Jeffrey Talpins
Jeffrey Marc Talpins is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of New York-based hedge fund, Element Capital Management and specialized in macro investing.
Talpins founded the fund in 2005 at Proxima Alfa Investments USA LLC as Element Capital Group and then spun out into an independent firm in 2009. Element is one of the world’s largest hedge funds dedicated to macro investing with approximately $17.5 billion in assets under management and a 21% annualized return since inception, as of August 2018. By December 2018, the firm was described as a "heavyweight," managing $18.2 billion."
Early life and education
Education
Talpins graduated from Yale University in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science with Distinction in Economics and Applied Mathematics.Career
Talpins worked in the Mortgage Backed Securities Department at Goldman Sachs, and later at Citigroup's Fixed Income Options as the Head Trader, credited with expanding this business. Talpins was recruited by Ravi Mehra and Robert Sleutz of Vega Asset Management under the Vega Plus Partners platform to set up his own fund where he launched Element Capital with Vega's seed capital and infrastructure.He launched Element Capital in 2005 with $250 million.