Nickel Digital Asset Management Ltd is authorised and regulated by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA"), registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC") and is a member of the National Futures Association ("NFA")

Institutional Approach to Digital Assets

Nickel Digital Asset Management Ltd is authorised and regulated by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA"), registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC") and is a member of National Futures Association ("NFA")

Institutional Approach to Digital Assets

Nickel Digital Asset Management

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ABOUT US
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About Nickel Digital Asset Management

About Nickel Digital Asset Management

Nickel Digital Asset Management is an investment manager connecting traditional finance with the digital assets market. The firm deploys highly sophisticated low-latency algorithmic trading, pursuing a range of arbitrage strategies in both spot and derivative markets, as well as a range of directional buy-and-hold products. All funds are designed with institutional clients in mind. We apply strict transparency and execution efficiency criteria across our solutions, with a commitment to maintain market-leading standards for the crypto industry.
What is Nickel Digital Asset Management?
An investment firm that offers a range of digital asset strategy solutions to institutional investors.
2020
HFM EuroHedge Emerging Managers Award
Nickel's Arbitrage Fund received the HFM EuroHedge Emerging Manager Award 2020 in the Specialist category for the quality of its risk-adjusted returns.
2021
HFM European Quant Performance Award
Winner of the HFM European Quant Performance Awards 2021 in the Digital Assets category. Nickel's flagship fund, the market-neutral Arbitrage Fund, has been recognised as the best performing crypto quant fund in Europe.
2022
HedgeWeek US Digital Assets Award - Best Digital Assets Fund
Nickel Digital was recognised for excellence among fund managers in the digital assets space by Hedgeweek US. Nickel's Digital Gold Institutional Fund was awarded the Best New Digital Asset Fund for its unique operational setup and cost efficiency.
2023
Hedgeweek 2023 US Digital Assets Award - Best Sustained Risk-Adjusted Performance (Trailing 12 Months)
Nickel's flagship Diversified Alpha Fund, a multimanager non-directional fund has been recognised for the risk-adjusted performance over 12 months period. The fund has been in existence since February 2021
2022
Pan Finance Awards - Best Digital Asset Manager Europe 2022
Nickel Digital receives the Pan Finance award as the Best Digital Asset Manager in Europe for its continued commitment to delivering best-in-class investment solutions and risk management in the digital assets space.

2022
HedgeWeek Europe Digital Assets Awards - Best 12 Month Risk-Adjusted Return
Nickel Digital was voted to have the Best 12-Month Risk-Adjusted Performance – Single Manager Funds (any AUM) at the Hedgeweek European Digital Assets Awards 2022 for its flagship fund, the market-neutral Arbitrage Fund.
2022
HedgeWeek Europe Digital Assets Awards - Best Digital Fund Overall
Nickel Digital was voted the Best Digital Asset Fund at the Hedgeweek European Digital Assets Awards 2022 by Hedgeweek readers for its continued best-in-class service to investors.
2023
Hedgeweek 2023 US Digital Assets Award - Best Sustained Risk-Adjusted Performance, (Trailing 36 Months)
Market-Neutral Arbitrage Fund, Nickel's longest fund in existence, fund has been recognised for its risk-adjusted performance over 36 months period. The fund has been trading since June 2019.
OUR TEAM
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Experienced
professionals
Established in 2018, Nickel is a trusted authority on digital asset investment
Nickel Digital is run by traders and investment professionals combining decades of investment experience gained in major Wall Street banks, including Bankers Trust, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, BofA Merrill Lynch, UBS, and Rothschild, as well as global hedge funds.

This experience is further complemented by the managers' academic backgrounds in mathematics, econometrics and computer engineering with degrees from Wharton, LSE, and the University of Oxford.
  • Anatoly
    Crachilov
    Founding Partner & CEO
  • Michael
    Hall
    Founder Partner & CIO
  • Alek
    Kloda
    Founding Partner & PM
  • David
    Fauchier
    Portfolio Manager
  • Anatoly
    Crachilov
    Founding Partner & CEO
  • Michael
    Hall
    Founder Partner & CIO
  • Alek
    Kloda
    Founding Partner & PM
  • David
    Fauchier
    Portfolio Manager
Nickel TEAM'S dna
Nickel's wider team of 32 combines decades of investment experience gained at the top Wall Street banks and global hedge funds.

