At Praesideo we believe a loss of opportunity is acceptable while a loss of capital is not. Our goal is to deliver exceptional risk-adjusted returns regardless of market direction. Our strategy includes allocating capital to the best long/short equity hedge fund managers available in the world. We accomplish this by carefully constructing our portfolios—balancing risk with return, reward with opportunity, and volatility with capital allocations.

We believe great hedge fund managers are difficult to find and must be discovered through exhaustive research and valuable industry contacts. We place significant emphasis on a hedge fund manager’s investment and research process, leadership and management skills, and overall business model. While we conduct meaningful quantitative analysis to confirm our qualitative analysis of a manager, in the end, we believe hedge fund manager research is more art than science.

We focus on performance and enhance value through our ability to source, analyze, and monitor managers. Our thorough and rigorous process of research and due diligence coupled with our portfolio management experience and expertise have yielded an enviable track record that spans over 15 years.

Our portfolios are carefully constructed based on risk control and capital preservation coupled with our perception of opportunity and return. Assets are allocated to managers within a portfolio in a manner that allows managers to compliment one another, controls risk, and adds value to the overall investment objective. We believe size is usually antithetical to performance. Consequently, we tend to invest our portfolios in small, nimble managers.