Kasim Ahmed
Verified
Currently Operations Partner at Next Gen Capital LLP. Next Gen Capital is the manager to the Next Generation Fund, a new Venture Capital Fund operating in London and Berkeley. TNGF invests in seed stage startups and student-led startups from leading US and UK universities. The sector focus for the fund is Health-tech, Fin-tech, Ed-tech and Clean-tech. Investments are to be in new, disruptive and top flight companies that have solutions to the pressing problems that the world faces today.
Managing Director at Quanthub Ltd. Quanthub is an advisor to large hedge funds located globally using proprietary methods that help them with security selection and market timing. In-house models developed in previous roles deployed to provide highly impactful timing advice. Live demonstration portfolios shared with clients to provide real-time alpha. Clients are large hedge funds and traders based globally
Technology thought leader; honed the use of risk as a forward input into a systematic security analysis process. Leads to more accurate results in asset selection, timing and weighting within a portfolio v/s conventional means.
Undogmatic suite of models at core of a “Fund of Funds” or “Beauty Contest” system. De-correlated, diversified portfolios that isolate the ‘change in state’ robustly proven; 3 of which are audited/verifiable on Bloomberg.
Live and ‘Flipped’ Book returns (where an originally bullish call systematically inverts and v.v.) have strong track records of up to 18 months. Both books are markedly anti-phase and showed a 2017 Sharpe ratio greater than 5.
Other portfolios have Sharpe ratios ranging 1.5 to 2.5. Demonstrated across multiple asset classes, rebalance frequencies, geographies, configurations and business cycles among other ‘specification flexes’.
Access to a live IBKR Macro futures book with a monthly return of 5%+ available on request.
Tel +447799325586
kasim@nextgeneration.vc