PDT Partners, LLC

PDT Partners, LLC is an investment management firm based out of New York City. The company was established in 1993 by founder Peter Muller, who is still with the company today acting as its CEO. PDT Partners would become an independent investment management firm beginning in 2013 and has expanded to have an additional location in London. The firm has grown from its inception to now have 142 employees of which 57 are investment professionals. PDT Partners utilizes a quantitative model driven investment approach to trade liquid assets on a global scale. The company conducts its research internally and focuses on risk management and trade execution. The firm focuses on the “belief that rigorous scientific investigation can unveil inefficiencies in financial markets,” developing systematic trading quantitative strategies. PFT Partners is a community of researchers, technologists as well as business professionals and values depth, expertise, and intellectual innovation. PDT Partners invests most heavily in the information technology and consumer discretionary sectors, each of which make up almost a fifth of its total asset allocations, and also invests in the health care, finance, energy, industrials, consumer staples, and materials sectors, among others to a lesser degree, in order of decreasing allocation. The company’s top 10 holdings make up approximately 11% of its total holdings and the firm has a high turnover rate of 89%. PDT Partners holds over $6.7 billion in total assets under management spread across 17 accounts, all of which are discretionary accounts. Although its total number of accounts has stayed the same in recent years, its total assets under management has experienced great changes, most recently increasing from under $5 billion in 2014 to its current amount. PDT Partners currently provides its services exclusively to pooled investment vehicles and takes its advisory fees in the form of a percentage of assets and various performance based fees.