James Dedman began his career with Barclays Capital in 2008, working on the Fund Linked Derivatives desk before moving to Exotic Rates StructuringHe then joined Morgan Capital, in a proprietary trading role, and was made Partner after 3 years. Focusing on non-vanilla, fixed income investments, he was responsible for the funds first convertible arbitrage deal and first fixed income ETF creation/redemption. His main interest was relative value trade ideas and alpha generation through exotic derivative/option arbitrageIn 2015, James joined Cazadores Investments Pty Ltd in Sydney, Australia as a Senior Portfolio Manager. He was responsible for their European investment strategy, focusing on fixed income and convertible bondsIn 2017, expansion occurred with the creation of an FCA regulated Investment Manager in the UK, focusing on family offices and other institutional clients In 2019, Cazadores launched its first quantitative investment strategy - Cazadores Commodity Alpha and became a registered member of the National Futures Association (NFA) in the U.S.In its first 2 years, the strategy was shortlisted for the HFM European Performance Awards and 2 HFM Global Quant Performance Awards in the categories "Commodities Fund" and "Specialist CTA". AUA currently sits at 165 million USD and is listed on Bloomberg under ticker "CAZACOM KY Equity"Relative Value, Arbitrage, Illiquid Assets, European Credit, Convertible Bonds, Asset Swaps, Direct Equity Investments, Quantitative Strategies, Commodities
