Monty Agarwal is the managing partner of MACM LLC. He has over 14 years of experience in trading, managing traders and risk management at Wall Street banks and hedge funds.
Prior to forming MACM, Monty was a portfolio manager in the hedge fund industry. He founded Predator Capital Management, a systematic macro hedge fund. Predator was nominated as the Best New Asian Hedge Fund and Best Asian Relative Value Hedge Fund, 2005 by Eurekahedge and Terrapinn. Monty also served as a portfolio manager for III Funds, a $5 billion hedge fund.
Prior to joining the hedge fund industry, Monty worked as an interest rate and currency trader between 1995 and 2003. He has worked in New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo and was the Managing Director and Head of Trading at BNP Paribas, based in Singapore. The desk was ranked among the top 3 by the Risk magazine in 2002.
In his 12 years of actively managing capital, Monty has never had a losing year.
Monty Agarwal holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Pennsylvania (1990) and an MBA degree, with concentrations in Finance and Business Economics, from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business (1996).
Monty is also the author of The Future of Hedge Fund Investing (John Wiley & Sons, 2009). The book ranked as high as #18 in Amazon’s Investing section rankings.
Monty is a regular guest speaker on several radio shows as well as TV shows like CNBC and BNN. His media appearances can be seen at the following link: http://www.MACMLLC.com/Book_Media.html
