SSARIS Advisors, LLC is a majority-owned subsidiary of State Street Corporation and a portfolio company of State Street Global Alliance.
The mission of SSARIS is to design, structure and implement absolute return strategies for institutional investors. SSARIS is a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registered investment advisor under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The company is located in Stamford, CT and works with SSgA offices worldwide in the distribution and servicing of hedge fund strategies.
SSARIS' hybrid business model - combining hedge funds and fund-of-fund management - length of operating history and daily risk management platform makes SSARIS well-positioned to provide quality institutional hedge fund services.
SSARIS provides a variety of non-correlated hedge fund strategies that seek to provide absolute returns in any economic environment.
SSARIS broadly categorizes the hedge fund universe into two strategy types: convergent and divergent. Convergent strategies focus on overvalued/undervalued situations that tend to perform well in periods of stable and declining volatility. Divergent strategies capitalize on prices that serial correlate during periods of rising volatility. By combining both disciplines, SSARIS has developed an absolute return approach that seeks to produce excess return irrespective of capital market conditions.
The recent secular decline in equity market performance has caused increased attention to be focused on absolute return investment strategies due to their ability to reduce portfolio risk and diversify returns. SSARIS creates portfolios that are risk-managed, non-correlated to traditional capital market benchmarks and efficient.
The principals of SSARIS have managed hedge funds since 1983 and, are well positioned to assess the qualitative aspects of outside fund managers. SSARIS is proud of its professionalism in conducting manager due diligence and in structuring hedge fund portfolios within the fund-of-funds marketplace.
Investing involves risk including the risk of loss of principal. Hedge funds are primarily unregistered investment pools. These types of products are not subject to the numerous regulations that apply to mutual funds for investor protection. Although some funds of hedge funds register their securities with the US SEC, not all funds of hedge funds register with the SEC. Hedge funds may provide higher potential return but have higher costs and risks. They may not be suitable for every investor.
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