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 Nickel Digital Asset Management
About Nickel Digital Asset Management
London's award-winning Nickel Digital is a regulated investment manager at the forefront of merging traditional finance with the fast-paced digital asset market. Our expertise lies in leveraging proprietary execution and risk management systems to create and implement advanced quantitative trading strategies. We have designed a diverse portfolio of funds specifically for institutional clients, capitalizing on the volatility of digital asset markets. Through the adaptation of arbitrage and fundamental analysis techniques from traditional financial markets, we generate non-directional or venture-style returns, while maintaining a monthly liquidity profile. Our commitment to transparency and execution efficiency is unwavering, as we strive to define and uphold industry-leading standards, including UK and US regulatory approvals and transparency principles.
2020
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
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
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
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
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
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.
2023
Nickel Digital had the Best 36-Month Risk-Adjusted Performance (for AUM >$25M and <$100M) at the Hedgeweek European Digital Assets Awards 2023 for its flagship fund, the market-neutral Arbitrage Fund.
2023
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.
2023
Spear's wealth management ranked Anatoly Crachilov as one of the best cryptocurrency advisers for high-net-worth individuals in the UK based on his experience with Nickel Digital and digital asset investment management.
2023
Winner of the best digital asset manager in Europe award due to deep expertise in leveraging proprietary execution and risk management systems to create and implement advanced quantitative trading strategies.
2023
Nickel's Digital Gold Fund won the award for the best-performing long-only fund from Crypto Fund Research based on performance information from more than 250 crypto hedge funds and VCs.
2023
Nickel Digital Digital Liquid Venture was ranked in the top 10 for the Best Digital Asset Fund Net Return for December 2023 by Barclay Hedge
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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.
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.
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Nickel's wider team of 30 combines decades of investment experience gained at the top Wall Street banks and global hedge funds.
Investment funds
INVESTMENT FUNDS
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A non-directional, multi-strategy fund that wraps a diversified portfolio of typically hard-to-access external managers into a single investible fund. Underlying strategies are fully systematic and include arbitrage, high frequency market making, statistical arbitrage and relative value. The fund relies on inhouse, robust multi level risk management infrastructure, allowing for 24/7 real-time risk control across multiple execution venues. The fund targets double digit returns with high Sortino ratio.
This fund captures structural expansion of the Web3 and digital assets space. Portfolio construction is based on a research-intense approach of investing in liquid tokens of Layer 1, Layer 2 protocols and DeFi applications. The portfolio allocation is based on analysis of their use cases, competitive position, liquidity criteria, developers activity and a range of network ratios. The fund is designed to achieve VC-style returns over a cycle, while offering monthly liquidity.
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.
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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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Anatoly Crachilov
CEO & Founding Partner
A banker with 27 years of experience in investment management and private equity. Prior to joining Nickel, Anatoly was with the Investment Management Division of Goldman Sachs dealing with portfolio construction for professional family office clients. Prior to that, he worked for JPMorgan, HSBC, and EBRD.
Anatoly studied International Business Relations at the University of National and World Economy in Sofia and earned an Executive MBA degree from the University of Oxford in 2009.
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Anatoly studied International Business Relations at the University of National and World Economy in Sofia and earned an Executive MBA degree from the University of Oxford in 2009.
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Michael Hall
CIO & Founder Partner
A portfolio manager with over 30 years of experience of trading macro, commodity and fixed income relative value portfolios in hedge funds and investment banks. Prior to joining Nickel, Michael ran crypto arbitrage strategies for a prominent London-based family office, FIRV portfolio for a multi-billion hedge fund in Madrid and was part of an arbitrage prop desk at Bankers Trust and later Deutsche Bank.
Michael graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester and obtained an MBA in Finance from Wharton Business School in 1992.
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Michael graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester and obtained an MBA in Finance from Wharton Business School in 1992.
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Alek Kloda
PM & Founding Partner
A portfolio manager with 14 years of experience in macroeconomic research and the hedge fund trading. Prior to joining Nickel, he worked for Macrosynergy Partners, Toscafund and Liongate. He independently set up a successful algorithmic cryptocurrency arbitrage system, which became one of the core trading systems at Nickel Digital.
Alek studied Maths at Oxford University and graduated with an MSc in Economics (Distinction) and a BSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics (First Class) from the LSE. He also completed two years of a PhD in Economics (ESRC Doctoral Scholarship) before co-founding Nickel Digital and taught Macroeconomics to MSc students.
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Alek studied Maths at Oxford University and graduated with an MSc in Economics (Distinction) and a BSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics (First Class) from the LSE. He also completed two years of a PhD in Economics (ESRC Doctoral Scholarship) before co-founding Nickel Digital and taught Macroeconomics to MSc students.
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David Fauchier
Fund Advisor, Diversified Alpha Fund
David is part of the investment committee and participates in weekly portfolio reviews, manager approvals, and capital allocation processes. Prior to the current advisory role with Diversified Alpha, David was portfolio manager of the fund, helping to launch the vehicle in 2021 and bringing an initial cohort of managers.
David holds an MA (1st Class Hons) in History with a minor in Law from the University of Edinburgh.
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David holds an MA (1st Class Hons) in History with a minor in Law from the University of Edinburgh.
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Fiona King
Managing Director Institutional Sales
Fiona King held senior positions at Lumyna Investments and Bank of America marketing their UCITS platform and prior to this was Head of Global Sales for UCITS at Rothschild Asset Management. Before this she was at Thames River Capital and at Aurum Funds. Fiona started her career at HSBC.
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Henry Howell
Head of Business Development
Henry Howell has 18 years of industry experience, beginning in Chicago and then in London. As a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, Henry co-ran the European Listed and OTC Clearing business and globally ran Electronic Futures. He then spent two years at the London-based hedge fund Eisler Capital in Business Development.
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institutional.advisors@nickel.digital
institutional.advisors@nickel.digital
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
United Kingdom
Investor Enquiries
ir@nickel.digital
Press Enquiries
press@nickel.digital
Career Opportunities - View Vacancies
human.capital@nickel.digital
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