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Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:

Amplitude Capital, a large Swiss-based CTA shop, is making a few restructuring changes and is expanding its research team.

Karsten Schroeder, head of Amplitude, told Opalesque that he and three other working partners, who own the majority of the business, are in the process of buying back a "significant portion" of the shares from its passive shareholders. The actual execution will take place in the very near future.

"It shows the strong dedication of the management team to drive the business forward," he said, adding that it also avoids the common pitfall of business owners becoming complacent, and underlines management's dedication to the business and its strong belief in it.

Amplitude Capital, which was founded in 2004, currently offers three fully systematic CTA programs, manages a total of $1.15bn in AuM and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. Karsten Schroeder, a German national, is the Chairman of Amplitude Capital and the portfolio manager for the three funds. Prior to that, he was with McKinsey where he was involved in a number of key corporate finance projects involving blue chip European clients (see his 2010 Opalesque TV interview here).

Amplitude’s Caymans-domiciled flagship fund, the ......................

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