Our Firm
Our edge is engineered, not discovered.
Quantic Alpha is a private fund founded in 2025, specializing in algorithmic and quantitative investment strategies. It runs one mandate: capital growth through long-term compounding, protected on the downside.
About Quantic Alpha
Strategies built to take a shock and keep compounding
Design cohesive strategies, not a collection of them.
Quantic Alpha builds strategies designed to take a market shock and keep compounding through it, using algorithms and quantitative tools rather than discretion. The portfolios are tilted to growth, and the explicit hedge against the losses that break compounding is what allows that tilt to be carried in full.
The layers are solved together rather than assembled, which is the difference between a cohesive structure and an amalgamation of strategies whose correlations only announce themselves in a decline.
Technology is the leverage. Artificial intelligence, automation and compute do work that would otherwise be done by adding people, which is what lets the firm run a full research and execution process at an efficient level of human capital.
Philosophy
A strict order, and growth that survives a decline
The firm’s work runs in a strict order. An idea is stated plainly enough to be wrong. It is turned into something testable, with the standard of evidence agreed before the test runs. Only after it passes the tests does it become a position, sized to a risk budget rather than to ex-ante enthusiasm.
The philosophy is simple: grow capital without enduring the sharp market declines that damage long-term wealth.
Leadership
Alvaro J. Guerrero
Founder
Alvaro Guerrero is the architect, developer, and operator of the firm’s research and trading platform end to end: market data ingestion, testing & validation, execution, and risk management. He is responsible for turning ideas into strategies, building the system that tests them, and executing the trades based on the firm’s operating principles.
He has spent more than a decade successfully running operating companies, executing his strategic vision and leveraging his process discipline. His experience building global integrated systems and automating processes, controls, and reporting has been instrumental in the success of the companies he led. He held roles as Vice President of ALCA Corp., a family-owned group operating across the United States and Latin America, and sat on its executive, finance and operating committees.
His early career was in Investment Banking, namely Fixed-Income and Equity Derivatives. He held Vice President roles at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital, and worked as a Senior Financial Analyst at Fannie Mae.
He holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he concentrated in Financial Engineering, and a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, with concentrations in Finance and Information Systems.
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Resilience is designed, not diversified away.
What the firm trades, how a position is sized, and the standard of evidence a hypothesis clears before it is traded at all.