Chris D.
Senior Partner @ Caxton Associates
About
Co-CIO of Caxton Cadence, a $1.4 billion quantitative long-short equity fund within Caxton Associates. Responsible for investment strategy and risk management. Twenty-year track record of iteration and consistent alpha generation across multiple market regimes. Professional expertise: empirical equity research, signal development, and model design. Particular emphasis on repeatable process, adaptive learning, alignment of quantitative insight with macro context, and scalable constraint-aware systems. Always focused on what ultimately matters—performance. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” Søren Kierkegaard
United Kingdom
London
Investment Management
Hedge Funds, Portfolio Management, Equities, Risk Management, Alternative Investments, Asset Management, Equity Research, Quantitative Analytics, Data Analysis, Investments, Investment Strategies, Valuation, Asset Allocation, Trading, Quantitative Finance
Experience
Senior Partner
Caxton Associates
London, United Kingdom
Senior Partner at Caxton Associates, an award-winning global macro firm. Co-CIO of Caxton Cadence, a $1.4 billion quantitative long-short equity fund.
Senior Portfolio Manager
BTG Pactual
london, united kingdom
Senior Portfolio Manager at BTG Pactual Global Emerging Markets and Macro (GEMM), an award-winning global macro fund. Set up and led the quantitative long-short equity business.
Portfolio Manager
J. Safra Sarasin
london, united kingdom
Head of Berkeley Global Alpha, a hedge fund specialising in quantitative strategies. Headhunted by the Safra family to build a global long-short equity business on their hedge fund platform.
Portfolio Manager
Polygon Global Partners LLP
london, united kingdom
Head of Quantitative Strategies at Polygon, an award-winning multi-strategy hedge fund. Set up and led the firm’s quantitative long-short equity business.
Portfolio Manager
Marshall Wace
Portfolio Manager and Co-Founder at Pembroke Capital Management, a global long-short equity firm, launched in partnership with Marshall Wace.
Portfolio Manager
Northern Trust Asset Management
london, united kingdom
Portfolio Manager in the International Equities Group. (Note: initially Analyst at Julius Baer; entire team was headhunted in 2000.)
Graduate Trainee
Deloitte
London, United Kingdom
Worked on various projects within the firm’s financial services practice before joining an asset management client in 1999.
Education
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Philosophy of Science
First place in graduating class
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