Spartan

Spartan Fund Management Inc. is a Toronto-based private wealth management firm. Through management of private funds and managed accounts on behalf of high net worth and institutional clients, Spartan is active in trading listed equity, currency, commodity and debt markets. The firm employs a number of volatility related investment strategies including Long Volatility, Relative Value Option Arbitrage and Opportunistic.

Institutional Edge: Our Competitive Advantage

The vision in creating Spartan, and our edge, is to bring the institutional experience and discipline of successful proprietary bank traders, floor traders and market makers within an investment fund structure. Prior to forming Spartan, the individuals on Spartan’s investment team all worked within an institutional framework, where they were judged by their performance on a day-to-day basis within very tightly controlled risk budgets. Bringing this group of traders together within an investment fund structure gives Spartan a significant edge, which our investors benefit from.

Preservation of Capital

We consider the preservation of capital to be as important as performance. Avoiding large losses is invaluable, not just for our client’s peace of mind but for their returns as well. Making money in good times is relatively easy. Keeping it in bad times is key to creating long term wealth.

A Stake in Our Funds

The employees of the firm are – and will remain – significant investors of the Fund.

Governance and Infrastructure

Governance and infrastructure are paramount in everything that we do. Each member of our senior management team has over 20 years experience in the capital markets area covering all key areas in wealth management – trading, operations, risk management and compliance. We follow a broad range of “best practices” which we think are pivotal to the operation of any money management firm. One simple, but crucial, example: we believe that it is important that compliance and risk officers operate at arms-length from the trading function in order to ensure separation of duties, to eliminate conflicts of interest and to provide inherent objectivity within the firm.