Exceed Investments
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Option Based Portfolio Management
Options can provide advantages in all market environments:
Option trading can be complicated and risky, and some strategies may cause you to lose your entire investment. See Disclosures
Option strategies provide a number of unique benefits that may add further diversification, a better fit for an investment goal, and potential for alpha. If seeking a market hedge, generating yield, or a combination of both, option strategies may be for you. Following are a couple of examples that illustrate the power of option solutions.
For illustrative purposes only. Not intended to represent the actual performance of any strategy or of Exceed’s investment results.
Option trading can be complicated and risky, and some strategies may cause you to lose your entire investment. See Disclosures
For illustrative purposes only. Not intended to represent actual performance of any strategy or of Exceed’s investment results.
Option trading can be complicated and risky, and some strategies may cause you to lose your entire investment. See Disclosures
Over 25 years of options focused experience including both listed and over the counter trading, engineering option based strategies in multiple instruments (including structured notes, indexes, mutual funds, and institutional level portfolios), advising, managing and educating, the Exceed team can assist in your needs.
Over a 25 year financial career, Mr. Halpern has structured, priced, and traded billions of dollars in structured products, exotic derivatives, and listed vanilla options in addition to managing trading groups, supervising risk management and participating in executive level, firm-wide strategic initiatives.
Mr. Halpern founded Exceed Investments in order to take advantage of the unique characteristics that options present in defining, hedging, and/or optimizing a market exposure. Exceed’s first initiative was to combine the beneficial elements of structured notes with that of mutual funds. Exceed currently sub-advises on four mutual funds that use elements of structured notes in providing a defined level of downside protection. Consistently a thought leader in the space, under the direction of Mr. Halpern Exceed continues to innovate, resulting in a number of 1sts in the industry inclusive of the first mutual fund using a structured notes approach, optimization features allowing for evergreen characteristics, and with more to come.
Prior to founding Exceed Investments, Mr. Halpern was a Director at Lamco, the asset management division of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. He managed the exotic derivatives commodities book, a multi-billion complex OTC derivative portfolio, was the chief negotiator on a number of global bank settlements and was a lead member of a task force on structured products.
Prior to joining Lamco, Mr. Halpern was Director on the Equity Derivatives Trading desk of ING Financial Markets, a global financial institution. As a Director, Mr. Halpern was
responsible for structuring, pricing, and trading an array of exotic derivatives for the global sales force. Prior to joining ING, Mr. Halpern was SVP of Strategy and Risk for Kellogg Capital Group’s derivatives division.
From 1996 to 2002, Mr. Halpern was at Letco Specialists, since acquired by TD Securities, where he began his career as a derivatives trader. Mr. Halpern became the youngest partner at Letco Specialists. He was responsible for the IT build-out for the company’s east coast operations while managing a trading division and a proprietary portfolio. He was also the primary market maker on the American Stock Exchange in a number of highly volatile, active derivative listings.
Mr. Halpern lives in New York City with his wife and three children.
