Positive Asymmetry
Strategy design emphasizes upside participation while seeking to reduce losses during less favorable market conditions.
Intended for Qualified Eligible Persons (QEPs) and other eligible institutional investors. Not for retail distribution. This is not an offer to sell or solicitation to invest.
Systematic multi-strategy portfolios
Disciplined systematic investing for positively asymmetric market participation.
Vanquish Alternative Asset Management (VAAM) constructs systematic investment programs designed around historically favorable market entry conditions, risk controls, and dynamic diversification.
Firm & strategy overview
Systematic portfolio management for institutional and individual investors.
Conditional Entries
Wait for verified pattern and trend setups before committing portfolio risk.
Actively Manage Risk
Monitor volatility, correlations, volume, and beta at security, strategy, and portfolio levels.
Flexible Access
Offer fund and separately managed account structures across three different return-risk portfolios.
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Systematic investment programs
Investment philosophy
Built around recurring market behavior, patience, and disciplined implementation.
Recurring Patterns
Investor and market behavior can form patterns and trends that are identified, verified, and systematically implemented.
Historically Favorable Conditions
The investment process waits for higher quality market entry conditions rather than maintaining constant exposure(s).
Conditional Diversification
Portfolio construction focuses on how relationships behave under specific conditions, not only steady-state correlations.
Investment profiles
Two portfolio profiles powered by systematic strategy engines.
Profile
Role
Strategy Mix
VAAM Balanced
VB
Core alternative allocation profile for investors seeking a balanced systematic mandate.
Conditional Long Equity plus Portfolio Diversifier strategies.
VAAM Opportunistic
VO
Higher-conviction profile for investors seeking a more assertive systematic allocation.
Uses both systematic strategies with an opportunistic implementation profile.
Systematic investment process
Disciplined workflow from signal detection through risk management.
The process monitors more than 70 markets, waits for "fat pitch" entry points, tests diversification relationships, sizes risk, and manages positions with defined stop-loss and profit-target levels.
Monitor Opportunities
Pattern and trend setups across indices, financials, commodities, energies, currencies, metals and sectors.
Construct Portfolio
Correlation-adjusted risk parity position weightings with expected VaR and volatility controls.
Manage Risk and Return
Long entries at historical dip levels, short entries at historical bounce levels, and dynamic P&L risk overlay.
Risk framework
Risk controls are integrated before, during, and after trade entry.
Exposure Monitoring
Volatility, correlations, volume, and beta are monitored at the individual security, strategy, and portfolio levels.
Position Sizing
Collinearity-aware sizing helps avoid unintended concentration when multiple opportunities share common drivers.
Trade-Level Discipline
Stop-loss and profit-target orders are incorporated as core components of systematic implementation.
Cash as a Position
A program may remain in cash (or cash equivalents) when historically favorable entry opportunities are not present.
Institutional infrastructure
Fund and SMA structures supported by Hurricane Capital Advisors.
Risk OversightPortfolio management oversight and risk discipline.
ComplianceInstitutional grade compliance infrastructure.
24 Hour Trading DeskOperational support across global market sessions.
Capital Introduction and Tech SupportPlatform allows for institutional access and quality scaling.
Leadership Team
Experienced leadership across research, portfolio construction, risk management, and operations.
Peter Ceko
Chief Executive OfficerCo-Founder
30+ years in financial services, including sales and trading desks focused on derivative products at major Wall Street firms.
Peter Ceko
Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder
Peter has 30+ years of experience in the Financial Services Industry where he headed Sales and Trading Desks focusing on Derivative Products at major Wall Street Firms including Kidder Peabody, Lehman Securities, Nomura Securities, and Societe Generale. Peter's clients included major Financial Institutions, Hedge Funds, and CTAs. Peter graduated from Harvard with a degree in Economics with Honors and received an MBA from the University of Chicago with a specialization in Finance. Peter holds Series 3, 7, and 63 licenses.
Brooks Ritchey
Chief Investment OfficerCo-Founder
30+ years of asset management and trading experience, including portfolio management and absolute return strategy construction at various investment firms.
Brooks Ritchey
Chief Investment Officer
Co-Founder
Brooks has 30+ years of asset management and trading experience. Most recently, Brooks was Chairman and Portfolio Manager at K2 Advisors, a $10+ billion division within Franklin Templeton Investments. During his career, Brooks focused on analyzing market and macroeconomic conditions, determining asset allocation tilts, and managing various portfolios incorporating Absolute Return, Multi-Asset, and Risk Overlay strategies. His employment history includes Citibank, Steinhardt Partners, ING Barings, Paribas, AIG DKR, and Abacus Capital Management. Brooks has a BA degree from Franklin and Marshall College and has held various SEC and NFA licenses.
Joe Schultz
Chief Operating Officer
25+ years of alternative asset management experience spanning operations, compliance, risk management, and organizational leadership.
Joe Schultz
Chief Operating Officer
Joseph has 25+ years of operational infrastructure, compliance, and senior leadership experience across alternative asset management firms and institutional fintech startups. Most recently, Joseph built and scaled global strategic partnership programs across private markets. Throughout his career, Joseph has specialized in designing complex global operating models, managing risk controls, overseeing regulatory compliance, and directing end-to-end fund operations. Notably, he served as Partner and COO for Basso Capital Management and SummerHaven Investment Management, two multi-billion alternative asset management firms. Joseph was also the founding co-partner of Gilded, a global fintech startup where he navigated international regulatory frameworks to digitize physical Swiss gold by securely tying it to the blockchain. Joseph's extensive history also includes leadership roles at Hazeltree and AIG International. Joseph graduated from Baruch College, CUNY with a B.B.A. in Finance.
Josh Migliardi
Chief Technology Officer
18+ years of asset management experience spanning research, technology leadership, data science, analytics, and strategic investment and business initiatives.
Josh Migliardi
Chief Technology Officer
Josh has 18+ years of experience in asset management spanning research, portfolio construction, business development, and data analytics. Most recently, Josh served as Vice President, Strategy, Analytics & AI at K2 Advisors, a $10+ billion division within Franklin Templeton Investments, where he implemented firm-wide analytics, reporting infrastructure, AI-driven solutions, and strategic technology initiatives. Prior to K2, Josh was a Senior Analyst and Product Specialist at Kenmar Olympia, a $1.5+ billion subsidiary of GEMS Advisors. Josh graduated from Bryant University with a B.S. in Finance and holds Series 3, 7, and 24 licenses.
Contact
Vanquish Alternative Asset Management, LLC
650 5th Avenue, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10019