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Warrington Asset Management names Edward den Dooven as managing director and head of Strategic Business Development

Thursday, December 14, 2017
Opalesque Industry Update - Warrington Asset Management, a Dallas-based discretionary macrohedge fund, announced that Edward den Dooven has joined the firm as Managing Director and Head of Strategic Business Development and Investor Relations. Mr. den Dooven, who has been in the hedge fund business for 20 years, is relocating to Dallas from New York to assume his duties immediately.

"We're fortunate to bring on Ed at a time when institutional investors are looking for uncorrelated strategies," said Scott Kimple, founder, principal and portfolio manager of Warrington, which currently has $110 million in assets under management. "Ed's experience and knowledge will enable him to highlight and explain our macro strategy using S&P index options to investors, and take us to the next level."

Mr. den Dooven most recently had been with Lynx Asset Management, where he was in charge of the $6 billion hedge fund's North American marketing and investor relations. He started in the business in 1998 at Och-Ziff Capital Management as a portfolio assistant, moving from there to such firms as LJH Global Investments, Vermillion Asset Management and Vision Investment Management, honing his marketing and client relations expertise.

Mr. den Dooven said Warrington most resembles Vermillion, a relative value, discretionary hedge fund that went from $130 million to over $2 billion while he was a director and head of marketing.

"Warrington is a terrific smaller shop that is truly institutional grade," he said. "Its investment team has been together for 15 years, and after spinning out of Morgan Stanley two years ago, now has the opportunity to expand by offering investors access to its investment strategies through a variety of new vehicles and entities."

Mr. den Dooven said his job will be putting the "great investment team, solid infrastructure and interesting strategy" in front of key investors. "Right now, many investors are thinking about uncorrelated and crisis risk offset strategies, which Warrington has provided for many years. We used to say here's our performance, but now we also take a deeper approach and suggest investors look at how we perform in down markets, as well as fit into their overall portfolio. Our strategy is what investors are looking for right now."

This year the Warrington Strategic Program won a Pinnacle Award, which has recognized excellence in trading in the managed futures space since 2012. The program had a 4.59% return in 2016, and has a 9.85% compounded return since being launched in January 1997. Warrington was affiliated with Morgan Stanley (and its predecessors) for 18 years until it separated in 2015. Kimple, a third-generation Texan, has traded client assets for 27 years.

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