Jeffrey Tarrant
Jeffrey Tarrant | |
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Born | April 4, 1956 Stockton, California, U.S. |
Died | (aged 63) Bridgehampton, New York, U.S. |
Alma mater | University of California, Davis (BA, 1978) Harvard Business School (MBA, 1985) |
Occupation(s) | Founder, Altvest (1996-00) Founder & Chairman, Protégé Partners (2001-present) Founding partner, Candescent Films (2010-present) Founder & Chairman, MOV37 (2017-present) |
Years active | 1986–2019 |
Website | mov37.com |
Jeffrey Glynn Tarrant (April 4, 1956 – August 5, 2019) was an American investor. He was the founder and chairman of MOV37 and Protégé Partners, firms specializing in identifying, seeding and early stage investing in investment funds. He was also a founding partner of film production company Candescent Films. He died from brain cancer in 2019.[1][2]
Education
Tarrant received a BA in economics from the University of California, Davis in 1978, and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1985.[3]
Career
Early career
After graduating from Harvard Business School, Tarrant joined Berkeley Asset Management in
In 1996, Tarrant founded Altvest, the first Web-based directory of hedge funds and managers.[6][7] InvestorForce purchased it in 2000,[8][9] and it was made a division of investment research firm Morningstar in 2006.[6][10]
Protégé Partners
Tarrant served from 1998 to 2002 on the board of directors of The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF), an investment advisory firm for charitable foundations, and advised TIFF on building its first hedge fund of funds.
Tarrant is featured in Gregory Zuckerman's 2009 nonfiction book The Greatest Trade Ever, about John Paulson's use of credit default swaps to bet against the US subprime mortgage bubble. Tarrant and Paulson were discussing issues with the housing market as far back as 2004. Tarrant was the lead investor in Paulson's new fund, putting in $60 million on behalf of Protégé clients in 2006 (out of a total of $147 million Paulson would raise).[16]
Buffett bet
In early 2008,
Digital currency
Tarrant was one of the backers of the
MOV37
Around 2016, Tarrant began focusing on machine learning and data science, exploring hedge funds built on concepts of
He founded MOV37 in 2017, an autonomous learning and data analysis firm which invests in emerging hedge funds. ALIS managers create a fully autonomous system that uses unstructured non-financial data, data science, record-low processing and storage costs, and machine learning that is constantly learning and improving based on incremental data.[24][25]
Documentary films
Tarrant was a founding partner in the production company
Prior to his work with Candescent, Tarrant executive produced the 2007 documentary
Philanthropy
In 2002, Tarrant helped launch the London-based charity
In 2011, Tarrant joined the board of
Bibliography
- "Risikoreduzierung – Multi-Manager Portfolio – Nicht Traditioneller Investments" in Vermögensanlage mit ausgewogenem Risiko, Roger C. Gibson, editor, Germany: Verlag Moderne Industry, 1990.
- "Hedge Fund Investing: A Private Family Perspective" in Evaluating and Implementing Hedge Fund Strategies, Second Edition, Ronald A. Lake, editor, London: Euromoney Books, 1999.
- "The Life Cycle of Hedge Fund Managers" in Evaluating and Implementing Hedge Fund Strategies, Third Edition, Ronald A. Lake, editor, London: Euromoney Books, chapter 21, pp. 269–77, 2003.
Filmography
Year | Title | Credited as | Notes |
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2006 | God Grew Tired of Us | Executive producer | Won 2006 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize: Documentary, Audience Award: Documentary |
2007 | The Third Wave | Executive producer | |
2010 | Smash His Camera | Executive producer | Won PGA Award for Documentary Producing
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2012 | The Queen of Versailles | Co-executive producer | Won 2012 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Directing Award: Documentary; nominated for DGA Award for Documentary Directing |
Sons of the Clouds | Executive producer | Won 2013 Goya Award for Best Documentary Film | |
2013 | Who Is Dayani Cristal? | Executive producer | Won 2013 Sundance Film Festival Cinematography Award: World Cinema Documentary; Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee |
Remote Area Medical | Executive producer | Won 2013 Traverse City Film Festival Founders Prize | |
Likeness | Executive producer | Short film; nominated for 2014 Tribeca Film Festival Jury Award (Best Short Narrative)
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2014 | 1971 | Co-executive producer | Won 2015 Peabody Award finalist
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Private Violence | Executive producer | Won Candescent Award; nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form
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2017 | The Departure | Executive producer | Nominated for Independent Spirit Award : Best Documentary; nominated for Tribeca Film Festival: Best Documentary Feature
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Trophy | Executive producer | Nominated for 2017 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize: Documentary | |
2018 | Generation Wealth | Executive producer | Nominated for 2018 SXSW Film Festival Chicken & Egg Award
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Fantasy Island | Executive producer |
References
- ^ "Hedge fund investor Tarrant, who bet with Warren Buffett, dies". Reuters. 2019-08-07.
