage is an experienced discretionary manager who understands how to
Carmot Capital designed an investment strategy that delivers top returns during times of market stress. Founded by George Sokoloff, PhD, CFA and Gerd Infanger, PhD in Silicon Valley in 2013, Carmot applies its experience and artificial intelligence models to manage a market neutral statistical arbitrage fund that profits from surprisingly predictable chaos.
The name Carmot comes from the alchemical process of turning base metal into gold. Carmot was believed to be a mythical element of the philosopher’s stone and is the name taken by one of few hedge funds who operate in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Carmot’s Tail Risk
It’s fair to say that Optima Fund Management has seen a lot of change in the hedge fund industry, given that it has celebrated its 30th anniversary in July 2018. Since Dixon Boardman founded the New York-based firm in 1988, it has steered a steady course. It has continued to evolve in line with market trends so as to unearth the best hedge fund talent, which feature in a range of multi-manager funds, the first of which, a long/short equity FoFs, has been running since the year of Optima’s inception.
As one would expect at a FoHF firm, investment research
Pillar Capital Management (‘Pillar’) was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Bermuda. The firm manages open-ended Bermuda incorporated funds invested in the global property catastrophe risk market.
The senior management team at Pillar, headed up by CEO and CIO, Stephen Velotti, has an average of 25 years’ experience in the reinsurance marketplace.
Pillar Capital is focused on providing alpha to investors through the reinsurance space. It aims to provide an attractive yield for investors while managing the risk it takes to achieve its returns. Analysing the entire market from the large reinsurance sector to the small ILW market and
Established in 2013, New York-based Wavelength Capital Management is an independent investment management firm specialising in liquid, transparent, and cost-effective investment solutions designed to preserve assets and produce returns in any economic environment.
“We focus on factor-based fixed income analysis powered by technology,” says Mark Landis, who co-founded Wavelength with Andrew Dassori. “We invest using a systematic approach that applies quantitative tools to process fundamental economic and market information. We seek to empower our clients through transparency in what we do, sharing our research process, and our mission is to deliver the best balance of risk and return for their
Founded by Troy Buckner, NuWave Investment Management LLC pursues a unique multi-strategy approach to investing in many of the world’s most liquid markets. Buckner serves as Managing Principal, joined by a staff of 10 professionals, including Yury Orlov, NuWave’s Head of Research, and Craig Weynand, the firm’s Chief Operating Officer.
NuWave has long considered itself a pioneer in the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to the financial and commodity markets, having first deployed such concepts as far back as 2001. In the last decade significant advances in computing power and the development of increasingly sophisticated AI modelling
Foxhill Capital Partners LLC is an SEC registered value-oriented event driven hedge fund with particular expertise in distressed and special situations. The firm is based in Juno Beach, Florida. It was established by Neil Weiner, CIO, in 2006, with the launch of the Foxhill Opportunity Fund LP. In addition to the Fund, Foxhill manages an array of Separately Managed Accounts customised to meet specific client objectives.
The Fund looks across the entire corporate capital structure for the best risk-reward opportunities as companies engage in restructuring. By combining fundamental research with the use of options, derivatives and futures to carefully hedge
Boothbay Fund Management LLC, is the investment manager for the firm’s flagship fund, a global multi-strategy hedge fund established by Ari Glass in 2014. The Fund seeks to generate strong risk-adjusted returns by allocating capital to idiosyncratic strategies that have minimal correlation to each other and traditional asset classes.
The Fund combines the risk management and investment principals of the large well-known multi-manager hedge funds while also taking advantage of its smaller relative size and investing in niche and less-crowded strategies.
Boothbay has three major components to its strategy and portfolio. First is a ‘traditional’ multi-strategy aspect, which utilises daily
One of the prevailing thoughts among the hedge fund community at this year’s Hedgeweek USA awards in New York, which took place on 20 September, was the expectation that volatility was steadily making a comeback.
As many will know, volatile markets are a hedge fund manager’s best friend. Like big wave surfers in the middle of a storm surge, they thrive on the adrenaline of choppy markets and big price moves. But as we observe (or perhaps lament) the 10th anniversary of the Global Financial Crisis, one of the defining characteristics of that period, broadly speaking, has been a perniciously low
Fidelity Investments has launched a new company, Fidelity Digital Asset Services, which will offer enterprise-quality custody and trade execution services for digital assets (cryptocurrencies) to sophisticated institutional investors such as hedge funds, family offices and market intermediaries.
“Our goal is to make digitally-native assets, such as bitcoin, more accessible to investors,” says Abigail P Johnson, Chairman and CEO of Fidelity Investments. “We expect to continue investing and experimenting, over the long-term, with ways to make this emerging asset class easier for our clients to understand and use.”
“We started exploring blockchain and digital assets several years ago, and those
