Portfolio manager Scott Shuttleworth launched the Vega Fund, an absolute return equity derivatives fund, in July 2018 with seed money from various sources. In this interview, he talks about the history of the strategy and the launch, the fund's algorithm, which, incidentally, is seeing signs of an impending recession, and the environment for emerging hedge fund managers in Australia. Scott Shuttleworth: I have devised the strategy piece by piece over the past 10 years, beginning at university when I began classes in option pricing. I finished my Master's Degree in 2017 and wanted to carry research into that market privately.