Aventis Asset Management
Aventis Asset Management employs a fundamental, discretionary strategy focused on trading physical commodity futures & options on futures. The trading edge is achieved through rigorous fundamental research and proprietary technical models overlaid with strict risk management policies. Mr. Paul Kim (CEO/Head Trader) is a seasoned trader and is able to execute on fundamental biases as well as incorporating technical analysis using many different strategies.
At Clarke Capital, Jupiter is a fully systematic,
multi-model trend following program that manages capital across a diversified
portfolio of 58 exchange-traded futures markets. Market sectors traded include
interest rates, currencies, grains, softs, metals, meats, energies and stock
index futures. The program employs 58 models which have a long and ultra-long
term focus. The use of both trend and counter-trend components in the models
lowers the correlation of Jupiter to other trend following systems. Each model
consults a “Fuzzy-Logic Trend Filter” for permission to initiate positions and
to take on market risk.
Eco Capital Management
Eco Capital Management was
founded in 1999 and is headquartered outside of West Bend in Kewaskum,
Wisconsin.
The registered CTA is fully
systematic in approach, specialising in the development of diversified global
macro products trading a portfolio of international futures markets. The firm
has profitably traded proprietary and client capital since inception.
Website: www.ecocapitalmanagement.com
Emil van Essen
Emil van Essen is a Chicago-based
registered commodity trading advisor, commodity pool operator and a member of
the National Futures Association. CEO, CIO and founder Emil van Essen has more
than 20 years’ experience in the futures industry in both Canada and the U.S.
He has been a registered CTA since 1997.
Website: www.emilvanessen.com
Gamma Q is
a fundamental discretionary Agriculture and Livestock focused asset
manager. We manage two commodity
pools and have four managed accounts for a total firm wide AUM of $100
million. Our founder and CIO, Todd Delay, was born and raised on a farm
in southern Ohio and through the course of his career founded and operated a
commercial farming operation of 8,000 irrigated acres and a 12,000 head
capacity feed lot in south western Nebraska. It is this full understanding
of the physical movement and decision making that goes into production
and marketing of commodities that give us an edge in our trading.
ISF
Management LLC is a NY-based long/short equity manager with AUM of $150
million. We operate a highly disciplined, investment process featuring Economic
Cash Flow AnalysisTM (our proprietary valuation model ) in
order to identify securities that are attractively priced relative to their
recurring free cash flow generation. From this universe, we perform in-depth,
hands on research to identify securities that possess catalysts capable of
driving favorable multiple revaluation. We manage capital for high net
worth individuals, fund of funds, and mutual funds.
Lake Hill Capital Management
Lake Hill Capital Management is an electronic trader of options and futures in energy, metals, grains, livestock, soft commodities and equity indices. Lake Hill profits by providing liquidity to hedgers and speculators using advanced technology and computational methods. The firm continues to disrupt an industry that was once dominated by banks by fully automating it in order to efficiently respond to growing electronic exchange-traded activity. The firm manages market neutral portfolios that are uncorrelated to alternative benchmarks.
NuWave Investment Management
Since its inception in 2000, NuWave Investment Management has combined extraordinary ingenuity, insightful research and cutting-edge technology to successfully navigate the complexities of global investing. Our unique multi-strategy approach to investing in many of the world's most liquid financial and commodities markets offers investors the potential to achieve compelling risk-adjusted returns in a variety of market environments, while also providing significant diversification and non-correlation benefits relative to both traditional investments and other hedge fund strategies.
Presagium
Presagium is a "medium-frequency" systematic hedge fund trading ultra-liquid G10 Spot FX and listed futures on an underexploited timescale of one second to one hour. The firm is highly research-focused and has a partnership with SUNY Stony Brook University’s Quantitative Finance Department.
Quest is a research driven alternative
investment firm founded by Nigol Koulajian in 2001. Quest stands apart from its
competitors for its commitment to generate Alpha which is positively skewed and
more valuable from a portfolio perspective. Quest employs a quantitative
trading process across multiple asset classes in over 50 liquid global markets
including commodities, currencies, equity indices and fixed income. Quest’s
flagship program, AlphaQuest Original, has delivered +6.7% annual Alpha to the
BTOP50 Index over its 15 year track record. It won the CTA Intelligence US
Performance Award in 2014 for Best Trend Follower. The Quest Tracker Index
(Bloomberg ticker: QTI
Website: http://www.questpartnersllc.com
R. G. Niederhoffer Capital Management, Inc. (“RGNCM”) is a $466 million (as of October 31, 2014), 21-year-old New York-based quantitative trading advisor that employs a short-term, primarily contrarian strategy to trade the world’s largest and most liquid equity, fixed income, foreign exchange and commodity markets. The firm’s scientific trading philosophy takes inspiration from the field of computational neuroscience. Founded in 1993, RGNCM currently employs 22 professionals.
Website: www.niederhoffer.com
Third Street Ag Investments
Third Street AG Investments, LLC was formed in 2012 by Robert E. Otter and Chad R. Burlet to team together two successful grain and soybean traders to form a Commodity Trading Advisor. The principals of the firm are two old friends who grew up in the grain business. One, a Minnesota boy who began his career with Cargill and then, Goldman Sachs. The other was a Chicago kid who found his way to the Board of Trade while still in high school, and not long after was in the soybean pit for the next 35 years. We began working together in the early ‘80’s and became business partners in 2012. Why the name Third Street? We both lived on it in Hinsdale, Illinois for many years, and it’s still where one of us resides. We have brought our collective 70+ years of successful commodity trading into our Managed Futures firm. Managed in a much more conservative manner than what most people imagine when they think of commodity trading, we offer exposure to the agricultural markets in a thoughtful and balanced manner. We achieve this by applying our knowledge, experience and analytical skills to the markets that we know well, and by using less leverage. Often we hedge ourselves by buying what we think is undervalued and selling what we think is expensive. In short, our trading philosophy is value based.
