How We Select Quant Teams & Funds
We continuously look for exceptional quant teams and funds, building relationships long before there's a reason to invest. Most never become introductions, but the intelligence compounds.
We form our own conviction before anything else. We test where returns come from, how durable the edge is, and reject anything that doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
We investigate every layer, from performance and risk controls to operations, governance, and the people behind the strategy. Every weakness is documented.
We only consider opportunities that genuinely fit. We assess objectives, liquidity, risk, capacity, and portfolio overlap. If nothing fits, we recommend nothing.
We introduce managers only when conviction is high and both sides agree. Every introduction comes with our written assessment, including strengths, risks, and what we couldn't verify. The relationship is then direct.
We stay close over time. Markets evolve, managers change, and our judgment improves with every outcome. The network gets stronger because we never stop paying attention.
INVESTORS CHOOSE THEIR RISK APPETITE
Three risk levels. Shield. Core. Alpha.
Shield
6-15%
Capital preservation
Core
15-25%
Systematic compounding
Alpha
20-40%
High conviction returns
qUANT TEAMS AND FUNDS
Request insights
Ted Capital introduces you to quant teams and systematic funds you cannot find on your own. Based on your risk preference.
As part of that introduction, you get access to their insights and tear sheets, performance history, drawdown analysis, risk metrics, and how the strategy holds up when markets turn.
Not a summary. The full picture, before you decide.
HOW WE WORK
The process is built to say no.
We look
We keep track of the market all the time, whether or not anyone is currently looking to invest. That means established funds and where they are on capacity. Teams that have just left a bigger firm. Trading groups weighing up whether outside money is worth the hassle. Managers who've run their own money for years and never produced a deck. Most of these conversations have no purpose when they happen. We have them anyway, and we stay in touch. Circumstances change.
We check the strategy
Before money is discussed, we form our own view. Why does this make money? Who's on the other side of these trades, and why are they there? What conditions would stop it working, and have those already arrived? We look at the shape of the returns more than the size of them. How bad were the bad periods? How much of the whole record comes from a handful of good months? Does it just track something you could buy far more cheaply elsewhere? Most funds end here. Usually not because anything's wrong, but because the returns turn out to be something ordinary in an unusual wrapper.
We dig into the details
We go through the performance line by line and check it against how the fund says it trades. Anything that doesn't add up gets investigated. We look at how risk is controlled, whether limits actually stop the fund doing something, or just get written up afterwards. Then the unglamorous part: who holds the money, who values it, who audits it, who the fund trades through, what happens if a key person leaves, and whether there's any regulatory history. We also just talk to the team, at length. Hard questions get asked directly, and how someone answers matters as much as what they say. Dodging a fair question is enough on its own.
We match
A strong fund or quant team isn't right for every investor. How quickly can you get your money out, and does that suit you? Is there enough room left in the fund for the amount you'd invest? Does the level of ups and downs fit what you can live with? What about fees, reporting, currency, and where the fund is based? We also look at what you already hold. A fund that does more or less what your existing managers do adds cost, not diversification, however good it is on its own. If nothing fits, nothing gets proposed.
We introduce
We only raise a fund's name with you if that manager has agreed to it. The introduction comes with our written view: what they do, why we believe it, what we think is fragile, and what we couldn't verify. After that you deal with each other directly. We don't sit in the middle, filter messages, or negotiate. You do your own checks and use your own advisers. Our view is an opinion, a considered one, but not advice and not a substitute for your own process.
We stay in touch
We stay close afterwards, whether you invested or not. Teams change. Funds fill up. Strategies stop working. A manager we said no to three years ago might be exactly right now, and what you're looking for rarely stays the same either. It's also how we find out whether our judgment was any good. We know which introductions worked and which didn't, and the second group teaches us more.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What Ted Capital does?
Ted Capital finds strong investment funds and quant teams that most investors never hear about, and introduces them to the right investors.