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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Hedge fund |
| Founded | December 1995 (1995-12) |
| Founder | Aref Karim |
| Headquarters | 3 The Heights. Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, England, KT13 0NY |
| Number of locations | 1 |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Aref Karim (CEO & CIO) |
| Products | Global Diversified Programme, Alpha Financials Programme |
| Website | www |
Quality Capital Management Ltd (often abbreviated as QCM) is a UK-based hedge fund specialising in managed futures. The company was founded by Aref Karim in 1995 and its headquarters is based in Weybridge, Elmbridge, Surrey, England.
History
Quality Capital Management (QCM) is a UK limited liability company incorporated in December 1995 with its head office in Weybridge, Surrey. It is a systematic macro hedge fund manager specialising in managed futures. It manages investments for its clients by applying its proprietary strategies on a diverse set of liquid and listed financial and commodity futures markets traded in major global exchanges. It has partnered with institutions, family offices and high net worths worldwide to manage and enhance its wealth, and managed a portfolio of alternative investments for the world's largest sovereign wealth fund.
QCM is regulated in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority and is registered in the U.S with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission/National Futures Association as a commodity trading advisor and a commodity pool operator.The company was founded by Aref Karim who is its Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer and also carries overall responsibility for its investment strategies and research.
Investment products
QCM offers actively-run systematic global macro solutions to investors. Its investor base is global and largely institutional, sovereigns and pensions.
The company offers products that are liquid and transparent, participating in most economic environments. It currently offers four products. Through an integrated and seamless investment process, it aims to deliver investors a non-correlated source of absolute return ('alpha'). It runs the strategy, including its risk management, in a quantitative and systematic manner. It offers three 'long volatility' investment programmes: the Global Diversified Programme, Alpha Financials Programme, with a total assets under management of $38 million as of September 2016. Aref Karim, Quality Capital Management. Each fund is offshore and each offers managed accounts for larger investments.
In December 1995, QCM's flagship Global Diversified Programme (GDP), commenced trading through managed accounts and established a BVI-domiciled offshore fund, QCM GDP Otus Fund, in June 1999, followed by a U.S feeder fund in February 2009.
Strategies
QCM trades in financial and commodities assets in 115 instruments worldwide. Its strategies are opportunistic and runs a holistic and systematic model-based strategy that treats all assets agnostically. It invests its funds through proprietary strategies that take futures positions in major global exchanges across financial and commodity markets.
QCM uses an allocation model that looks for short-term changes in acceleration. It relies on market diversification, trading a large portfolio of different asset classes, uses few trend-based indicators and its investment process is driven by dynamic asset allocation through the proprietary Advanced Resource Allocator (ARA) model, a proprietary trading system which attempts to try and shift risk away from positions not working in QCM's favor with an algorithm that adjusts position sizes focusing on upside volatility. A risk budget is deployed based on relative opportunities through mainly an asset allocation process.
As markets and technology have changed, QCM's approach to investing has continued to evolve with time. A central point of difference with QCM is its use of a flow-based approach set-up during 2003-05.
See also
References
- ^ "Quality Capital Management". Absolute Returns. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
- "Aref Karim of QCM: from accountant to Hedge fund CEO". Top Traders Unplugged. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - Campbell, Mary (10 May 2010). "Quality Capital Management Launches UCITS III Hedge Fund". FINalternatives. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "EuroHedge Summit 2009". Hedge Fund Conferences & Awards. April 2009. Retrieved 1 November 2014. Aref Karim, Quality Capital Management
- ^ McIntosh, Bill (14 November 2011). "Quality Capital Management". The Hedge Fund Journal. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "The Interview – Aref Karim, Quality Capital Management: "We see managed futures playing a bigger part in a portfolio as uncertainties prevail in traditional markets"". Hedgeweek. 4 April 2010. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Campbell, Mary (22 June 2010). "Q&A: QCM Head Aref Karim Says 'It Pays To Be Patient'". FINalternatives. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Collins, Daniel P. (23 February 2007). "Aref Karim: Allocating profits". Futures. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - Melin, Mark (7 October 2014). "Quality Capital Management Above Water in Diversified Strategy". ValueWalk. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
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