Here is a guide to the managers who are attending this year's HFM US Allocator Summit:

Alambic Investment Management

Strategy: Equity

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Alambic Investment Management manages the Colombard Fund, a market-neutral, sector-neutral and cap-neutral, US equity strategy that has delivered over 14% annualized return in the four years since its inception with 10% annualized volatility.

Alambic’s fundamentally-driven, systematic process is essentially ‘automated equity research’  and the fund serves as a nice diversifying asset to most portfolios as it has zero beta, and near-zero correlations with equities, bonds and other major asset classes. 

www.alambicim.com
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Alpha4x Discretionary Macro Strategies



Strategy: Equity
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Alpha4x Capital Growth Fund employs a discretionary global macro strategy across currencies, interest rates, sovereign credit, and equity indices. The investment team seeks to outperform over full market cycles in a disciplined and repeatable process that expresses macro views as true longs or shorts. The Fund has maintained low to slightly negative correlation and emphasizes capital preservation.

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Barington Capital 



Strategy: Equity
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Barington Companies Equity Partners, L.P. (“Barington” or the “Fund”) is a value-oriented activist investment fund founded in 2000 by James A. Mitarotonda.  Barington focuses on the consumer, retail and industrial sectors.  As a fundamental value manager, Barington invests in undervalued public companies that we believe could appreciate significantly through our becoming influential shareholders and implementing changes in corporate strategy, operations, capital allocation and corporate governance.



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Cobia Capital Management



Strategy: Equity
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Cobia Capital Management LP is a value-oriented long/short equity fund focused on the small capitalization technology sector. The Fund seeks to add alpha through deep fundamental analysis and bottoms up stock picking of smaller technology stocks in the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe. Cobia was founded in 2008 by Jeffrey Meyers and is headquartered in New York City.

www.cobiacap.com
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Dix Hills Partners


Strategy: Fixed Income
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Dix Hills Partners, LLC- a CTA, specializes in managing global interest rate exposure using their proprietary approach, which is both fundamentally driven and systematically implemented, to forecast global interest rate movements over the short term. The “unconstrained duration” strategy independently takes either long or short exposure to four of the most liquid interest rate futures markets - U.S. Treasuries, German Bunds, U.K. Gilts and Japanese JGB’s. The program’s objective is to deliver uncorrelated absolute returns regardless of macroeconomic and market environments using instruments offering among the highest degree of liquidity, scalability and transparency.


www.dixhillspartners.com
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Eclectica Asset Management LLP


Strategy: Discretionary macro 

Eclectica Asset Management is a London-based discretionary global macro manager. The flagship Eclectica Fund was launched in 2002 by Hugh Hendry and has established a 13-year track record annualising at 8% per annum, with a return stream uncorrelated to major asset classes and indices.

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Episteme Capital Partners



Strategy: CTA
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Episteme Capital is a global investment manager formed in 2009.

Episteme Capital currently manages two trading programs. The Systematic Quest, a systematic global macro managed futures program, is traded by its flagship fund, Systematic Quest Portfolio (“SQP”) as well as several managed accounts; and a separate managed account with the Global Liquidity Opportunities program, which consists of SQP’s short-term fixed income liquidity strategies.

We have our main office in London, UK and an office in Rye Brook, NY. We currently manage approximately $475 Million USD (AUM).


www.epistemecap.com
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Kerrisdale Capital Management



Strategy: Equity
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Kerrisdale Capital was founded in July of 2009 and presently manages $390 million in a single strategy.  Kerrisdale is a value oriented long / short equity manager that leverages the publication of deep fundamental research as a catalyst for select investment ideas and a means of strengthening their overall process.  Kerrisdale believes this commitment to "research activism" is a differentiated approach and one that can continue to have success going forward.

www.kerrisdalecap.com
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LibreMax Capital



Strategy: Credit

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LibreMax Capital is a $3.2 billion diversified securitized products credit hedge fund manager, investing in non-Agency RMBS, CMBS/CRE, Consumer ABS, CLO/CDOs, European ABS and corporate credit.

www.libremax.com
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Mill Hill Capital



