Risk Management

In fact, we believe that not losing money is as important to investment success as finding profitable trades. Losing trades are inevitable in investment management; the key to investment success is minimizing the impact of those losing trades on your portfolio. Accordingly, we view risk management as one of our most important jobs.

Our risk management approach has several elements. Overall, we are keenly focused on downward loss potential in everything we do, examining the risk of individual positions as well as sector and overall market exposure. York also uses a number of risk mitigation trading techniques, including extensive hedging and stop-loss disciplines. Finally, the firm has historically paid careful attention to prudent portfolio diversification and has used only modest leverage in all of its investment programs. Taken together, these risk strategies have allowed the firm to enjoy low volatility and preservation of capital in its investment programs.