A firm organised around holding periods
Most firms organise around products. We organise around how long a position is meant to live, because that is what actually determines how it should be managed, risked and reported.
How the firm came about
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How we work
The mandate is written before the money moves
Every relationship starts with a document setting out the allocation, the limits and what would cause us to change course. Nothing is bought before it exists. An allocation decided after the fact is not a strategy, it is a description of what happened.
The desks are separated on purpose
A scalping book and an eight-year gold bond need different risk limits, different reporting and different temperaments. Running them under one undifferentiated pot is how a firm ends up funding short-term losses with long-term capital.
Speculative exposure is capped in writing
Where a client wants crypto or short-term trading exposure, it is sized as a satellite allocation with a hard ceiling in the mandate. The ceiling is set when nobody is excited, which is the only time it can be set honestly.
We would rather lose the mandate than misstate the risk
If a desk is wrong for you, we will say so on the first call. That costs us business occasionally. It costs less than the alternative.
Who is accountable
Named people with checkable histories, because that is the question you should be asking.
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