Karma Digital Assets
A market neutral approach in digital assets to create volatility minimized returns
Karma employs its experience of more than 25 years in traditional derivatives markets into crypto markets deploying institutional grade systems and risk management to create robust portfolios and generate returns regardless of market direction
About Us
We provide timely and insightful research and commentary on the crypto markets to provide you context and understanding of this new asset class. In crypto, we apply principles honed in varied market regimes through the 90’s to the present day across multiple assets such as Equities, Commodities, Fixed-Income & Global Macro.
Our deep and broad expertise in portfolio construction is applicable to many use cases including treasury management for yield enhancement and protection, non correlated market solutions, hedging optimization and arbitrage based strategies
Our Philosophy
Capitalize on market movements and the lack of movements by manufacturing attractive return risk ratios.
Rarely more than 50% invested in the market. Liquidity and deep pockets = Alpha
Manage existential risk by intelligent custody and risk solutions. Minimization of portfolio drawdowns
If this describes you as well in approach, we invite you to be part of this together
Why Us
Manager's Years of Experience
Nearly three decades of experience in trading derivatives across multiple market regimes successfully in multiple regions in equities and indices
Managed Crisis Situations
Succesfully traded through Stress regimes such as LTCM, dotcom boom bust, EM crisis 2006, the GFC (Global Fin Crisis 2008), SOV credit crisis (2011-12), Brexit & Volmageddon
Excellent Track Record
CIO's P&L in positive 9 figures over his career in the sell-side and buy-side as well as generating returns in the Crypto space in proprietary accounts
Latest Research
Digital Portfolio Construction: Or How to create and preserve wealth in 2023
The simplest form of investing in a new tech/assetclass/market is getting long the underlying. Buy indices or large cap tech…
Our Team
SHREYAS
CHARI
CIO
Shreyas has 22 years of experience trading derivatives at institutions such as Deutsche Bank and Nomura Securities as well as on the buy side at Arrowhawk Capital Partners. He has traded all forms of exotic and vanilla derivatives over his career and has performed at the highest level over many markets including through the financial crisis with nine figure profits over the years. He has 5 years of experience trading options, futures and arbitrage in crypto since 2017 and is well versed with both CeFi as well as DeFi protocols
MAHENDRA CHOUDHARY
Quant / Engineer
Mahendra has experience in building systematic strategies and analytic tools at B&B Analytics. He has direct options and other derivatives experience in the machine learning space having worked on projects for trading desks in the crypto world such as SEBA. His experience in APIs, data modeling and working with volatility curves for market making is a direct relevant experience to Karma