Alan Snyder is founder and managing partner of Shinnecock Partners.
In an interview with Mary Campbell of FINalternatives, Alan Snyder, founder and managing partner of Los Angeles-based Shinnecock Partners, an alternative investment management firm, discusses Shinnecock’s investment process which is driven by three tasks.
“We scour the world for the best managers. We construct a portfolio of those managers, carefully interlacing them together using the principles of modern portfolio theory. We manage the resulting portfolio through time,” Synder says in the Q&A with Campbell. “Steps one and two must be interactive. Interestingly, the absolute return and risk profile of a manager is not the sole factor. The critical ingredient is the pattern of returns and how each manager interacts with the others so that that overall combination delivers the most consistent returns and modest volatility, which is our objective.
“Guiding all of our efforts are a series of über-principles, like protecting capital, being flexible and being wary of highly leveraged strategies, to name a few.”
Shinnecock was recently named the Best Managed Futures CTA Fund in North America by World Financemagazine.
