Founded in 1995, QCM is a UK-based investment manager offering sophisticated Systematic Global Macro portfolio solutions to investors around the globe. The firm is regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and registered in the US with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and National Futures Association (NFA). 

Prior to setting up QCM, Aref Karim, the founder and the Company’s CEO & CIO, spent thirteen years at one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA). While at this institution, Aref designed and managed a multi-billion dollar portfolio of alternative investments. This was a pioneering foray into alternative investing for a sovereign institution. 

QCM dedicates its efforts to developing innovative and differentiated liquid portfolios for investors. The firm’s objective is to create investor wealth by generating long-run absolute returns with low correlation to traditional asset classes. Returns are driven through a wide variety of liquid financial and commodity markets.  

A diversified long/short strategy, developed and enhanced over 25 years of research, is applied to wide-ranging regulated markets that are listed on most major exchanges. Client portfolios not only have the safety of participating in regulated global exchanges, but they incur low transaction costs and offer high liquidity by using futures derivatives.  

The QCM investment process is packaged and executed through a disciplined and mathematically formulated set of models that are run systematically with no emotional biases.