R. G. Niederhoffer Capital Management

R. G. Niederhoffer Capital Management, Inc. is a 31-year-old Miami-based quantitative trading advisor. R. G. Niederhoffer Capital Management aims to improve the return and risk-adjusted return of its institutional and high net worth clients by providing a combination of strong absolute return and dependable downside protection for portfolios containing equities, hedge funds, fixed income, and other traditional and alternative assets. The firm employs a short-term, primarily contrarian strategy to invest systematically in the worlds largest and most liquid equity, fixed income, foreign exchange and commodity markets. Founder Roy Niederhoffer graduated in 1987 from Harvard University with a degree in Computational Neuroscience, and the firms investment strategy takes its inspiration from this field. The underlying principle of the strategy is that markets are predictable in the short-term because their movements are influenced by the behavioral biases of market participants. The strat...