General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> August 10, 2009

Managed Futures Investing – Grant Jaffarian – Efficient Capital Management, Llc

Grant Jaffarian is the Chief Investment Officer at Efficient Capital Management, LLC, and a member of the Executive Management Committee. He supervises allocation decisions and is actively involved in the research, manager search and due diligence processes. Prior to joining Efficient in April 2004, Mr. Jaffarian was the Founder and Managing Partner of Petra Intraday Trading Systems, an emerging high frequency commodity trading adviser. His career in the alternative investments field began in 2001 as a trader and researcher at Analytic Investment Management NV of Mechelen, Belgium. Mr. Jaffarian holds a Series 3 license and has more than seven years of industry experience. Profile
TWST: Please start with an overview of Efficient Capital Management and your

investment philosophy there.

Mr. Jaffarian: Efficient Capital has been around since 1999. Our sole objective

is