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Denali - A Long Only Equity Strategy

Denali follows a proprietary quantitative process to identify US stocks with positive idiosyncratic price trends. It systematically builds a portfolio of these stocks and applies a systematic risk management framework to this portfolio. The strategy's philosophy is very defensive. Denali only deploys capital when strong uptrends are present. In their absence, like during periods of down markets, it preserves capital by increasing the allocation to cash. The Denali strategy has an asymmetric “long call option” return profile. It cuts short the negative left tail of returns while leaving the positive right tail uncapped.

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Investment Universe

US stocks above $1bn in Market Cap


Strategy Type

Quant Equity - systematic stock picking


Managed By

Ascent Systematic Advisors LLC

Strategy Highlights

Low Minimum Investment $20,000

High Standards

A long-only strategy that holds investments that are gaining with strict risk protocols to release investments that are not

Low Minimum Investment $20,000

Simple and Intelligent

A strategy that has put sophisticated technology behind simple investment philosophy, keep investments that are growing and remove underperformers efficiently

Low Minimum Investment $20,000

Talented Management

A strategy manager who was so good at fine tuning his own portfolio his financial services clients requested he open the strategy to them; he created Denali as the best way for him to invest

This Is Why Denali Is the Right Strategy for You

Denali takes simple investment theory and puts it to work in sophisticated algorithms, taking into account vast amounts of data.

A long-only strategy, Denali seeks to gain opportunities in the market with the simplicity that if an investment doesn’t perform it is removed.

The overall goal is to profit from trends and to eliminate behavioral bias inherent in stock investing, to have systems invest “by the numbers” with a singular focus on gains and risk management.

This makes for simple risk controls implemented within sophisticated systems as well, Denali removes investments going down expediently, historically reducing risk while increasing gains.

Overall, Denali uses big data analysis and the removal of human emotion from the investment process to meet its intended goal of beating the market regardless of market conditions.
 

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HEDGE FUND MANAGER

Marcos Bueno - The Manager Behind Our Denali Hedge Fund Strategy

Marcos Bueno is the founder and CIO of Ascent Systematic Advisors LLC. Previously, he was the CIO at Argon Capital Management, Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager at the London office of Graham Capital, Portfolio Manager at JPMorgan’s proprietary trading desk, and he also worked at Goldman Sachs in the Multi-asset derivatives structuring and in the Power & Gas M&A  teams. Mr. Bueno obtained an MBA with Honors from The Wharton School, holds an MS in Economics and Applied Mathematics from Ecole Polytechnique in France, and a BS and MS in Industrial Engineering from UPM in Spain. He is a marathoner and former national level competitive track & field athlete.

“The number one thing I want to make sure of is that the models are not going to own anything that is going down. That is hard-coded. It is never going to happen. Denali doesn’t care about the market as a whole. It only cares about finding opportunities that meet the criteria for capital deployment. It is a very conservative approach. The bar that we need to clear to put money to work is very high.”

Marcos Bueno
Hedge Fund Manager @ CARL Denali, LLC

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3 Easy Steps to Invest in Our Denali Quant Fund Strategy

Investing in our Denali hedge fund strategy is pretty simple: just create an account, add the strategy to your portfolio and on the next funding cycle you're in.

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Search for offerings that fit your risk and return criteria, create model portfolios, and use the CARL tools to help you identify the best investments for you.

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What Investors Say About CARL

"I didn’t know investments like this existed before finding CARL, and I guess they didn’t for regular investors until now. It provides so many more options, I can now manage my own hedge fund portfolio, diversify my investments and I have the potential to earn a return regardless of market direction."

Chris
CFO, Michigan

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