Jeff Malec is a founding partner and CEO of Attain Capital Management (www.AttainCapital.com), and Chief Investment Officer of Attain Portfolio Advisors (www.apa-cta.com).
Attain Capital Management ("Attain") is a specialized asset management firm built upon the belief that an investment portfolio with exposure to alternative investments such as technical based trading systems and managed futures programs can consistently outperform traditional stock, bond, and real estate portfolios. Attain is the only firm who has been solely focused on both trading system and managed futures investments since inception, with a team of six registered brokers with over 93 years of trading system and managed futures experience. Under Mr. Malec’s guidance, Attain has analyzed and reviewed 586 trading systems and 1,055 managed futures programs, authored 372 (and counting) articles and research reports on trading systems and managed futures spanning over 1,515 pages, and have assisted clients in investing over $204 Million into trading systems and managed futures since 2002.
Attain Portfolio Advisors (“APA”) is a registered Commodity Trading Advisor and Commodity Pool Operator managing client assets in two managed account programs and a fund. Each program employs a portfolio of objective, technically-based trading systems and a multidimensional diversification strategy which allots capital to different markets, trading strategies, and time frames. The selection of component strategies, time frames and markets follows a rigorous quantitative analysis that considers the liquidity and volatility of markets traded, types of strategies employed, trade duration, risk of loss, and probability of achieving performance objectives.
Mr. Malec earned the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, CAIA, designation in 2005. The CAIA designation promotes adherence to high standards of professional conduct and certifies one’s mastery of the concepts, tools and practices essential for understanding traditional and modern alternative investment vehicles; including real estate, private equity, commodities, hedge funds and managed futures. www.caia.org