Matthew Hansen

Senior Management and member of Risk Committee for NYC based institutional registered investment advisor.

• Increased firm revenue by identifying and securing new business opportunities.
• Participated in recruitment efforts to attract and develop top talent to the firm.
• Responsible for underwriting investment commitments, new business ventures, and strategic partnerships.
• Authored, published, and disseminated research and marketing content for proprietary investment products.
• Responsible for legal, tax, audit and operations for APM Thematic Equity Fund (long biased 506(c) fund). Managed trade execution, administrator, custodian, front and back office.

Established hedge fund for crypto and blockchain based assets for friends and family.

• Authored and executed all risk, custody, regulatory, and compliance protocols.
• Realized ITD performance of -26.5% against benchmark BTC -48%

Managing partner and portfolio manager of NYC based equity relative value hedge fund with $30mm in AUM

• Originated arbitrage strategies within global equity and hybrid equity universe.
• Responsible for risk, legal, audit, tax, compliance and operations.
• Realized ITD CAGR of 3.7% vs. HFRX relative value index of 2.8% ITD.

Responsible for $8 billion USD of Swiss Re balance sheet allocated to equities across fundamental long, fundamental long-short, convertible arbitrage, statistical arbitrage, volatility dispersion, and variable annuity reinsurance.

• Founded the equity effort with a commitment of Swiss Re balance sheet, risk capacity, and performance payout.
• Responsible for recruiting, risk, operations, origination, compliance, and management of all global equity content.
• In three years grew revenues from $0 to $360mm in 2008/

Head of US Equity Structured Products at Lehman Brothers and various responsibilities within Morgan Stanley US Equity Derivatives business

• Originated distributed equity-linked structured product for institutions and retail.
• Managed corporate derivative team responsible for put writing, concentrated equity hedging, and convertible related financing for Lehman Brothers corporate clients.
• Managed concentrated equity hedging for foundations, endowments and high net worth family offices for Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers clients.