Sea Otter Advisors is a SEC registered investment advisor. The firm leverages its proprietary trading models and proven decision-making framework to maximize risk-adjusted returns.
Sea Otter’s seasoned team has an average of 25 years of investment experience across multiple market cycles. Our team shares a common language, culture and set of values. This allows us to be nimble and collaborative while managing through the investment life cycle with a critical view on risk management.
Founder and Managing Member
Mr. Smith is a Co-Founder and Managing Member at Sea Otter Advisors, where he jointly oversees all aspects of the firm’s investments and operations. Prior to forming Sea Otter, Mr. Smith was a Partner at Del Mar Asset Management, where he focused on special situation investment strategies. Prior to Del Mar, he was a Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Evolution Capital Management, where he was responsible for all trading and risk management. Mr. Smith is one of the founders of Susquehanna International Group, where he was responsible for all of Susquehanna’s Asia-Pacific operations and intimately involved in risk-taking at all levels. Mr. Smith also served as a member of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Business Conduct Committee. Mr. Smith spent the first eight years of his career at GWF Enterprise, where he directed proprietary trading activities in index and equity options on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. Mr. Smith graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, New Jersey.
Founder and Managing Member
Mr. Fahey is a Managing Member at Sea Otter Advisors, where he oversees SPAC and commodity trading. He manages Sea Otter’s SPAC strategies in both public and private opportunities, focusing on sponsorship and anchor opportunities. Prior to Sea Otter, Mr. Fahey spent seven years in oil trading at CIBC. While at CIBC, he gained first-hand experience with North American hedging flows and spearheaded the construction of the team’s fundamental models while gaining a deep knowledge of the underlying commodity. Mr. Fahey started his career as a floor trader at Susquehanna International Group on the NYMEX, COMEX and NYBOT exchanges. Mr. Fahey holds a Bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a MBA from Columbia University.
MEASURED, DISCIPLINED, ALL-SEASON APPROACH
We focus exclusively on sound opportunities while carefully sizing our positions according to specific risk-reward parameters.
We aim to rapidly adjust our exposure to capitalize on volatility during periods of dislocation and complex event-driven opportunities.
We proactively de-risk and put investments on hold, even if it means running a light portfolio for an extended period when opportunities are not apparent.
We strive to construct a portfolio from differentiated sources of uncorrelated risk.
CONNECTED BY A COMMON LANGUAGE AND SET OF VALUES
Centered on trading through a sharper decision-making lens, which protects us from biases and keeps us collectively focused.
We utilize each team member as a critical sounding board before initiating and exiting trades.
Our agile team can shift capital across various strategies to monetize structural value gaps in all markets.