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About the Role
Caxton Associates is seeking experienced Portfolio Managers specializing in agricultural or soft-commodity markets. This role involves managing significant capital, implementing rigorous risk management, and contributing to a collaborative, research-driven environment focused on generating alpha.
Responsibilities
- Independently manage a significant capital allocation by creating, executing, and monitoring an alpha-driven investment strategy informed by differentiated commodity-market views.
- Construct portfolios targeting asymmetric returns and limited correlation to traditional capital markets, translating fundamental research into appropriate instruments, spreads, and risk exposures.
- Implement robust risk management, continuously assessing positions, investment theses, downside scenarios, and exit criteria.
- Collaborate effectively across the global investment team, communicating evidence, assumptions, and changes in market views.
- Ensure strict compliance with applicable regulations and internal risk controls.
- Build and challenge crop-year and marketing-year balances covering production, consumption, trade, and stocks, reconciling official estimates, export inspections, crop surveys, and revisions.
- Model acreage, yield, weather, crop development, and regional seasonality with explicit uncertainty; analyze demand and substitution through feed, crush, biofuel, or processing economics as relevant.
- Assess quality and origin differentials, freight, storage, export and policy constraints, harvest flows, commercial hedging, speculative positioning, exchange stocks, and delivery mechanics; express views through basis, calendar spreads, processing margins, inter-commodity relationships, or outright positions.
Requirements
- Proven portfolio-management track record with strong investment acumen and a Sharpe Ratio greater than 1.5.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience managing capital, preferably within a hedge fund.
- Ability to thrive in a collaborative global team, with the highest standards of ethics and integrity and sound decisions under pressure.
- Deep expertise in a defined agricultural or soft-commodity complex, including physical supply chains, price formation, contract mechanics, and relevant commercial behavior.
- Ability to independently build and validate crop or demand models, quantify forecast uncertainty, and link balance-sheet revisions to executable trade decisions.
- Hands-on quantitative capability in Python or an equivalent language and strong spreadsheet modelling; ability to source, clean, test, and explain data, assumptions, and model limitations.
- Practical understanding of liquidity, positioning, execution costs, risk limits, and the circumstances that would invalidate an investment thesis.
Skills
- Python
- Spreadsheet modelling
Location
- London
- New York
- Singapore
- Monaco
- Dubai
- Bengaluru
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum 5 years of experience managing capital
About the Company
- Caxton Associates, founded in 1983, is a global trading and investment firm.
- Caxton Associates’ primary business is to manage client and proprietary capital through multiple liquid global hedge fund disciplines.
- Our broad mandate allows us to trade across global markets and instruments, with a strong focus on alpha generation for our clients.