EPFC

What EPFC does

EPFC Capital Partners LLC is a Delaware-incorporated Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) founded in 2018 and headquartered at 410 Park Avenue in New York City. The firm operates as a boutique team of global credit markets specialists offering two systematic investment strategies to professional institutional investors: the EPFC Risk Neutral Relative Value Credit Strategy, which captures price dislocations in the global credit market via long-short positions across geographic market segments and industries while targeting uncorrelated credit-, FX-, and IR-risk-neutral returns with a long volatility profile; and the EPFC Tail Hedge Strategy, which uses rigorous analytical methods to identify carry-optimal asymmetric return opportunities in credit derivatives.

The firm's underlying technology combines quantitative models with active risk management and systematic trading execution. Its strategy architecture is proprietary, with novel systematic methodology around identifying and capturing credit market dislocations. The business model is a classic institutional asset management model: EPFC generates revenue through investment management fees (typical AUM-based management fees plus performance/carry) charged to professional institutional investors, with direct field-sales engagement as its go-to-market motion. The firm is led by three partners — George Ivanyan (Partner, CEO, COO, CCO), Anatoly Nakum (Partner, Head of Portfolio Management and Trading), and Gokul Chebiyam (Systematic Portfolio Manager) — making this a very lean operation focused on a narrow institutional mandate.

EPFC markets itself primarily through its corporate website (epfc.capital) and direct relationship-based outreach to institutional allocators, family offices, and fund managers globally. The firm is SEC-registered and operates with no disclosed parent company, no external funding rounds, no subsidiaries, and no disclosed partnerships, indicating a privately held, founder-owned boutique.

Name

EPFC

Legal name

EPFC Capital Partners LLC

Website

https://epfc.am

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

EPFC Capital Partners is a SEC-registered investment advisor founded in 2018 in New York City, offering two systematic credit strategies — a risk-neutral relative value credit strategy and a tail hedge strategy — to professional institutional investors globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Alternative Investment Management (Credit Relative Value)

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940), Other Financial Investment Activities (5239)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Emerging Markets Credit (Sovereign/Quasi/Corp) (FSAHAGAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

High-Yield Corporate Credit (FSAAAHAC)

Keywords

• Credit relative value
• Investment management services
• Credit derivatives trading
• Systematic portfolio management
• Tail hedge strategies

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Investment Management Fees: EPFC Capital Partners generates revenue through investment management fees charged to institutional investors for managing the EPFC Risk Neutral Relative Value Credit Strategy and EPFC Tail Hedge Strategy portfolios.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

EPFC Capital Partners is a Registered Investment Advisor that manages two systematic credit-focused investment strategies for professional institutional investors: the EPFC Risk Neutral Relative Value Credit Strategy, which captures price dislocations through long-short positions across global credit market segments and industries, and the EPFC Tail Hedge Strategy, which uses credit derivatives to construct a carry-optimal asymmetric return profile portfolio. The firm combines proprietary quantitative models with active risk management and systematic trading to deliver uncorrelated credit, FX, and interest-rate risk-neutral returns.

Product overview

EPFC Capital Partners is a registered investment advisor offering two credit-focused investment strategies. The EPFC Risk Neutral Relative Value Credit Strategy provides systematic, market-neutral returns through long-short credit positions across global markets and industries. The EPFC Tail Hedge Strategy focuses on identifying asymmetric opportunities in credit derivatives markets to optimize portfolio returns for institutional investors. Both strategies are designed for professional institutional investors and employ quantitative models combined with active risk management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• EPFC Risk Neutral Relative Value Credit Strategy: A systematic strategy that captures price dislocations in the global credit market via a portfolio of long-short positions across geographic market segments and industries, designed to offer uncorrelated credit-, FX- and IR-risk-neutral returns for institutional investors.
• EPFC Tail Hedge Strategy

Products and services

• EPFC Risk Neutral Relative Value Credit Strategy A systematic investment strategy that captures price dislocations in the global credit market through a portfolio of long-short positions across geographic market segments and industries, designed to offer professional institutional investors uncorrelated credit-, FX- and interest-rate risk-neutral returns with stable performance across market conditions and a long-volatility profile.
• EPFC Tail Hedge Strategy An investment strategy that applies a rigorous analytical approach to identifying efficient opportunities in credit derivatives markets to create and manage a carry-optimal, asymmetric-return-profile portfolio for professional institutional investors.

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Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• ExodusPoint Capital: Multi-strategy hedge fund with significant credit and fixed-income relative value exposure, run by former Millennium partners. Comparable to EPFC in systematic credit trading and institutional focus.
• Capula Investment Management: London-based hedge fund specializing in credit relative value and fixed-income macro strategies, directly comparable to EPFC's systematic long-short credit RV approach and institutional client base.
• Rokos Capital Management: Credit-focused macro hedge fund founded by Chris Rokos, employing systematic and discretionary approaches across global credit markets — a close analog to EPFC's credit RV model.
• Cairn Capital: Credit-specialist asset manager offering long-short credit and credit RV strategies to institutional clients, with comparable product mix and target investors to EPFC.
• Eisler Capital: Multi-strategy hedge fund with a strong credit RV and macro book, founded by former credit traders. Highly comparable to EPFC in target strategies and institutional allocator focus.
• Pine River Capital Management: Credit-focused hedge fund running systematic and discretionary credit RV strategies globally, with comparable institutional focus and boutique-to-mid scale profile to EPFC.
• Marble Bar Asset Management: London-based credit-focused hedge fund running long-short credit and special situations strategies, closely comparable to EPFC's institutional credit RV mandate.

Broad incumbents

• Millennium Management: Industry-leading multi-strategy platform running significant credit RV pods. Operates broadly in the same credit relative value space but at vastly larger scale and with far broader strategy coverage than EPFC.
• Point72 Asset Management: Large multi-strategy hedge fund with substantial credit and fixed-income relative value franchises, competing for the same institutional allocator dollars as EPFC.
• Citadel (Citadel LLC / Citadel Global Credit): Global multi-strategy hedge fund with a dedicated Global Credit business running systematic credit RV strategies. Comparable in strategy type but far broader in scope and capital base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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