Daniel Weston was a successful teenage IT entrepreneur before launching a career in asset management, and founding his systematic global macro hedge fund, Aimed Capital, in September 2013 with his own and family office seed capital. At the age of 18 he started an IT company which he sold five years later, resulting in a significant liquidity event. Having traded stocks already as a teenager, he then decided to put this capital to work and turn his full focus on his lifelong passion of investing.
Mr. Weston then built a strong track record trading while working as an assistant portfolio manager under the ex-head of the Macquarie Bank Germany, and predicted the bottom of the equity market in 2009. His experience led to the belief and investment philosophy that growth and inflation drive asset classes, and are therefore a key element of successful global macro investing. He utilized his programming skills to develop a dynamic rule-based system that models global growth and inflation trends as the base of his investment decisions and to minimize human error.
In this Opalesque.TV video profile, learn about:
- Building long-term growth and inflation models from 2007-2009 lead to early success
- Predicting the bottom of the equity market in 2009
- Growth and inflation drives asset classes
- Finding institutional seed investors
- Expectations of a family office investor base
- Risk management
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Daniel Weston was a successful teenage IT entrepreneur before launching a career in asset management, and founding his systematic global macro hedge fund, Aimed Capital, in September 2013 with his own and family office seed capital. At the age of 18 he started an IT company which he sold five years later, resulting in a significant liquidity event. Having traded stocks already as a teenager, he then decided to put this capital to work and turn his full focus on his lifelong passion of investing.
Mr. Weston then built a strong track
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