
- Private investment management company providing non-correlated alpha and volatility management strategy development and consulting.
- Our objective is to help investors reduce overall portfolio risk and add alpha across equity, fixed income, currency and commodity asset classes.
- Stutland Volatility Group, LLC was formed in 2009 and registered in the state of Illinois in 2011.
- The Firm has combined 50 years of option market making experience.
2008 market downturn exposed fundamental weaknesses
- Hedge funds did not provide a hedge.
- Fund of Funds did not provide diversification.
- Decoupling held true for only a short period.
- When global markets sank, correlation across all asset classes went to one.
- Not enough managers used dynamic hedging and volatility indices to control risk across asset classes.
- Minimal expertise and trading acumen available for using these instruments effectively.
- Most traditional investment strategies are under-performing.
- Very few managers have strategies for:
- Protection in a bear market
- Income in a down market
- Managing rising volatility across every asset class

