Ryan McRandal

Ryan McRandal is currently a portfolio manager at Peters Capital Group, a global macro firm that builds and implements bespoke investment portfolios for institutional clients. These portfolios are thematic in nature, and cover a range of unique investment objectives, including tail risk hedging in equities and interest rates.

McRandal was formerly the head of thematic portfolio management at Axa Investment Managers. His focus was on creating customised solutions and building thematic portfolios for institutional clients, particularly in areas such as macro convexity and hedging equity risk. McRandal launched and managed the first institutional fund of tail hedging strategies in the world, the award-winning Axa Alternative Tail Hedge fund. McRandal was responsible for hedge fund allocation as well as private equity, impact investing and real-estate solutions and oversight. Prior to joining Axa IM, he worked for four years as the head of research at Unifortune Asset Management, a multi-year award-winning hedge fund.

Prior to that role, he was a derivatives trader. At Swiss Re Capital Markets, London, he held a vice-president position on a fixed income treasury and trading desk. He has also been a derivatives trader at WestLB in London, where he was part of the Cross Market Derivatives Arbitrage Group and has multi-asset-class derivatives expertise, having traded across interest rates, foreign exchange and emerging market credit derivatives.

McRandal graduated with a first-class honours degree in international securities, investment and banking from the ICMA Centre’s specialist business school for financial markets at the University of Reading.

Book contributions by Ryan McRandal

Tail Risk Hedging

Edited by Andrew Rozanov and Ryan McRandal

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