Jeffrey Talpins is the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer and Founder of Element Capital. Mr. Talpins provides strategic direction for Element and is responsible for all major investment decisions for the investment funds managed by Element.
Mr. Talpins pioneered Element’s Modern Macro style of global macro investing, an evolved approach that integrates macro fundamental, systematic, and relative value analysis in the formation and implementation of financial market views. Over the last decade, Element Capital has been consistently recognized as a top performer in the alternative asset management industry and as a leader within the global macro space through various awards and accolades.
Before he launched the Element Capital Fund in 2005, Mr. Talpins was the Head Trader of Citigroup’s fixed income options franchise, which managed one of the largest proprietary risk exposures within the company’s capital markets business. Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Talpins began his career at Goldman Sachs where he traded agency mortgage options and pass-through securities.
Mr. Talpins has been the driving force behind the charitable efforts at Element Capital, including a donation matching program for employees and a reduced fee share class for charitable investors.
The Jeffrey M. Talpins Foundation is dedicated to conserving open spaces and wildlife, strengthening U.S. economic and foreign policy, creating educational and other opportunities for children to achieve their full potential, conserving open spaces and wildlife, and various additional initiatives.
Mr. Talpins serves on the boards of Yale’s Tobin Center for Economic Policy and the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and is involved with a number of other policy institutes as well. Mr. Talpins is the Founder of the N7 Initiative and serves as the Chairman of the N7 Foundation. Mr. Talpins created the N7 Foundation and launched the N7 Initiative in order to broaden and deepen regional integration between Israel and Arab and Muslim states.
Mr. Talpins graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University in 1997, having earned a B.S. with Distinction in Economics and Applied Mathematics.
