QW Capital

Established in Q2 of 2008, QW Capital is a London-based hedge fund management firm. It manages equity portfolios following a non-discretionary market and sector neutral quantitative strategy. The firm was founded by Gianluca Lobefalo and Isabel Falkenberg. Prior to founding QW Capital, Mr. Lobefalo worked as an executive director at Morgan Stanley International, at Schroders Investment Management, and at JP Morgan, where he started his career in 1997. Ms. Falkenberg previously worked as a director at Credit Suisse and UBS in London and at Espirito Santo in Lisbon. QW Capital's quantitative models draw on a multidisciplinary approach that combines key financial principles with mathematical and statistical analysis from a variety of fields, ranging from mathematical neuroscience and statistics for medical diagnosis to physics and astrostatistics. Mr. Lobefalo and Ms. Falkenberg are joined at QW Capital by Dr. Federico Turkenheimer, who holds a chair in Neuro-Imaging at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London and was previously a reader in mathematical neuroscience at Imperial College, London. Dr. Turkheimer carries out quantitative research and risk analysis for the firm.