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Parker Global Strategies (PGS) is a both a fund of hedge funds (FoHF) manager and a manager of managers, providing customized FoHFs for hedge funds, foreign exchange, and managed futures. Our firm provides access to a broad spectrum of alternative investment strategies along with independent, state-of-the-art risk management oversight.
Parker Global Strategies currently has 15 professionals and has advised on the placement of over U.S. $1.75 billion since our inception in 1995. Our clients include major financial institutions and private investors from North America, Asia, South Africa, and Europe. Our clients’ portfolios may be focused on a specific sector of hedge fund investing or broadly diversified to include global fixed income, global equities, foreign exchange, and commodities. We select top managers in a particular market niche to implement each strategy.
We structure investments with managers in managed accounts or in FoHFs structures, providing Parker Global Strategies with control and the discretion to adjust risk exposure. Since our inception PGS has designed and managed 23 multi-manager hedge fund programs. PGS invests in both managed accounts and hedge fund structures with underlying hedge fund managers. Where we have a managed account a a hedge fund manager PGS provides daily risk oversight including reconciling all positions for each account, providing an independent mark-to-market to verify valuations, calculating the estimated daily net asset value, and assessing risk through the application of both proprietary and third party risk measurement analytics. PGS also analyzes risk for our direct investments in hedge funds and at the aggregate FoHF level. Here, PHS also applies proprietary and third party risk analytics for risk measurement.
MISSION
Parker Global Strategies’ mission is to
be a successful, entrepreneurial, and team-driven money management firm whose
niche is developing, implementing, and managing hedge fund strategies across a
broad range of asset classes. We strive for vision, integrity, and excellence in
all aspects of our business including our commitment to and achievement of
client success; our conservative, but creative culture; our innovative products;
our employees; and our professional advisors.
CORE COMPETENCE AND EDGE
Parker Global Strategies’ core
competence is the combined expertise of its seasoned management team whose
skills include research, trading, portfolio structuring, risk management and
operations. Particular strengths include:
principals' success in allocating to newer managers since 1990;
application of industry ‘best practices" risk measurement, monitoring, and management techniques which also strengthen our team's due diligence skills;
global depth and breadth of hedge fund managers composing PGS' proprietary "Short List";
asset size works to our advantage, enabling PGS to allocate to smaller but outstanding hedge funds below the radar screen for many of the very large FoHF allocators;
strong global network for sourcing managers and information;
development of industry-recognized manager indexes.
INVESTMENT PHILOSOPHY
Diversification
Diversification across
markets, managers, and strategies, but not too much!
Transparency
Balancing information requirements with strategy, hedge fund manager
needs, and usefullness.
Risk Management
PGS adheres to best practices for the industry which require independent operational
oversight,
state-of-the-art risk measurement techniques and disciplined risk management.
Commitment
Certain strategies, managers and markets may be volatile. A successful program
requires complex portfolio engineering and commitment to the program, its
structure and managers over a reasonable time horizon.
Analysis & Solid
Judgment
Success demands rigorous
qualitative and quantitative analysis in selecting markets, managers and
strategies along with the solid judgment that comes with experience.
INVESTMENT
PROCESS
PGS prides itself on its investment process which we have built on our
strengths: proprietary strategy, manager, and market research emphasizing both a
top-down (strategy selection) and bottom-up (manager selection) approach; asset
allocation techniques; structuring and transaction expertise, and independent
risk management oversight.
We use committees to incorporate a team-oriented and cross disciplinary approach to portfolio design, implementation, and risk management. Committee members are senior professionals bringing a specialized and complementary skill set to the investment process. Please proceed to our Investment Process page to learn more.
