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Systematic research and investment judgment
Most Kairos strategies have a systematic, algorithmic core. Selected opportunities also involve discretionary judgment, informed by quantitative analysis and derivatives-market experience.
Approach
Capturing structural opportunities through derivatives
Kairos Investment Advisors is a New York investment-management firm founded in 2020. The work is quantitative and data-driven, with particular emphasis on derivatives, volatility, correlation, and systematic strategies.
Kairos was founded to bring research, derivatives structuring, and portfolio management into a single investment process. The firm combines scientific inquiry with practical market experience, supported by collaboration among practitioners and researchers. We focus on four pillars: relative value, convexity, risk premia, and alternative risk transfer.
Investment process
Research and judgment, carried through structuring, portfolio construction, risk management, and monitoring.
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Investment instruments
Our current investment universe mainly focuses on derivatives and options.
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Structuring
Select instruments and trading structures that target the opportunity while managing unwanted exposures. The structure is part of the investment decision.
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Portfolio construction
Size and combine strategies with attention to liquidity, concentration, and how positions interact within the portfolio.
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Risk management and monitoring
Define limits before capital is committed. Monitor the portfolio on an ongoing basis, including its behavior under stress, and adjust when the opportunity or the risk has changed.
Kairos Labs
Research into practice
Kairos Labs brings together quantitative research, investment experience, and collaboration with practitioners and academic researchers. We develop innovative trading ideas and investigate new methods in statistical modeling, machine learning, portfolio construction, and risk management, evaluating their practical relevance to the investment process.
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