| Name | Title | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|
Alison Landis |
General Counsel | Profile |
First Southwest Company's Correspondent Clearing Services provides fully disclosed trade execution, clearing and back office services.
Miri Technologies is a Fremont, CA-based company in the Financial Services sector.
Universa is an investment management firm that specializes in tail hedging as a means to enhance long-term equity returns. Universa portfolios are, by construction, exceedingly positively-skewed, robust to extreme risk assumptions, and non-linear to common risk factors (such as beta). Universa`s economic edge derives ultimately from basic behavioral biases. Universa captures that edge through a focused and disciplined investment approach employing positively-skewed payoffs, empirical and fundamental-based option valuation, and trading/providing liquidity against systematic order flow imbalances and resulting mispricings in options markets. Universa was founded in January 2007 by CIO Mark Spitznagel, with over a decade of implementation and cumulative, incremental development of its focused, positive asymmetric investment approach. Universa has thus created an innovative investment niche and risk management methodology within an increasingly homogeneous industry. Universa is currently registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Without a keen sensor, you might reach the conclusion that all wealth management firms are sort of similar. We think that would be a mistake. At Aspiriant, we`ve invested a vast amount of thought and energy into structuring our firm to be unique – and better. Aspiriant`s clients benefit from the intellectual ferocity, loyalty and passion of our people. You see, Aspiriant is built to attract the most talented people in wealth management and make them owners, so they stay forever. We`ve structured our firm to look and operate like no other in the business and to create a phenomenal experience for the people we serve. Every client gets institutional-grade investment management, masterminded by our deep in-house research team. From there, we add some of the most meticulous and invigorating financial planning you can find, performed by our own dedicated team of caring specialists. There is much more, if and when you need it: tax management, estate planning, philanthropy, and more.
Investment managers often excel at thinking creatively but fail to act on their ideas consistently. Computers and models are the opposite – they aren’t creative – but they can enforce disciplined testing and implementation. Our investment philosophy is to utilize the strengths of each. Our investment team generates ideas for identifying cheap or expensive stocks, drawing on academic work in accounting and behavioral finance as well our own internal research. We use a quantitative process to test and implement these ideas, removing emotion from buy and sell decisions. Blending fundamental research with systematic implementation is critical because even the most talented investors struggle to remove emotional and cognitive biases from their decisions.