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About Us

Core Alternative Capital, LLC

As an SEC registered investment advisor, we manage alternative investment strategies for investors through registered funds and institutional separate accounts.

Our overall objective is to generate consistent uncorrelated returns in all market environments with an enduring focus on risk management.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia,

Core was founded by David Pursell, a veteran money manager with over two decades of experience at premier firms. David built his entire career, over 20 years, managing institutional absolute return portfolios and designing risk-management overlays at some of Wall Street’s name brand firms.

The leadership team at Core has worked together for over a decade.

Advantages

For Our Investors

Core Alternative welds together the benefits of the long term compound growth of equities and the protective benefits of risk management.

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Consistent Performance

We seek consistent returns that participate in upswings and would often remain positive during market corrections.

We look to reduce volatility through the dampening effect of our risk-management process.

Our investors enjoy enhanced portfolio diversification with the uncorrelated nature of the flagship strategy.

Regardless of market swings, we implement our strategy with disciplined execution in a repeatable, dynamic process designed to deliver consistent results.

We offer transparency and liquidity via ETFs traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

Consistent Performance

We seek consistent returns that participate in upswings and would often remain positive during market corrections.

Volatility Management

We look to reduce volatility through the dampening effect of our risk-management process.

Portfolio Diversification

Our investors enjoy enhanced portfolio diversification with the uncorrelated nature of the flagship strategy.

Disciplined Execution

Regardless of market swings, we implement our strategy with disciplined execution in a repeatable, dynamic process designed to deliver consistent results.

Transparency and Liquidity

We offer transparency and liquidity via ETFs traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

Our Strategy

Over the last decade, we developed, tested and refined our strategy across a range of market environments.

  • Unlike other firms’ strategies, we actively manage short-term options to provide alpha generation and consistent portfolio protection.
  • We take a nuanced approach that maintains protection while attempting to minimize the drag of options and allow enough beta to benefit during market upswings.
  • We have a track record that has endured a range of market conditions.
  • Our active dynamic approach, decades long experience in equity hedging and risk management, and idiosyncratic perspective, allows our strategy to maximize the balance between return and risk.

We are alternative risk managers

Pursuing upside gains,
with downside protection

Our Pilars

We have built Core Alternative Capital on three key pillars that define who we are and how our approach benefits our investors.

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A Balance Between Risk & Return

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We are a team of risk managers who have designed a strategy for institutional and high-net-worth investors that seeks to generate consistent returns independent of the market environment. As one of the only firms in the actively managed alternative ETF space, we provide a way to offer truly non-correlated returns with downside protection and the potential to perform in up and down markets. Our strategy’s low-level of volatility and attractive risk-adjusted returns have positioned our firm as one of the most effective fixed income alternatives in today’s markets.

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True Non-Correlation

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Our core strategy offers effective portfolio diversification with low correlation to equities, fixed income, and other alternative strategies. The non-correlation to other asset classes is structural to our portfolio. It does not rely on market timing, a “quant” model, or getting exposure decisions right. Our portfolio protection is always there. It is how we create consistency and reliability.

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All weather strategy

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As experts in risk-management, we focus on delivering consistency in our returns. The team, with an extensive background in managing alternative investments, built a strategy that incorporated the lessons of previous downturns, and could mitigate risk on the scale of the 2008 financial crisis. Our institutional-quality investment management is the heart & soul of the firm, and as such, we prepare for all scenarios with a commitment to succeed for our clients.
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