Jeffrey Talpins is the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer and Founder of Element Capital. Mr. Talpins provides strategic direction for Element and is responsible for all major investment decisions for the investment funds managed by Element. Under his leadership, Element’s assets under management have increased from $250mn at inception of the Element Capital Fund to approximately $16bn, and the investors in the Fund include some of the world’s largest endowment, pension, and sovereign wealth funds.
Mr. Talpins pioneered Element’s Modern Macro style of global macro investing, an evolved approach that integrates macro fundamental, systematic, and relative value analysis in the formation and implementation of financial market views. Over the last decade, Element Capital has been consistently recognized as a top performer in the alternative asset management industry and as a leader within the global macro space through various awards and accolades.
Before he launched the Element Capital Fund in 2005, Mr. Talpins was the Head Trader of Citigroup’s fixed income options franchise, which managed one of the largest proprietary risk exposures within the company’s capital markets business. Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Talpins began his career at Goldman Sachs where he traded agency mortgage options and pass-through securities.
Mr. Talpins oversees a charitable foundation benefiting education and conservation, as well as various other initiatives. He has been the driving force behind the charitable efforts at Element Capital, including a donation matching program for employees and a reduced fee share class for charitable investors. Mr. Talpins is also engaged in economic and foreign policy matters, serving on the boards of Yale’s Tobin Center for Economic Policy and the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and is involved with a number of other policy institutes as well.
Mr. Talpins graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University in 1997, having earned a B.S. with Distinction in Economics and Applied Mathematics.