Key Takeaways
- • Algoz, an Israeli-registered crypto asset manager, has doubled assets under management to $200 million, crossing the $100 million threshold in H1 2025 and reaching $200 million by Q4 2025.
- • The firm is launching a Cayman Islands-domiciled fund with a US feeder structure to enable North American institutional investors—including family offices, allocators, and digital asset treasury companies—to access its strategies.
- • Algoz's Market Neutral strategy accepts investments in USD, Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and Solana, generating returns with low volatility independent of broader cryptocurrency price movements.
- • As a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) registered with the National Futures Association (NFA), Algoz manages over 50 self-managed accounts (SMAs) for institutional clients; the new fund structure addresses investor mandates that restrict SMA investments.
- • The expansion targets institutional allocators seeking alternatives to passive token holdings and reflects growing demand for quantitative, volatility-managed strategies in the crypto institutional market.
Summary
To broaden its institutional investor base, Algoz is establishing a Cayman Islands-domiciled fund paired with a US feeder structure. According to CEO Tal Teperberg, the new offshore vehicle is designed to accommodate North American professional investors whose investment mandates restrict participation in self-managed account structures. "Our self-managed account solution has been superb, propelling us to over $200 million in AUM," Teperberg stated. "However, we discovered many family offices and allocators simply didn't have a mandate to invest in an SMA and so we believed the time was right to make a battle hardened and successful Market Neutral strategy available to a much wider investment group."
The new Cayman fund will offer Algoz's Market Neutral strategy, a quantitative trading approach designed to generate returns with low volatility regardless of broader cryptocurrency price movements. The fund will accept capital denominated in US dollars, Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and Solana, positioning it to serve family offices, institutional allocators, and digital asset treasury companies seeking alternatives to passive token holdings. This multi-asset-class investment flexibility addresses a growing institutional demand for volatility-managed exposure to cryptocurrency markets rather than directional bets on individual tokens.
The expansion reflects Algoz's response to structural limitations in the SMA market and underscores the maturation of the crypto institutional investment space, where regulatory clarity and alternative strategy structures increasingly drive capital allocation decisions among sophisticated investors.
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