Strategies: Sell Short/Bear Market

  • Shield Bear Market Alternative

    A bearish alternative strategy that maintains 100% short equity exposure, aiming to benefit from market declines while hedging with low-risk assets; typically exhibits negative beta to equity indexes.

  • Shield Long Short Credit

    A long-short credit strategy that seeks to profit from changing credit conditions by combining bond positions with credit default swaps, while using derivatives to hedge market and interest rate risk.

  • Shield Long Short Equity

    A long-short equity strategy that dynamically adjusts long and short exposure based on macro views and bottom-up research, with at least 75% allocated to equities or related derivatives.

  • Shield Market Neutral

    A market neutral equity strategy that offsets long and short positions across sectors, styles, and regions to minimize systematic risk, with low beta exposure and a focus on security selection.

  • Shield Multialternative

    A multi-strategy alternative approach that combines several alternative investment tactics, with flexible positioning and gross short exposure typically exceeding 20%, adapting over time to market conditions.

  • Shield Volatility

    A volatility trading strategy that treats volatility as an asset class, using directional and arbitrage approaches to profit from changes in implied volatility across asset classes, targeting short-term gains.