Investment funds

INVESTMENT FUNDS
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  • Market-Neutral Arbitrage Fund
    The fund pursues an absolute return strategy without taking a directional view on the underlying market. By exploiting market inefficiencies and price dislocations, our strategy harnesses the extreme swings of volatility to deliver consistent positive returns within a strictly defined risk framework.
    While the fund has had no negative months since its inception, this strategy is not designed to compete with directional exposure to crypto assets but instead to deliver uncorrelated positive returns with a high Sharpe ratio.

  • Diversified Alpha Fund
    A multi-strategy fund designed to generate non-correlated returns in all market environments, relying on a range of market signals and factors. Underlying strategies include momentum and mean reversion trades, relative value, statistical arbitrage and systematic trading. The fund relies on the robust risk management infrastructure, used in arbitrage fund, allowing for 24/7 real-time risk control across multiple venues. The fund targets both higher return and higher volatility than the Arbitrage Fund.
  • DeFi Liquid Venture Fund
    This fund captures the expansion of the broader digital assets market space outside bitcoin. Portfolio construction is based on a research-intense process of selecting Layer 1 and Layer 2 protocols and exchange tokens. The portfolio dynamically allocates to exchange-traded digital tokens based on an analysis of their use cases, competitiveness, leadership position, liquidity criteria and a range of network related ratios.
  • Digital Gold Institutional Fund
    The fund allows for secure, efficient, transparent and liquid access to Bitcoin, the leading digital asset, and is designed to remove existing complexities and inefficiencies in BTC index-tracking products. We provide the market leading crypto security framework, offer daily subscriptions and redemptions, as well as trading at mid-market NAV, with no premia or discounts to the fair market price. Nickel uses sophisticated execution algorithms to minimise unwanted trading slippage, which is especially critical for large trading volumes.

ASSET SECURITY
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Asset security

Security of Digital Assets
Security of clients' assets is paramount at Nickel. The investment manager deploys an independent institutional-grade custody solution, whereby the manager has no transfer right over the funds. This control is retained jointly by the Fund Administrator and Custodian at all times.
Custodians and Prime Brokerage
In order to create a highly secure custody solution, we have partnered with the two leading custodians in the industry, US-based Fidelity and UK-based Copper. This sophisticated solution includes an air-gapped, multi-signature cross-organisation custody model with automated and secure exchange-to-custody transfers.

  • The major US asset management house was chosen as a cold storage custody provider for Digital Gold Institutional Fund, bringing its reputation and financial resources to provide trusted, secure custody. Fidelity has built an enterprise-grade custody solution for large institutional clients.
  • The award winning London-based custodian and prime brokerage house is providing critical infrastructure for secure trading at multiple exchanges, off exchange settlements and secure vault storage of digital assets. Copper can securely custody over 100 various digital assets.
  • Fireblocks is a platform that protects digital assets in transit, focusing on protecting the transmission of customers' digital assets between exchanges, counter brokers, hot wallets, and cold stores. The technology consists of the Fireblocks Network and MPC-based Wallet Infrastructure.
Asset Security in the Digital Asset Market
Founder Partner & CEO Anatoly Crachilov
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34 St James's Street, London, SW1A 1HD,
United Kingdom

Investor Enquiries
ir@nickel.digital

Press Enquiries
press@nickel.digital

Career Opportunities - View Vacancies
human.capital@nickel.digital
NICKEL IS A MEMBER OF NATIONAL FUTURES ASSOCIATION (“NFA”) AND IS SUBJECT TO NFA'S REGULATORY OVERSIGHT AND EXAMINATIONS. NICKEL HAS ENGAGED OR MAY ENGAGE IN UNDERLYING OR SPOT VIRTUAL CURRENCY TRANSACTIONS IN A COMMODITY POOL. ALTHOUGH NFA HAS JURISDICTION OVER NICKEL AND ITS COMMODITY POOLS, YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT NFA DOES NOT HAVE REGULATORY OVERSIGHT AUTHORITY FOR UNDERLYING OR SPOT MARKET VIRTUAL CURRENCY PRODUCTS OR TRANSACTIONS OR VIRTUAL CURRENCY EXCHANGES, CUSTODIANS OR MARKETS. YOU SHOULD ALSO BE AWARE THAT GIVEN CERTAIN MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE PRODUCTS, INCLUDING LACK OF A CENTRALIZED PRICING SOURCE AND THE OPAQUE NATURE OF THE VIRTUAL CURRENCY MARKET, THERE CURRENTLY IS NO SOUND OR ACCEPTABLE PRACTICE FOR NFA TO ADEQUATELY VERIFY THE OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL OF A VIRTUAL CURRENCY OR THE VALUATION ATTRIBUTED TO A VIRTUAL CURRENCY BY NICKEL.