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 $6.2BN on behalf of institutional investors globally, including pensions, endowments, foundations and sovereign wealth. Over the firm’s 27 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.
27
Year
History
5
Liquid
Systematic
Offerings
65
Professionals
$6.2BN
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
Stu Bohart is President of FORT and joined the firm in 2018. He is responsible for firm management and business development.
Prior to joining FORT, Stu was President of the Liquid Markets Division at Fortress Investment Group where he was responsible for Liquid Markets business infrastructure, sales and marketing, and development of new investment strategies and served on the Fortress Management and Operating Committees. From 1997 until 2010, Stu worked in a variety of capacities at Morgan Stanley. His roles at Morgan Stanley include co-head of Global Investment Management, global head of Prime Brokerage, and Portfolio Manager for a multi-strategy hedge fund. He served as a member of the Morgan Stanley Management Committee. Early in his career, Stu held trading and portfolio management positions at Cargill, Harvard Management Company, and Bankers Trust. He has lived and worked in the PRC, Japan, and the UK.
Stu graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in economics and Asian studies.