Karma Innovation Return – Digital Assets : Derivatives : Convexity

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

Posted by Shreyas ChariSeptember 22, 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 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

Mahindra 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.

With a diverse background spanning finance and technology, Animesh has 8 years of experience in the quantitative space. He holds a Chartered Financial Analyst certification and Computer Science Engineering degree. He has experience in asset management with one of the largest NBFCs in India where he primarily dealt in Indian equities. He has also worked in creating multi asset portfolios spanning Equities, Fixed Income, Commodities and Currencies for an international hedge fund. His notable experience includes setting up a quantitative desk for one of the earliest FINMA regulated crypto banks, Amina bank.

Karma Digital Assets

A market neutral approach in digital assets to create volatility minimized returns

About Us

Our Philosophy