- ^ Jeffrey Glynn Tarrant-obituary
- ^ a b c d Christine Williamson, "Smaller is better," Pensions & Investments, February 4, 2013.
- ^ a b c Randolph B. Cohen and Brian DeLacey, "Protégé Partners: The Capacity Challenge," Harvard Business School Case 205-100, Brighton, MA: Harvard Business Publishing, April 2005 (rev. January 2006), p. 10.
- ^ a b c James Williams, "Protégé Partners: The art of seeding talent," Hedgeweek, December 19, 2016.
- ^ John Wiley & Sons, 2010, p. 179.
- ^ a b c d Cade Metz, "AI and Bitcoin Are Driving the Next Big Hedge Fund Wave," Wired, February 13, 2017.
- ^ "InvestorForce plans to provide users of its Altvest online hedge fund database with risk monitoring capabilities through a partnership with Measurisk, New York-based firm," Institutional Investor's Alpha, March 19, 2001.
- ^ Susan Barreto, "$10 Million Funding CalPERS buys into firm," Pensions & Investments, September 18, 2000.
- ^ "Morningstar Boosts Hedge Fund Resources With Altvest Acquisition," Archived 2017-02-24 at the Wayback Machine FIN Alternatives, July 21, 2006.
- ^ a b Claire Makin, "Small managers and mainstream strategies are keys to Protégé's success," InvestHedge, March 2010.
- ^ a b Carol J. Loomis, "Buffett's Big Bet," Fortune, November 23, 2009.
- ^ a b c Rebecca Spalding and Saijel Kishan, "Protégé's Ted Seides Joining Credit Suisse to Build Fund," Bloomberg Businessweek, July 17, 2015.
- ^ a b c Stephen Taub, "Good Guys: Protégé's Jeff Tarrant Partners with Witness to Document Injustice," Institutional Investor's Alpha, September 19, 2016.
- ^ Williamson, Christine (4 Aug 2017). "Protege's Tarrant moves into chairman role". Pensions&Investments.
- Crown Business, 2009, pp. 70, 129, 151.
- ^ Linette Lopez, "Buffett Is Still Crushing That Bet He Made Against Two Hedge Fund Managers In 2008," Business Insider, January 2, 2013.
- ^ Friedman, Nicole (30 Dec 2017). "Biggest Winner of Famed Buffett Bet? Girls Charity". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
- ^ Jordon, Steve (20 Feb 2018). "Warren Buffett gives Girls Inc. $2.2 million from an investment bet". Omaha World-Herald. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
- ^ Ilan Mochari, "MIT Announces $900,000 Bitcoin Developer Fund," Inc., March 29, 2016.
- ^ Chen, Bianca. "Anticipating the Boom-bust Cycle in Cryptocurrencies: When does an Ecosystem Become an Echo-chamber". NEXT. Retrieved 6 Oct 2018.
- ^ a b Nishant Kumar and Taylor Hall, "Why Machines Still Can't Learn So Good," Bloomberg Businessweek, November 9, 2016.
- ^ Gregory Zuckerman, "Renaissance's Man: James Simons Does The Math on Fund," The Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2005.
- ^ Fortado, Lindsay (25 May 2017). "Machine learning set to shake up equity hedge funds". Financial Times. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
- ^ Weinberg, Michael Oliver (23 April 2018). "Think twice, it ain't alright...ALIS clarified". AIMA.org. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
- ^ Ade Adeniji, "Let's Talk About This Wealthy Couple's 'Filmanthropic' Mission," Archived 2017-02-24 at the Wayback Machine Inside Philanthropy, December 3, 2015.
- ^ Indiewire, January 20, 2017.
- Fox News Latino, February 18, 2013.
- ^ Justin Chang, "Review: 'The Queen of Versailles'," The Hollywood Reporter, January 19, 2012.
- ^ Melissa Silverstein, "Lauren Greenfield and Ava Duvernay Win Top Directing Honors at Sundance," Indiewire, January 30, 2012.
- ^ John DeFore, "Who Is Dayani Cristal?: Sundance Review," The Hollywood Reporter, January 17, 2013.
- ^ Rob Nelson, "Review: 'The Third Wave'," Variety, May 18, 2008.
- ^ Alessandra Stanley, "Mystery Hotel: They Check In, but They Don’t Check Out," The New York Times, June 6, 2010.
- ^ Frank Scheck, "Smash His Camera," The Hollywood Reporter, October 14, 2010.
- ^ "Who We Are|The Angiogenesis Foundation". angio.org. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
External links
- Profile Archived 2017-02-24 at the Wayback Machine at Protégé Partners
- Jeffrey Tarrant at Bloomberg.com
- Jeffrey Tarrant at IMDb