Profil
Mr. Samer M.
Nsouli is Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Lyford Group International Ltd. He founded Lyford Group in 2002.
Mr. Nsouli began his investment career.
He joined Drexel Burnham Lambert in Paris as a foreign-exchange trader.
He joined Lehman Brothers as a non-dollar government bond trader and market maker; he also traded Treasury STRIPs.
He also joined UBS, also as a U.S.
Treasury trader, making markets for the entire STRIPs curve, off-the-run bonds and high-coupon callable bonds.
He then founded Scorpio Fund Advisors.
Mr. Nsouli received his BS in finance from Boston College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Anciens postes connus de Samer Marwan Nsouli
| Sociétés | Poste | Fin |
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Lyford Group International Ltd.
Lyford Group International Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance Lyford Group International's primary investment approach focuses on liquid tactical trading to complement the firm's fundamental macro-economic views. They manage the Lyford Fund, a discretionary, tactically opportunistic global macro hedge fund that actively manages positions in equity indices, fixed-income, commodity and currency instruments using fundamental research and technical analysis. Lyford primarily trades highly liquid futures and options. A large proportion of the fund's assets are maintained in cash. The fund seeks double-digit returns while controlling volatility and maintains a negative correlation to most major indices and benchmarks. The Lyford Fund has two different books. Up to 30% of the positions consist of longer-term theme trades of one week to 3 months. These trades represent strong views that the firm expects to play out over time and are sized to handle intra-day volatility without breaching set risk parameters. All positions that Lyford anticipates will have more than 80% correlation to one another are part of the same theme. The remaining 70% of the book focuses on a short-term tactical approach that seeks to take advantage of events on the economic calendar, intra-day price action, asset reversion to the mean, anticipation of correlation breakdowns across a variety global markets and dynamic hedging of long-term themes. Lyford's risk management efforts include a strict stop-loss of 3% of net asset value on all longer-term theme trades and from 10 to 50 basis points of NAV on all short-term trades. The also have an overall hard stop-loss of 6% of NAV in any one month. Once they approach the 6% level, the firm begins to pare down positions in the portfolio and reduce their value at risk. If that level is reached at any time, they will close out all positions. The liquidity of the instruments Lyford trades allows them to collapse the portfolio in a very short time span. Lyford performs a value at risk analysis of their portfolio on a daily basis using Riskmetrics. The previous 30 trading days are used to calculate the correlation of assets. Riskmetrics is also used to determine how a position would increase or decrease the value at risk in the firm's total portfolio and a 95% VaR is closely evaluated. Lyford also performs an internal risk analysis based on their view of correlation and volatility and converts all assets to an S&P futures contract equivalent weighting. The portfolio usually has an average margin/equity ratio of 10%. | Fondateur | 13/06/2013 |
| JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Fuji Bank Ltd. (New York Branch)
Fuji Bank Ltd. (New York Branch) Regional BanksFinance Commercial bank | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
UBS Capital Americas LLC
UBS Capital Americas LLC Investment ManagersFinance UBS Capital focuses on making investments in middle market LBOs, recapitalizations and growth financings. Their investment strategy is opportunistic but disciplined. They seek to identify industries or companies undergoing positive structural changes with above average top line growth prospects. UBS Capital looks to acquire a platform company with strong market position and excellent management team and to create value through the execution of growth business plans, strategic acquisitions and access to financial and strategic resources | Trading-Fixed Income | 30/12/1995 |
Union Bank of Switzerland
Union Bank of Switzerland Major BanksFinance Provides banking services | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
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Lehman Brothers, Inc.
Lehman Brothers, Inc. Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Provides investment banking services | Finance |
Union Bank of Switzerland
Union Bank of Switzerland Major BanksFinance Provides banking services | Finance |
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Major BanksFinance Provides banking, asset management, investment banking, credit card and mortgage services | Finance |
The Trustees of Columbia University in The City of New York
The Trustees of Columbia University in The City of New York Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University | Consumer Services |
Fuji Bank Ltd. (New York Branch)
Fuji Bank Ltd. (New York Branch) Regional BanksFinance Commercial bank | Finance |
Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc.
Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. Agricultural Commodities/MillingProcess Industries Manufactures chocolates and sugar candies. | Process Industries |
UBS Capital Americas LLC
UBS Capital Americas LLC Investment ManagersFinance UBS Capital focuses on making investments in middle market LBOs, recapitalizations and growth financings. Their investment strategy is opportunistic but disciplined. They seek to identify industries or companies undergoing positive structural changes with above average top line growth prospects. UBS Capital looks to acquire a platform company with strong market position and excellent management team and to create value through the execution of growth business plans, strategic acquisitions and access to financial and strategic resources | Finance |
Boston College
Boston College Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University | Consumer Services |
Lyford Group International Ltd.
Lyford Group International Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance Lyford Group International's primary investment approach focuses on liquid tactical trading to complement the firm's fundamental macro-economic views. They manage the Lyford Fund, a discretionary, tactically opportunistic global macro hedge fund that actively manages positions in equity indices, fixed-income, commodity and currency instruments using fundamental research and technical analysis. Lyford primarily trades highly liquid futures and options. A large proportion of the fund's assets are maintained in cash. The fund seeks double-digit returns while controlling volatility and maintains a negative correlation to most major indices and benchmarks. The Lyford Fund has two different books. Up to 30% of the positions consist of longer-term theme trades of one week to 3 months. These trades represent strong views that the firm expects to play out over time and are sized to handle intra-day volatility without breaching set risk parameters. All positions that Lyford anticipates will have more than 80% correlation to one another are part of the same theme. The remaining 70% of the book focuses on a short-term tactical approach that seeks to take advantage of events on the economic calendar, intra-day price action, asset reversion to the mean, anticipation of correlation breakdowns across a variety global markets and dynamic hedging of long-term themes. Lyford's risk management efforts include a strict stop-loss of 3% of net asset value on all longer-term theme trades and from 10 to 50 basis points of NAV on all short-term trades. The also have an overall hard stop-loss of 6% of NAV in any one month. Once they approach the 6% level, the firm begins to pare down positions in the portfolio and reduce their value at risk. If that level is reached at any time, they will close out all positions. The liquidity of the instruments Lyford trades allows them to collapse the portfolio in a very short time span. Lyford performs a value at risk analysis of their portfolio on a daily basis using Riskmetrics. The previous 30 trading days are used to calculate the correlation of assets. Riskmetrics is also used to determine how a position would increase or decrease the value at risk in the firm's total portfolio and a 95% VaR is closely evaluated. Lyford also performs an internal risk analysis based on their view of correlation and volatility and converts all assets to an S&P futures contract equivalent weighting. The portfolio usually has an average margin/equity ratio of 10%. | Finance |
















