Cinctive Capital Management, an alternative investment multi-manager platform, has launched a new global long-short quantitative trading strategy which will be overseen by Thong Nguyen, founder and chief investment officer of Olympiad research as part of a multi-year exclusive agreement between the two firms.

Cinctive Capital Management (Cinctive), an alternative investment multi-manager platform, has launched a new global long-short quantitative trading strategy which will be overseen by Thong Nguyen, founder and chief investment officer of Olympiad Research as part of a multi-year exclusive agreement between the two firms.

New York-based Cinctive has been growing steadily since it launched in September 2019. While the firm initially focused on fundamental global equity investments, it added a macro strategy last summer run by industry veteran Giles Coppel.

Nguyen has over 20 years of investment management experience. Prior to founding Olympiad Research (previously known as Keebeck Alpha), he led a successful quantitative trading team at Spring Creek Capital, (SSC) which ran a diversified suite of strategies including equity market neutral, global macro, credit and intraday equities and futures. He also has extensive experience with alpha research, portfolio management and team leadership stemming from his experience at Bank of America Securities, AlphaSimplex, Credit Suisse, Black Forest Trading and Verition, along with SCC.  .