Who we are

Unique process.
Deep Experience.
Uncorrelated returns.

LTZF Capital Management is an event driven investment firm emphasizing participation in political situations where outsized returns are uncorrelated with traditional markets. We manage capital for institutional investors, including endowments, family offices, and pension funds, using our unique skill set to cut through noise and find value.

Our process leverages the connections we have forged through careers at the intersection of foreign policy, political intelligence, and finance to unearth opportunities in markets with limited exposure to major central banks and common equity indices.

Our diligence process, ability to bring agency to political dysfunction, and extensive global relationships allows us to deploy capital in heavily regulated or dislocated markets to achieve regular high returns. Our team has non-traditional finance backgrounds, which enable us to see past the pervasive noise and groupthink typical in hedge funds.

What we offer

Opportunities

Our investment process focuses on niche opportunities in markets that have been largely disconnected from the global financial system.

Our bespoke approach allows us to identify attractive excess returns, to navigate political complexity, and create catalysts to increase value.

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FCPA, Money Laundering, and Sanctions

We rehabilitate investments in markets where illicit finance has supplanted liquidity by connecting companies to clean sources of capital.

Public and Private Strategy

We overcome the challenge of agency in political crisis by owning a mix of public and private assets, enabling us to provide open communication and a better set of incentives to decision-makers.

Sophisticated Solutions

In addition to our standard portfolio, we help companies with cross-border challenges in specific geographies caused by shifting political or regulatory regimes.

Re-Calibrating Dislocations

Our political goals are modest, but we work directly with policymakers to realize real-world financial solutions to human problems, including reintegration of spasmodic markets back to traditional finance streams.

Responsibility

LTZF Capital Management believes in
responsible investing.

We believe investing responsibly is foundational to our business.
We offer a unique opportunity for responsible investing.

Together with our fiduciary duty to maximize returns, we take seriously our responsibility to reduce risk.
We reduce global risk in five key areas:

🌐Exacting Governance: We are active owners who demand accountability and transparency from actors involved in situations in which we invest. We deploy first-rate diligence and audit processes in all investments. We are stridently anti-corruption and endeavor to further the rule of law.

🌐Environmental and Social Impact: We seek appropriate environmental and social disclosures from the entities in which we invest, and we encourage physical solutions that are sustainable, humane, and responsible. We advocate for the dignity of labor, the elimination of discrimination, and the enforcement of international agreements.

🌐Stakeholder Diligence: In addition to vigorous and pro-active adherence to FCPA, KYC, and other diligence norms, we believe our investments can serve as funding alternatives in markets where crime, corruption, or state-backed investments may otherwise pollute an opportunity set. We know our counterparts and our counterparts' counterparts.

🌐Constructive Solutions: We believe realizing the value of an investment should make all parties better off, and as such, we seek to engage legitimate stakeholders to maximize the long-term prospects for prosperity, dignity, and success.

🌐Early Engagement: We seek to preempt the emergence of threats in the so-called Gray Zone by taking control of risk surfaces that are likely targets for mischief, fraud, incompetence, corruption, crime, or malicious competition.

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Extra Expertise

We screen sources for priority information, useful lodestars, points of weakness and leverage, and unconventional catalysts.

We operate in the tradition of 97E (ninety seven echo), a designation long-used by real world, top-level American military intelligence.

Our skills were carefully honed in tense, real-time crisis situations, and they include unique perspectives on cyber threats, human intelligence, data processing, and imagery and signature analytics.

Research

Our process begins outside
Wall Street

Cultivating on-the-ground relationships
Sorting through key local sources
Analyzing satellite imagery, big data, digital records, and proprietary databases
Hunting for anomalies, fragility, exploits, and adjuvants

Rendition

Our process delivers value amid disorder

Engaging policymakers proactively
Identifying paths to resolution of distal disruptions
Upending incentive structures to promote our objectives
Creating value out of situations fraught with distractions

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