(Hedgeweek) Drawing on decades of experience, Matthew Shaw and Philipp Kallerhoff are founders of Protos Asset Management, a Swiss based cryptocurrency asset manager that brings the investing concepts of value, momentum and volatility to the crypto world in the form of a fully traditionally regulated Cayman Island based fund. Protos was set up in 2017 as the pair came out of a crypto investment business in Canada.
“Protos is an asset manager specialising in cryptocurrencies, using some of the traditional tools of hedge funds to manage risk using classic premia strategies,” says Shaw.
The first closed-end fund was launched in mid-December 2017 and is dedicated two thirds to liquid quantitative strategies and one third to investments in bespoke blockchain assets. On the liquid side, the fund applies proprietary strategies across more than 50 cryptocurrencies, with a minimum of USD100 million in market capitalisation, and uses long and short techniques to trade traditional factors such as value, momentum, size and volatility.
