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 grew from $250MM at inception of the Element Capital Fund to a peak of $18 billion in 2019. Since that time, the firm has conducted five separate proactive capital returns of external capital, totaling approximately $15 billion, and now predominantly manages assets for its principals.
Mr. Talpins pioneered the 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. The term Modern Macro has since been adopted by many other fund managers in the global macro investing space. Over its 20-year history, Element Capital has been recognized as a top performer in the alternative asset management industry and as a leader within global macro 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, The Jeffrey M. Talpins Foundation, which is dedicated to conserving open spaces and wildlife, strengthening U.S. economic and foreign policy, fostering educational opportunities for children, and other strategic initiatives. The Foundation has representation on many charitable boards that help advance the Foundation’s mission.
Mr. Talpins serves on the board of American Prairie, the International Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council, and the boards of the Yale Tobin Center for Economic Policy and the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Mr. Talpins is the Founder of the N7 Initiative and created the N7 Foundation, on which he serves as Chairman. The N7 Initiative is dedicated to broadening and deepening regional integration between Israel and Arab and Muslim states.
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.