Strategy: Credit
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Mill Hill Capital is an investment adviser based in New York, focused on market-neutral relative value investments in US Credit, predominantly securitized products and corporate financials. The firm is led by David Meneret, formerly Head of Securitized Debt and Corporate Financials Trading at Macquarie and Senior Portfolio Manager for Macquarie Credit Nexus Fund.

www.millhillcap.com
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Mulvaney Capital



Strategy: CTA

Mulvaney Capital’s systematic long-term trend following program seeks to deliver high absolute returns in rising and falling markets. The program invests in futures contracts linked to a diverse range of commodities and financial assets listed on regulated exchanges around the world. It takes a long term approach to capturing trends in order to reduce the risk of being shaken out by short term price fluctuations. Trading is completely systematic and driven by objective price data.

www.mulvaneycapital.com


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Princeton Alternative Funding



Strategy: Credit
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Princeton Alternative Funding in partnership with MicroBilt, seeks to deliver uncorrelated high yield risk adjusted returns in the alternative lending market.
MicroBilt is the leading credit analysis and risk management company in the alternative consumer market for more than 30 years.  MicroBilt is an NCRA (National Consumer Reporting Agency), regulated by the FTC and the CFPB.

www.princetonalternativefunding.com
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Quaesta Capital



Strategies: CTA and Global Macro


Quaesta Capital AG is an independent Swiss financial services provider with primary focus on currency and macro management. Quaesta Capital AG is regulated by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission SEC.
Our single strategies FX v-Pro (long/short FX volatility) and Global Opportunities (Global Macro) have both a long-standing excellent track record in SICAV-SIF/UCITS IV fund form.
Company AuM currently stands at ~3bio USD. Our long-standing client base consists of pension funds, family offices, fund-of-funds and wealthy individuals.

www.quaestacapital.ch/en/
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Quest Partners



Strategies: CTA
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Quest is a research driven alternative investment firm founded in 2001 by Nigol Koulajian and headquartered in New York. Quest employs a systematic quantitative trading process across multiple asset classes in over 60 liquid global markets including commodities, currencies, equity indices and fixed income. Quest is dedicated to maintaining the integrity of CTA strategies by providing investors with strong absolute return and reliable risk hedging characteristics.  

www.questpartnersllc.com
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ROW Asset Management



Strategy:
CTA; global macro
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ROW Asset Management (ROWAM) is a quantitative asset management firm founded in July 2010 by Ryan O’Grady and Jeff Weiser. The principals of ROWAM worked together for many years at FX Concepts managing multi-billion dollar portfolios and have made significant investments in the firm’s funds, infrastructure and research platform.  Our flagship product, ROW Diversified, is intended to be a true all-weather investment strategy that has low correlation to other CTA’s and other traditional investment strategies.

www.rowam.com

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Smart Box Capital 

Strategy: Credit; Fixed Income

Smart Box Capital is an innovative investment manager that has been an early mover in multiple disruptive industries including algorithmic trading, online financial services and most recently the online lending space. Its current investments in the online lending space are generally focused in the UK with a preference for regulated market segments.

www.smartboxcapital.com

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Theorema Advisors





Strategy: Credit
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Theorema Credit Equity Opportunity Fund (CEO) has been launched in 2014 by Alessandro Esposito (previously Bluebay). CEO is a credit fund that uses equity instruments to enhance the risk/reward profile compared to a single asset strategy. It has a Credit to Equity approach, with directional or relative value positioning and applying a combination of fundamental and quantitative analysis.

The fund is integrated under the Theorema umbrella. The Theorema group of companies was born in 2001.

www.theoremafunds.com

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Welton




Strategy: CTA
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Welton Investment Partners LLC is a leading U.S.-based quantitative multi-strategy investment manager.  Welton serves institutions, private banks, and private wealth investors around the world, with offices in California and New York.
 
www.welton.com
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Wynnefield Capital Management



Strategy:
Equity
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We seek out under-followed, misunderstood and undervalued companies that fit strict parameters which include minimal balance sheet risk and the potential for company or industry specific catalysts. Within the small-cap space, the focus is on companies with typical market-caps ranging from $50mm to $500mm.

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WMM Capital Advisors


Strategy: Global macro 



The primary objective of the firm is both the growth of capital as well as the generation of income.
This is achieved through the use of a proprietary blend of fundamental, quantitative and risk management indicators and models that focus on a top-down into bottoms-up approach to security selection.