Tim McCormack
President & CEO, Senior Portfolio Manager
Tim McCormack has over 19 years of experience trading and allocating
to non-traditional investment strategies. As founder of Santa
Barbara Alpha Strategies, Tim developed the firm's unique approach
to portfolio construction, which integrates a proprietary,
hierarchical macro-analysis of strategy types and manager styles.
His responsibilities include sourcing managers, strategy, due
diligence, portfolio construction, and risk management. From
1987 to 1991, Tim was the CTA of Alpha Futures Management,
a quantitative asset management firm that specialized in developing
and trading volatility-based trading strategies in the futures
markets. From 1988 to July 1997, he was a general securities
principal with Vanguard Capital, operating a branch office
in Santa Barbara, California. Tim's primary focus with Vanguard
Capital was designing and managing multi-manager portfolios
for clients and providing institutional equities clearing services
for market neutral hedge funds. In July of 1997, Tim left Vanguard
Capital to begin the operations of Santa Barbara Alpha Strategies,
formerly McCormack Advisors Inc.
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