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Universa Investments

www.universa.net

 
Universa is an investment management firm that specializes in tail hedging as a means to enhance long-term equity returns. Universa portfolios are, by construction, exceedingly positively-skewed, robust to extreme risk assumptions, and non-linear to common risk factors (such as beta). Universa`s economic edge derives ultimately from basic behavioral biases. Universa captures that edge through a focused and disciplined investment approach employing positively-skewed payoffs, empirical and fundamental-based option valuation, and trading/providing liquidity against systematic order flow imbalances and resulting mispricings in options markets. Universa was founded in January 2007 by CIO Mark Spitznagel, with over a decade of implementation and cumulative, ...
  • Number of Employees: 25-100
  • Annual Revenue: $10-50 Million
  • www.universa.net
  • 2601 South Bayshore Drive Suite 2030
    Miami, FL USA 33133
  • Phone: 786.483.3140

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