About – Tadrus Capital, LLC

Firm

Tadrus Capital is a global quantitative alternative investment manager. Our mission is helping high-net worth individuals, family offices, and institutional investors achieve their investment objectives by deploying capital in public financial products on all major markets across the globe. We invest our clients’ capital in multiple quantitative investment strategies, including a fully systematic quantitative global macro investment program covering all asset classes, such as Equity, Fixed Income, Currencies, Commodities, and Volatility. We believe that our main competitive advantage and unique value proposition resides in our proprietary quantitative research aimed at discovering alpha and substantial investment in technology.

Mission

Our main objective is to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns for our investors within a robust risk management framework through the application of the scientific method to the field of investment management. In the pursuit of our mission we strive to attract, train, and retain the best human talent from the fields of science and technology. We work hard to constantly improve our company, processes, and technology with the final objective of offering competitive and innovative products within a solid investment and operational infrastructure.

Teams

Investment Management

Our portfolio management team has the goal to deploy the capital we manage on behalf of our investors through various strategies. It is also responsible of monitoring risk, to constantly refine existing investment strategies, and bring new investment funds.

We seek people with experience managing investment portfolios using systematic and quantitative strategies, and who can bring value to our company through superior alpha generation.

Risk Management

Our risk management team makes sure that all the risks in our company are properly kept under control, and promptly intervenes to bring all investment exposures within predefined limits when necessary.

We look for people from quantitative disciplines who can use statistical techniques to analyze investment risks, and at the same time can communicate well with other teams within the company to report them on the current exposures and guide them to correction when needed.

Quantitative Research & Development

The quantitative research team is at the core of our investment process. It is responsible of analyzing considerable amounts of data using advanced statistical and machine learning techniques in order to find patterns and insights which can be used in our investment funds to generate alpha. Our quantitative development team creates new software and algorithms needed to support all of our other investment functions. In particular, they develop tools for data cleaning, performing sophisticated quantitative analyses, connect to the exchanges and prime brokers, and execute our investment strategies into production.

Our quantitative researchers hold advanced quantitative degrees from scientific and engineering fields. They must be very good problem solvers, intellectually curious, with common sense and practicality, and able to think out-of-the-box. We look for people with advanced degrees from the fields of computer science that can create high-performing software and also understand well technology.

Data Science

Our data scientists are responsible of collecting both traditional and alternative datasets from different sources, evaluating them, cleaning through automated scripts and manual intervention as requested, and deliver them in a format easily usable for analysis by our quantitative researchers. In addition, the team helps create visualization tools to facilitate our quants to gain more easily valuable insights from vast amounts of data.

We look for people with background in a scientific or engineering discipline who are able to manipulate large amounts of data by developing automated tools, and at the same time pay attention to details in order to ensure that the final processed data is free of errors.

Operations & Execution

Our operations and execution team continuously monitors the investment positions in our funds to make sure that everything is running smoothly, and promptly intervenes when needed. In particular, it manages trade capture, settlement, and reconciliation, monitor the P&L, and process corporate actions. In addition, it provides insights to other teams that can help them in developing new investment products or reducing transaction costs by constantly watching market action in different conditions.

We look for people who enjoy working in a dynamic environment, have great discipline, and that have an intellectual curiosity towards financial markets.

Systems Engineering.

Our system engineers are responsible of maintaining the hardware and network infrastructure used by other teams within the company to perform research, develop software, and execute our investment strategies.

Our team is made of people with degrees in engineering and computer science who understand network connections and can manage and operate servers and databases.

Legal & Compliance

Our legal and compliance team makes sure that we satisfy are compliant with existing regulations at all times. They also help other team in drafting legal material to allow investors to deploy capital in our funds.

We need people with knowledge of securities law and financial regulations.

Accounting & Administration

Our accounting and administration team is responsible of keeping the books for our companies and hedge funds. They make sure that enough margin capital is available to execute trades, periodically update the capital accounts in our investment entities, support the audit process of our hedge funds, prepare and file tax returns, manage accounts payable, and report to our investors.

We look for people with experience in accounting and administration for hedge funds or other alternative investment managers.

Human Resources

Our human capital is our greatest asset. The human resources team is responsible for sourcing, attracting, and hiring the best people with advanced degrees from engineering and scientific fields. They also devise plan to make our employees satisfied in order to reduce turnover.

We look for people good at identifying great human talent and able to assign a person to a position where he can successfully develop and express himself at his full potential.

Competitive Advantage

We work hard to be among the best quantitative alternative investment managers. In order to do this, we focus our efforts on four core components.

Quantitative Research

Our quantitative research team, holding advanced degrees in the fields of science and engineering, analyzes vast amounts of historical data with the objective of gaining insights in financial markets and uncover profitable investment opportunities, with the support of sophisticated statistical tools.

Technology

Technology is a critical component for our business. First of all it supports the work of our quantitative researcher who use advanced statistical tools and algorithms. Second, it enables the execution of our automated investment strategies. We make substantial investments to constantly improve our technology with the objective of having a robust infrastructure capable of handling and managing large investment portfolios.

Risk Management

Preserving capital for our investors is a primary principle in our organization. In the pursuit of our objective, we use a sophisticated risk management framework which monitors various types of risks related to our investments. We have both automated and manual procedures in place to manage risk and promptly intervene when needed.

Innovation

Financial markets are always changing and profit opportunities may disappear at any time. For this reason, our investment team constantly searches for new sources of alpha using a variety of quantitative tools and datasets. Through continous innovation we aim to provide a diversified portfolio of investment products with differences sources of alpha.

Investors

Our mission is to be a partner of both individual and institutional investors who need help in order to manage their capital. We understand that each of our clients has a unique set of requirements that needs to be satisfied. For this reason, we work closely with our clients to understand their specific investment goals and see if one of our investment products can provide a solution.

Institutions

Potential institutional investors who can work with us include public and private pension funds, corporations, asset and private wealth managers, endowments, foundations and not-for-profit organizations, insurance companies, investment trusts, government agencies, sovereign wealth funds, private and central banks, RIA’s, and funds of funds. Our objective is to understand their unique needs and objectives in terms of target risk and returns, and see if one of our investment product can help them match their needs. We always try to improve our operations, technology, and procedures to meet the requirements of institutional investors.

Family Offices

We can work with family offices who are looking for portfolio diversification through an allocation to uncorrelated strategies in the alternative investment space. In particular, our team has a discussion to understand exposures to traditional and alternative investments in their current portfolio in terms of risk and performance. Thereafter, we see if we can improve their efficient frontier through an allocation to one of our investment products.

High Net Worth Individuals

We can work with entrepreneurs, corporate executives, angel investors, private wealth managers, and other high-net worth individuals who need to outsource the investment management process. When managing investments on behalf of HNWI investors, we work closely with them to understand their investment goals, current financial situation, and see if one of our product can be a good fit for them.