FORT is an alternative investment management firm founded in 1993 exclusively committed to quantitative investment strategies. The firm has offices in Washington D.C. and New York City and manages approximately $4.4BN on behalf of institutional investors globally, including pensions, endowments, foundations and sovereign wealth. Over the firm’s 28 year history, FORT has developed trading strategies in two main areas: quantitative futures and quantitative equities. FORT’s investment philosophy is defined by a deep understanding of market behavior combined with robust statistics to produce systematic methods of capturing market inefficiencies created by flaws in human behavior.
28
Year
History
5
Liquid
Systematic
Offerings
54
Professionals
$4.4BN
in Assets
Under
Management
Yves Balcer
Sanjiv Kumar
Yves Balcer
PH.D., CO-FOUNDER AND PRINCIPAL
Sanjiv Kumar
PH.D., CIO, CO-FOUNDER, AND PRINCIPAL
Alan Marantz
Stuart Bohart
Alan Marantz
Principal
Alan Marantz is a principal at FORT and joined the firm in 2014. He is responsible for firm management and business development.
Prior to joining FORT, Alan was a Managing Director of Business Development at Balestra Capital Partners. From 1991 until January 2008, he grew and managed an array of businesses for Lehman Brothers, where he was a Managing Director. His various roles at Lehman include head of Global Wealth Management, global head of fixed income sales, global head of Foreign Exchange, global head of Liquid Market Sales and head of Fixed Income Asia. He served as a member of the Lehman Brothers Management Committee and on the Executive Committee of the Asset Management business, the Fixed Income Executive Committee, and the Executive Committee of Lehman Brothers Asia.
Stuart Bohart
President