Laurion Capital Management LP

Laurion Capital Management is a private hedge fund sponsor based out of New York. The company was established in 2005 by Benjamin A. Smith, who continues to have an active role in the company today as its managing partner. The firm has grown from its inception to now have 52 employees of which 29 are investment professionals. Laurion Capital Management conducts its research internally, utilizing quantitative and qualitative analysis to make its investment decisions. The company focuses on generating attractive returns on capital with controlled exposure to market direction, combing its methodologies to allocate its assets across a wide variety of investments in the fixed income, commodities, and public equity markets on a global scale. Laurion Capital Management invests most heavily in the consumer discretionary sector, which alone makes up a fifth of its total asset allocations, and also invests in the finance, information technology, utilities and telecommunications, energy, health care, consumer staples, and materials sectors, among others to a lesser degree, in order of decreasing allocation. The firm’s top holdings is in Verizon Communications with none of its other holdings making up over 3% of its total allocations. The company currently holds over $5.8 billion in total assets under management spread across 7 accounts, all of which are discretionary. Both its total number of held accounts and total assets under management have grown in recent years, although its total managed assets have been somewhat volatile, with its total number of accounts growing from 3 back in 2012 to its current amount and its total managed assets growing from $5.1 billion back in 2012 to its current amount, although that amount has been as low as $3.3 billion back in 2013. Laurion Capital Management currently caters exclusively to pooled investment vehicles and takes its advisory fees from a percentage of assets and various performance based fees.