Christopher Cruden

Upon leaving University, Christopher Cruden attended The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and was commissioned into The Gordon Highlanders in 1975.
In 1980, he began his business career as a gold analyst with an investment bank in South Africa. In 1983 he joined Dean Witter, Reynolds Inc. as a securities salesman based in the U.S. and it was during this period that he became involved with the Alternative Investment Industry.

In early 1988 he returned to the U.K. and became a Director of Adam, Harding and Lueck Asset Management Ltd (AHL). This firm is now amongst the largest and best known systematic, trend-following hedge fund managers in the world. After the sale of this firm to Man International in 1990, he became Head of Managed Futures and Options for a major U.S. investment bank in London and founded the Derivative Strategy Group within the ASH Group of Prudential Securities in New York.

Mr. Cruden became Managing Director of Tamiso & Co. LLC in New York during 1993.  He was responsible for currency management products, research and trading. During this period he substantially enlarged the firm’s foreign exchange activities and co-developed the Currency Overlay Program. In 1999 Tamiso and Man International established a joint venture based around the currency trading system of Tamiso.

He established Insch Capital Management SA in Switzerland during 2004.

Mr. Cruden is featured in the highly regarded books `Trend Following`, Covel, 2004 and `Investing with Hedge Fund Giants`, Chandler, 1998 and a number of other publications.