Investment philosophy
Our goal is to help our friends and other investors accumulate
wealth through riding on the back of global capital flows. Over the
last few years many friends and family have lost considerable portions
of their retirement portfolios at the hands of traditional asset
“managers” and “hedge” funds.
When it was all said and done most investments of our friends in
long only funds lost more than the MSCI World index and investments in
hedge funds (which were supposed to produce positive returns in both up
and down markets) actually lost money and in some instances
considerable sums more or less at the same time.
Who we are
Thomas MacLeod
An investor who has been trading in world currency, commodity, fixed
income and equity markets for approximately 20 years. He trades world
financial markets for a living, manage high net worth wealth and
advises friends on how to accumulate wealth.
He holds a Masters of Commerce degree in Finance and a Bachelors
degree of Philosophy. He began his career as a commodity trader for a
Japanese Trading house. 5 Years later he moved to London where he
performed market analysis and wealth manage for high net worth
individuals for a London based private bank. He then moved to New York
as a proprietary trader for a boutique merchant bank where he managed a
$100m proprietary macro trading book.
He retired from merchant banking life in July 2007 and relocated to
Queenstown New Zealand with his wife and sons. He has since been slowly
drawn back into the markets, managing his own funds along with
retirement accounts of friends, family, & select high net worth
individuals.
Emilio Niederhoffer
A trader of some 10 years experience in equity, foreign exchange and
more recently commodity and fixed interest markets. He built a
successful 15 year career in the world of high tech start-ups until
called upon to manage his mothers wealth fund after a family tragedy
and a disastrous experience with commercial investment advisers.
He has since turned the fund into a private investment powerhouse.
Making risk management and capital preservation his priority, he only
participates in a trade if he feels that it is safe for his mother. As
a result of the latest financial crises he has recently expanded his
private fund with the addition of retirement funds of family members
and close friends.
He decided to form Glenorchy Capital alongside Thomas MacLeod to
help others make sensible long term wealth creation decisions for their
families.
He spends his time with his wife and two children at his homes in
Queenstown NZ, St. Barts and the family residence in Grindelwald.
