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Michele Cocchiglia B. G., Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: An former UN analyst in Geneva and a former research consultant in Luxembourg launched a CTA program built around the notion of market noise and the fractional Brownian motion theory.
Michele Cocchiglia, co-founder of Kelonia Capital Management, has a background in economics, statistics and financial mathematics, and worked most of his career as a risk management expert with the United Nations.
"My responsibilities at the UN included modelling the risks and exposure of various countries to natural disasters (from floods to earthquakes and tsunamis) and providing technical assistance to national governments," he tells Opalesque. "I worked with the UN for about 12 years, including four years in Bangkok, where I was the regional coordinator of a disaster risk assessment initiative in Asia and the Pacific."
At the same time, he was also involved in the managed futures space since 2010, allocating to different CTAs through his family's structure.
In 2016, he started working with Stefan Martinek, the other founder and now the head of research at Kelonia, and asked him to review and validate some of Kelonia's original models and ideas. Martinek has more than 15 years of experience working as an
independent research consultant for systematic funds and CTAs.
In 2017, they decided to form a partnership and to start trading th...................... To view our full article Click here
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