Investment Advisors
The opportune moment is not luck. It is preparation meeting a window the market rarely holds open.
The firm
Kairos is named for the Greek distinction between mere time and the right time. We advise a small number of principals and families who would rather wait correctly than trade constantly. Research is quiet. Positions are few. The work is knowing when not to act.
Discipline
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We look for structural dislocations created by institutional and structured-product derivatives flows — crowding, hedging, and issuance that leave volatility and correlation mis-specified. The question is not the next headline. It is whether the structure is still paying.
02
Quantitative research comes first. If a dislocation cannot be modeled — its half-life, its sensitivities, the conditions under which it vanishes — it is not yet a trade. Expression is systematic: derivatives that isolate the inefficiency.
03
The book is a specialist derivatives and volatility mandate, not a conventional long/short equity or simple trend-following.
“Most capital is spent reacting. We wait for the weather to break — then we move.”
In The Press
Bloomberg News
Banks Offload Risk from Leveraged ETFs With Exotic ‘Crash Puts’
Bloomberg News
Worries Grow That Hedge Fund Crowding May Amplify Risk in Crisis
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Cooling Middle East Tensions Flip Investor Hedges
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Volatility Reset Spurs Upside Convexity, Cheaper Hedges
El Periódico
Las bolsas baten récords pese a las guerras en Irán y Ucrania
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Brings Sophisticated Quant Trading to the Masses
El País / Cinco Días
La guerra de Trump abona el terreno para la especulación financiera, pero levanta ampollas en Wall Street
Risk.net
Iran selloff wipes out dispersion profits
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Volatility Is the Go-To Hedge as Safe Havens Falter, Uncertainty Builds
El País / Cinco Días
De FOMO al catastrofismo: la narrativa pesimista gana terreno entre los pequeños inversores
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Derivatives Boom Fuels Volatility Trade Straddling AI Mania
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Markets Strain Under Hidden Leverage, VIX and Nasdaq-S&P Strategies Eyed
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Goes on a Wild Ride: ‘No One Was Expecting This’
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South Korea’s Derivatives Market Emerges as Global Hub, Boosted by Overnight Trading: Samsung
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Asia Vol Markets Draw Global Demand for Alpha and Protection
Recent speaking
Real Sociedad Bascongada de los Amigos del País (RSBAP)
Vitoria-Gasteiz
Induction lecture. The convergence between the human and the machine
Talking Hedge
Austin
Engineering diversification: How Quantitative Investment Strategies strengthen portfolios
Cboe Risk Management Conference
Nashville
Knowing When to Hold and When to Fold: Playbooks, Signals & Real-World Constraints
Europe EQDerivatives
Barcelona
One Slide, One Trade — Where Innovation Meets Execution
Columbia University
New York
Trends on Quantitative Finance & beyond
Cornell University MS in Financial Engineering
New York
Alternative Risk Transfer Business
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