PIONEERING SOLUTIONS

Two decades of data-driven, global derivatives expertise

PIONEERING SOLUTIONS

Two decades of data-driven, global derivatives expertise

About Us

SAGEWOOD IS A LEADING ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT FIRM FOCUSED ON DELIVERING LONG-TERM VALUE ACROSS A RANGE OF MARKET ENVIRONMENTS

Our team has extensive investment experience managing absolute return, customizable, and tax-aware strategies across equity, fixed-income, and derivative markets.

Established

2015

AUM

$2.5B+

Our History

  • ONE

    2022

    Sagewood launches its Absolute Return and Customized Solutions Platform to deliver an expanded suite of investment solutions for institutional and private wealth clients.

  • ONE

    2019

    Sagewood continues to grow its distribution network by establishing key partnerships with the largest global wealth management firms.

  • ONE

    2016

    Sagewood is established in conjunction with Stifel’s acquisition of Barclays Wealth and Investment Management Americas, and subsequently spins out as an independent, employee-owned firm.

  • ONE

    2012

    Our chairman and CIO transition to Barclays. Our CIO relaunches the flagship strategy at the new firm, which is once again seeded by our Chairman’s clients.

  • ONE

    2007

    CIO launches our flagship volatility strategy while in the Alternative Investments Division of Credit Suisse. Our Chairman’s wealth management clients are early investors in the strategy.

Our Approach

DIFFERENTIATED RISK MANAGEMENT

Across a range of asset classes and macroeconomic environments

Present

Today, we leverage our world-class platform to drive automation and collaboration at all levels of our organization. Our proprietary data and infrastructure platform provides a unified framework to simulate liquid strategies across different time frames, scale our investment presence across a broad set of investment themes and securities, and provide comprehensive execution, risk, operations, and compliance oversight.

Past

Two decades ago, we encountered a dearth of off-the-shelf systems for managing large options data sets and implementing data-driven options and volatility strategies. This drove substantial investments in our core infrastructure and technology platform, which we strive to enhance every day.

OUR RISK MANAGEMENT APPROACH

Thoughtful, disciplined, and rigorous risk management is at the core of our investment philosophy. For almost two decades, our approach has sought to minimize undesirable correlations to major asset classes and to preserve capital during the most significant volatility events.

Our Strategies

Our strategies employ a disciplined data-driven framework, informed by our deep understanding of financial markets.

TAX-AWARE AND CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS PLATFORM
ABSOLUTE RETURN PLATFORM

Our Tax-Aware and Customized Solutions platform is tailored to address specific client goals and after-tax outcomes. We collaborate with financial advisors and clients to ensure that our investment solutions align with their unique asset allocation and after-tax return objectives.

Our strategies are generally collateralized with cash, concentrated single-stocks, traditional or legacy tax-loss harvesting equity portfolios, or fixed-income investments.

“Our platform offers a unique capability to utilize options strategies in tandem with long/short equity extension overlays to generate income and mitigate risk while reigniting the tax benefits of otherwise passive client portfolios.”

– Defina Maluki, CIO

HEDGING AND RISK MITIGATION STRATEGIES

  • Tail risk and convexity strategies
  • Volatility, beta, and risk premia hedging strategies
  • Exchange fund replication and other diversification strategies

CARRY/INCOME/YIELD GENERATION

  • Single stock and index option overlay strategies
  • Volatility Risk Premium (VRP) strategies

QUANTITATIVE EQUITY PORTFOLIOS

  • Long-only benchmark-plus, tax-loss harvesting equity portfolios
  • Long/short extension tax-loss harvesting equity portfolios

Our Absolute Return Platform offers a global, multi-asset, multi-strategy approach that seeks to deliver consistent returns with low correlations to traditional asset classes.

We incorporate a robust risk framework, with comprehensive hedging against significant market dislocations during periods of high market volatility.

Our platform seeks to generate positive returns regardless of market conditions, offering our clients stability and peace of mind in their investment journey.

Our multi-strategy approach seeks to deploy the following Strategies dynamically:

RELATIVE VALUE

  • Equity Volatility
  • Fixed Income Volatility

EQUITY STRATEGIES

  • Market Neutral

MACRO STRATEGIES

  • Fixed Income Arbitrage

TAX-AWARE AND CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS PLATFORM

Our Tax-Aware and Customized Solutions platform is tailored to address specific client goals and after-tax outcomes. We collaborate with financial advisors and clients to ensure that our investment solutions align with their unique asset allocation and after-tax return objectives.

Our strategies are generally collateralized with cash, concentrated single-stocks, traditional or legacy tax-loss harvesting equity portfolios, or fixed-income investments.

“Our platform offers a unique capability to utilize options strategies in tandem with long/short equity extension overlays to generate income and mitigate risk while reigniting the tax benefits of otherwise passive client portfolios.”

– Defina Maluki, CIO

HEDGING AND RISK MITIGATION STRATEGIES

  • Tail risk and convexity strategies
  • Volatility, beta, and risk premia hedging strategies
  • Exchange fund replication and other diversification strategies

CARRY/INCOME/YIELD GENERATION

  • Single stock and index option overlay strategies
  • Volatility Risk Premium (VRP) strategies

QUANTITATIVE EQUITY PORTFOLIOS

  • Long-only benchmark-plus, tax-loss harvesting equity portfolios
  • Long/short extension tax-loss harvesting equity portfolios

ABSOLUTE RETURN PLATFORM

Our Absolute Return Platform offers a global, multi-asset, multi-strategy approach that seeks to deliver consistent returns with low correlations to traditional asset classes.

We incorporate a robust risk framework, with comprehensive hedging against significant market dislocations during periods of high market volatility.

Our platform seeks to generate positive returns regardless of market conditions, offering our clients stability and peace of mind in their investment journey.

Our multi-strategy approach seeks to deploy the following Strategies dynamically:

RELATIVE VALUE

  • Equity Volatility
  • Fixed Income Volatility

EQUITY STRATEGIES

  • Market Neutral

MACRO STRATEGIES

  • Fixed Income Arbitrage

Our People

ENDURING COMMITMENT

To our clients, people, and values

At Sagewood, we foster a culture that encourages collaboration, innovation, and creativity.

OUR TEAM

Our team brings together several decades of collective investment experience, offering a wealth of knowledge and expertise in derivatives and quantitative portfolio management.

Our partnership with our clients goes beyond portfolio management and reporting. We work collaboratively to educate our investors on our research, investment views, and the current state of the financial markets.

Our Philosophy

Integrity

We uphold an unwavering commitment to ethics, honesty, and fairness in all interactions with clients, colleagues, and stakeholders. We are transparent in all our communications and act in our clients’ best interests, maintaining trust through reliable accountability.

Discipline

We design and implement our investment strategies using a rigorous, repeatable data-driven framework. We value patience and diligence in portfolio management and follow a well-defined risk management framework to achieve consistent long-term returns.

Perserverance

We are proud of our extensive history of navigating turbulent markets. We believe in staying focused on our long-term goals and remaining steadfast in our approach regardless of external pressures or distractions. Our resilience and commitment to our investment objectives and strategies, our willingness to learn, and our adaptation to evolving market and economic conditions are essential to our culture.

Leadership Team

Defina Maluki, CFA

Chief Investment Officer,
Managing Partner, Co-Founder

William J. Belleville Jr., CFA

Chairman, Co-Founder

David Travis

Chief Operating Officer,
Chief Financial Officer

Contact Us

Sagewood Asset Management LP
100 Park Avenue, 22nd Floor
New York, NY 10017

Phone: (212) 231-8770
Fax: (212) 221-3580
info@sagewoodam.com