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Who We Are

Our mission is to be the most impactful options and futures team for our clients.

Lake Hill was founded and is managed by industry leaders with extensive experience through many market cycles. The Lake Hill management team previously held senior roles at Salomon Brothers, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, Bank of America, Bloomberg, and more. We seek the most talented minds in the derivatives markets to identify and capture new opportunities. Our world-class global team brings together the art and science of investing while being on the forefront of technology.

Lake Hill Approach

To succeed with options over time, one must uniquely have both deep industry experience and the ability to execute strategies in a disciplined manner. To minimize the effects of human emotion and human error, we utilize modern technology in almost every aspect of the investment process. This allows us to make decisions based on information supported by statistical and empirical evidence while minimizing operational risk.

Lake Hill prefers strategies with longer time horizons because it allows the law of large numbers to work in our favor. In order to successfully monetize the "edge" that arises from risk transfer activity, we typically transact repeatedly over a period of years, not weeks or months. We may also invest for the shorter term when unique opportunities are created due to market stress or extreme dislocations.

About The Lake Hill approach

Lake Hill Engine

The Lake Hill engineering team builds and powers the infrastructure necessary for innovative research, investment, and risk-management platforms that provide us with a competitive advantage in the options and futures markets.

Having an edge is merely one element of success. To realize the edge, one must follow a rigorous process over time, reduce human emotion while being flexible to new insights. Our technology, automation, and discipline enable us to provide our clients with dynamic portfolio management that strives to continuously improve and evolve as market conditions change.

Discipline Through Automation

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Discipline Through Automation

The overarching lesson we can distill from our collective experience is that one must be relentlessly disciplined to increase the odds of success. Our highly automated trading systems reduce human bias and keep us focused on capturing the edge.

Integrated Operations

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Integrated Operations

Our processes are fully integrated from front to back. Using in-house software developed and refined over many years, we seamlessly integrate market surveillance, volatility curve analysis, portfolio and risk management, trading, post-trade reconciliation, and reporting.

Agile, Reliable, & Scalable

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Agile, Reliable, & Scalable

Our cloud-native infrastructure gives us enormous scalability and stability.

We pursue our mission through a culture of excellence: constantly improving, learning, building, and providing real value and insight for our clients.