Grant Capital Partners employs a discretionary global macro trading strategy using liquid and fixed securities (structured options and securities with fixed or predefined risk). Geoff Grant is the firm’s CIO and Managing Partner. Mr Grant was formerly the global head of proprietary trading, global foreign exchange, and European fixed income trading at Goldman Sachs during his 16 years at Goldman. Mr Grant was also co-founder of Peloton Partners, a London-based hedge fund. Eric Peters holds a seat on the firm’s Investment Committee and chairs the Partnership and Business Committee, having overall responsibility for the firm’s non-portfolio activities.

The Chief Investment Officer and the Investment Committee seek to identify a limited number of investment themes that have established themselves in the market and appear likely to persist. The team evaluates fundamental factors, market developments, technical patterns and trends, and the input from a broad based information network consisting of consultants, strategists, fund managers, business leaders, market makers and their economists.

To express those themes, portfolio managers construct individual macro trades, a large proportion of which are structured options. They seek to profit from a directional movement in the underlying market with returns enhanced and/or risks reduced by such factors as implied volatility and its skew, shifts to volatility curves, entry and exit points and changes in interest rate differentials. We believe the emphasis on structured options should allow the investment team to profit in both rising and declining volatility environments while maintaining fixed downside risk. We believe this approach will allow the risk of large loss to the portfolio to be truncated in relation to the potential for upside gain.

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