Pioneers in systematic investing.
Aspect Capital uses a proven investment approach built on empirical evidence and overseen by creative minds. The team provides innovative investment solutions that generate diversified performance for investors.
A trusted team of specialists
Anthony Todd and Martin Lueck founded UK-based Aspect Capital in 1997 and bring together over 55 years of combined experience in quantitative investing. As pioneers of systematic investing, they were early adopters of computerised trading strategies. The company employs over 120 investment professionals with a wide range of backgrounds and unique skills.
Over 120 investment professionals
Aspect’s team brings a broad range of skills, experience, and perspectives, supporting robust decision‑making and innovation.
Disciplined and repeatable process
The team applies a quantitative and systematic, model‑based investment approach underpinned by a thoroughly researched and evolving set of rules.
Research and development
Ongoing research and development drive innovation for investors, supported by the team’s creativity and strong problem‑solving capabilities.
"We are very proud to be in partnership with CFS since 2010. We are as committed today as we were over 15 years ago to providing the Australian market with access to innovative, systematic investment solutions."
Anthony Todd, Founder & CEO at Aspect Capital
Aspect Capital’s investment approach
Aspect Capital believes in a statistical and evidence-based approach to investing. The company combines scientific principles and leading-edge technology to identify predictable and statistically measurable behaviours in market prices.
Each idea is tested, researched and reviewed. Findings are critically evaluated every step of the way to uncover human behaviours within the data that create market effects and provide persistence. Even the weakest effects can be identified by Aspect’s disciplined trading and sophisticated algorithms. Successful ideas are then built into the robust investment process. The result is innovative investment solutions that generate diversifying performance for investors.
Aspect funds
Both solutions benefit from a scientific investment methodology.
Aspect Diversified Futures Fund
An innovative managed futures fund that provides an alternative source of growth and is equipped to perform in a variety of market conditions.
Aspect Absolute Return Fund
A growth fund that is designed to target a stable return profile.
Meet the team
Co-founders, Anthony Todd and Martin Lueck, set out to create a research-led business where people would feel excited about coming to work in the morning. This ambition stands true and has attracted a team of highly specialised but diverse talents, all dedicated to a collegiate style of working that values results above individual egos.
Anthony Todd
- Chief Executive Officer
Anthony Todd
- Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Todd co-founded Aspect in September 1997 and is the Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Todd chairs Aspect’s Governance Board, which is responsible for reviewing, challenging and approving the firm’s business and financial strategy and for monitoring the risk and compliance frameworks, chairs the Executive Committee, which determines Aspect’s overall corporate and strategic direction and is responsible for executing the business strategy and chairs Aspect’s Investment Committee, which is responsible for reviewing and approving all research leading to new or improved trading strategies and for the ongoing monitoring of existing strategies and client portfolios.
Before establishing Aspect, Anthony worked at Adam, Harding and Lueck Limited (AHL), Mars & Co. and UBS. He holds a B.A. in Physics from Oxford University and an M.B.A. from INSEAD in France.
Razvan Remsing, CFA
- Chief Product Strategist
Razvan Remsing, CFA
- Chief Product Strategist
Razvan Remsing is Aspect Capital’s Chief Product Strategist and a member of the Investment Committee. The Investment Committee is responsible for reviewing and approving all research leading to new or improved trading strategies, as well as for the ongoing monitoring of existing strategies and client portfolios. Razvan’s role spans the product development and research functions at Aspect. He chairs Aspect’s Product Committee and heads the Investment Solutions team, who provide quantitative expertise to clients on the investment process and the development of new product ideas. His primary responsibility is client engagement on matters relating to strategies, products, performance, and research. Prior to joining Aspect in 2010, Razvan worked at Skybound Capital, Clear Horizon Capital, and PeregrineQuant in various quantitative research roles. He graduated with distinctions in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Physics from Rhodes University (2001). He holds a BSc (Hons) in Theoretical Physics from Wits University (2002) and an MSc in Financial Mathematics from the University of Cape Town (2004), and he is a CFA Charterholder.
Chris Reeve
- Chief Investment Officer
Chris Reeve
- Chief Investment Officer
Mr. Reeve is Aspect Capital’s Chief Investment Officer and a member of the Executive Board. In his role, he is responsible for all investment areas of the business: research, trading risk and investment solutions, providing leadership and strategic direction to the investment process as a whole. He is a member of the Investment Committee, which is responsible for reviewing and approving all research leading to new or improved trading strategies and for the ongoing monitoring of existing strategies and client portfolios.
Mr. Reeve holds a first-class master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Oxford. Mr. Reeve previously served in the British Army as a second lieutenant in the Welsh Guards.
Martin Lueck
- Research Director & President
Martin Lueck
- Research Director & President
Marty co-founded Aspect in September 1997 and is Research Director. He oversees the Research Team responsible for generating and analysing fundamental research hypotheses for development of all Aspect’s investment programmes. Marty is also a member of Aspect’s Investment Committee. He currently serves on the Board of the National Futures Association and as Chair of the Oxford Physics Development Board.
Prior to founding Aspect, Marty was with Adam, Harding and Lueck Limited (AHL), which he co-founded in 1987 with Michael Adam and David Harding. At AHL, Marty was instrumental in developing AHL’s trading systems and approach to research as well as the proprietary software language that provided the platform for all of AHL’s product engineering and implementation. He holds an M.A. in Physics from Oxford University.
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Trend Following: Why?
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Capturing unpredictability: trend following alpha
In this paper, Aspect Capital explore whether it is time to move on from the “Crisis Alpha” label for trend following strategies, and instead think of them in terms of “Unpredictability Alpha”.
Trend following: How?
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