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Stelrox: The coming years will be good for the FX sector

Monday, February 22, 2016

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Buford Scott
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers:

The past few years have been tough for FX managers, but Buford Scott, managing partner at Stelrox, believes now is a good time for currency trading.

Stelrox Capital Management is a London-based emerging alternative asset manager with a focus on currency markets and $10m in AuM. The firm’s investment process is driven primarily by proprietary analytical computer models, which evaluate both quantitative and macro-economic fundamental factors.

Over his career, Scott has been involved in quantitative market modelling, he tells Opalesque. First as an option dealer, then as a proprietary trader and a quant manager. At Standard Chartered Bank, he started a quant trading group that over the course of 10 years grew $2bn in assets. He left in 2014 along with some colleagues to set up Stelrox in collaboration with C-View, which provided the FX management infrastructure and the regulatory cover. They have since focused on a portfolio of medium and low frequency FX strategies.

"I think we are one of very few new entries in the FX sector," he says. "The past few years have been very tough for FX managers with interest rates near zero everywhere, which has curbed volatility and made for difficult trading conditions. We think this is changing and that the c......................

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