Charles McGarraugh has over 20 years’ experience in the finance industry and is a proven finance professional with deep trading and business building experience across both traditional FICC and digital asset markets. Charles was appointed Chief Investment Officer and Principal of Altis Partners in April 2020. From 2000 to 2016, he served in various trading roles at Goldman Sachs. Following a relocation in London in 2009, Goldman named Charlie to its exclusive partnership in 2012, as a result of his leadership of the successful build-out of its market-leading European mortgages business. In 2014 he assumed a senior role in Goldman’s commodity department as Global Head of Metals trading and refocused on commodity markets. Charles left the bank in mid-2016 to join algorithmic sports trading company Stratagem Technologies in order to focus more deeply on machine learning and predictive analytics. There he served as Chairman and CEO until its sale to Blockchain.com in late 2018. He was Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Markets at Blockchain.com from 2018 until September 2022. He holds a BA in Economics and Mathematics from Yale University, and graduated magna cum laude with distinction.
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Stephen HedgecockPrincipal
Stephen Hedgecock has worked in the financial industry for over 35 years with experience in corporate operations, implementing systematic trading programs, derivatives dealing, and business development. Since 2005 he has been a Principal of Altis Partners (Jersey) Limited (“Altis”), a prominent Jersey based Quantitative Macro Fund Manager, serving on the Executive board and individual Risk and Investment Committees. From 2000 until 2005 the same role was held at Altis Partners Limited in London. Current Directorships in Jersey include being a board Director at two funds organised by Altis, the Altis Master Fund ICC and Blockchain.com Asset Management ICC. In addition, an Executive board position has been held since March 2019 at Revoke Limited (including Revoke USA Limited from September 2019) a technology company offering services in personal data protection. Previous Directorships have been held with the AVI Frontier Fund LLP an investment vehicle participating in Vietnamese IPOs, Stratagem Technologies Limited, an algorithmic sports trading company, and in Gibraltar he served on the board of Hilltop Funds PCC Limited which invested in a wide array of Hedge Funds from late 2009 until early 2017. Prior to joining Altis Partners he held Directorship positions at QCM Limited and Sabre Fund Management Ltd both focusing on futures trading strategies.
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Alex BrunwinPrincipal and CTO
Alex Brunwin has 30 years’ experience in the financial sector, with particular focus on technology and systematic strategies. Since 2000, Alex has been a Director and Principal of Altis Partners, initially at Altis Partners London Limited and then Jersey since 2006 at Altis Partners (Jersey) Limited. Current directorships in Jersey also include cyber security and technology firm Defence Logic and software development business Vertix. In 1998 and 1999 prior to joining Altis Partners (Jersey) Limited, Alex worked as an external consultant for Banque Paribas, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, SBC Warburg Dillon Reed and Link Asset & Securities. He served as Director of Information Technology at Quality Capital Management from 1996 to 1998. From 1994 to 1996 he provided consultancy to Credit Lyonnais, Paine Webber, Midas, UBS and Paribas Capital Markets Tokyo. From 1992 to 1994, Alex was employed as analyst / programmer at Sabre Fund Management, having graduated in 1991 with BSc Hons in Physics from the University of Bristol.
Over 20 years of regulated operational experience managing institutional assets
Built on proprietary research and disciplined risk management principles
About Us
Altis is a multi-award-winning Investment Manager which uses proprietary research to systematically manage futures portfolios.
Our experienced and professional team is built on passion, exceptional talent, a strong commitment to scientific inquiry and client service.
Our research-driven systematic approach to investment is designed to be scalable, secure, consistent, and reactive to changing market conditions.
Altis is regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission, a member of the National Futures Association and registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
History
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2022
Altis Partners founded
Global Futures Portfolio launched
GAIM award: Top Performing CTA
Relocation to Jersey, Channel Islands
Voted 6th in Barron's Top 100 Hedge Funds
Assets peak at $1.6bn peak AUM
PureTrend launched
Major re-factoring of Global Futures Portfolio as multi-strategy systematic macro
Winner: HFM European Hedge Fund Performance Awards, CTA under $1bn
Charles McGarraugh joined Altis as CIO
Altis Enhanced Macro launched
Altis Enhanced Macro
A fully systematic global macro futures strategy that dynamically allocates both long and short exposures across futures markets such as bonds, short interest rates, and commodities in an attempt to consistently capitalise on new trading opportunities as they arise.
The approach is simple in concept: read the markets, update our predicted returns for each asset in our investable universe, and carefully rebalance the portfolio in an attempt to optimise the ongoing trade-off between risk and expected returns.
Our prediction indicators are based on persistent and well researched sources of expected alpha: trend, yield, and cross-asset valuation.
When taken together and coupled with a sophisticated optimisation and risk management framework, we believe a persistent edge is possible – an edge that is particularly well suited to the current market environment. An edge that should deliver a stream of uncorrelated returns driven by flux and uncertainty as markets adjust to new macro realities.
The program focuses on only the most liquid futures markets, thereby accessing the benefits of an active trading approach while keeping transaction costs to a minimum, even at large scale.
In an environment where the traditional 60/40 allocation model appears to be changing, Altis Enhanced Macro offers investors an alterative strategy to diversify their portfolios.
Bespoke Product Solutions
Altis Partners has a proven track record in creating a range of bespoke product solutions across Exchange Traded Derivatives.
Providing customised strategies and specialist advisory or management solutions, Altis can cater for your individual investment, risk, liquidity and return requirements as well as providing flexibility around your required investment route, whether that be Fund or Single Managed Account structuring.
In addition to Altis’ +20 years futures trading experience, Altis can provide tailored products and expertise in the increasingly popular Cryptocurrency industry.
"Our mission, which will never change, is quite simply to be the best investors, traders, and students of the market that we can possibly be."Charlie McGarraugh, Chief Investment Officer
Our Team
Stephen HedgecockPrincipal & CEO
Alex BrunwinPrincipal and CTO
Charles McGarraughPrincipal & CIO
Joel GibbonsDeputy CIO
Simon HarmanDirector of Operations & Governance
Kenny MulliganDirector of Compliance & Risk
Emma McCueHead of Investor Relations
Mark TylerDirector of Trading
Sharon BaxterExecutive Personal Assistant
Vertix IT ConsultancyTechnology
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