Cartesian Re Management
Cartesian Re is an investment manager that has
generated attractive risk-adjusted returns uncorrelated with traditional asset
classes through investments in insurance-linked securities. Cartesian Re was
formed in 2009 and is an affiliate of Cartesian Capital Group, a global private
equity firm with more than $2 billion in investments and commitments. Cartesian
Re Management Co. manages Cartesian Re Offshore Fund, L.P. (together with its
predecessors applying the same strategy, the “Fund”), a traditional open-ended
investment fund, and also creates opportunity funds and customized managed
accounts for institutional investors.
Conrad Capital Management
CCM Partners LP, a proprietary long/short small/mid focused Hedge Fund of Funds opened in June of 2002 and is celebrating over 12 years of audited, uninterrupted, consistent risk adjusted performance. What we offer is experienced management, diversification and the selection of the best underlying funds. Our objective is to preserve capital and being positioned defensively against market volatility, while capturing alpha over the long term. CCM Partners may also be called a multi-manager alternative investment, it holds a portfolio of other investment funds instead of investing directly in securities. We may be appealing to investors seeking the non-correlated returns potential with diversification to help manage risk. We work hard to achieve superior long-term capital appreciation, and more importantly, avoid excessive loss of principal in volatile markets as seen between 10/2008 and 03/2009 when CCM Partners was down only 13.68% in the period, while the S&P 500 dropped 53.21% and Russell 2000 Growth sank 57.11%. The general partner, Mr. Donald Conrad has 33 years of professional experience in the financial industry. In his role he has provided highly customized investment advice to his clients, worked with complex portfolios and served the many unique needs that often require special management strategies. He founded Conrad Capital Management in 1997 as a SEC and FINRA registered investment adviser to families and institutions across the country.
Insparo Asset Management
Insparo is an independent specialist frontier markets asset management company, focusing on Africa and the Middle East. The firm offers equity and fixed income strategies managed by a team with extensive experience in frontier markets, using a disciplined investment process, proprietary research, strong controls and risk management. The current funds are: Insparo Africa Equity Fund, Insparo Africa Fixed Income Fund and the Insparo Africa and Middle East Fund (fixed income).
Website: www.insparo.com
ISF Management
Investment Strategies Fund is a New York based Investment Partnership managed by ISF Management LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor. Our objective is to earn superior risk-adjusted returns investing in publicly traded securities acquired at inherently favorable valuations, where there is a high probability of realizing a more realistic Market value. We believe every security has an intrinsic value in relation to its capital structure, asset base, and prospects for cash generation (“Value Investing”). In our view, the principal challenge of Value Investing is to ascertain whether the factors and variables used by the Market to determine the price of a given security are accurate and relevant. We complement traditional Value Investing methods with focused hands-on research, modeling, and analysis to more effectively assess a given company’s prospects for cash flow generation, growth, capital funding, and value creation.
Ledenhall Capital Partners LLP
Leadenhall Capital Partners LLP is a London based investment manager founded in 2008 wholly focused on investing in insurance linked investments portfolios for institutional investors. Leadenhall Capital Partners offers dedicated funds and managed accounts which give institutional investors access to differing levels of exposure to insurance linked investments. Investors benefit from the attractive returns of the sector, whilst diversifying their risks from the traditional capital markets. Many instruments, such as cat bonds and private placements of collateralised reinsurance, are being used to transfer insurance linked risk to the capital markets; Leadenhall plays across all of them to ensure liquidity, profitability, diversification and growth. Leadenhall’s AUM stands at $1.8bn+
Mercury Capital
Website: www.millstreet.com
Napier Park
Napier Park is a global alternative asset management platform with approximately $6.4 billion in assets under management. The firm offers a diversified product mix including hedge funds, bespoke client solutions, private investments, CLOs and structured credit to large, sophisticated institutional investors.
Website: www.napierparkglobal.com
SaLaurMor Investment Management
SaLaurMor specializes in long-short
equity strategies with a focus on global insurers, asset managers and related
industry groups with low turnover and a long-term investment time horizon. The
key objective is to generate superior risk-adjusted returns with limited
correlation to financial institutions, and low net exposure to the equity
market. The firm relies on detailed pain-staking research; bottoms-up
fundamental research on the financial sector, where we have specific expertise.
Three Rock Capital is a discretionary global macro
manager based in Dublin, Ireland. Its Global Macro Program trades FX, Rates,
Equity Indices and Precious Metals using liquid exchange traded futures. Risk
is concentrated and directional, correlations to traditional and alternative
assets classes are low and the program has 50% exposure to FX, on average.
Website: www.threerockcapital.com
Tiburon Capital Management
Liquid,
Event-Driven Investing:
Process: Tiburon is advantaged by its proprietary BRACE Methodology. We identify fundamentally sound businesses with plausible revaluation catalysts.
Website: http://www.tiburonholdings.net/
