Entities

Magnetar Capital

Nickname
Magnetar
Entity Type
Location
Founding Date
2005

Magnetar Capital is a leading alternative asset manager that aims to break common barriers among various investment styles, including quantitative and qualitative, short and long duration. The firm is purposeful in how it sources, analyzes, structures, and manages investment risks to deliver diversifying returns to investors. Magnetar invests across geographies, in both public and private transactions.

Systematic Investing

Magnetar Capital defines event-driven as strategies seeking to profit from investments in companies experiencing a material change in their ownership or capital structure. Its HRP focus is to efficiently extract the risk premia associated with event-driven strategies. Its event-driven HRP strategies currently include Systematic Risk Arbitrage and Systematic SPAC.


Alternative Credit and Fixed Income

Magnetar aims to generate stable returns across economic regimes, with low correlation to the broader markets.


Energy and Infrastructure

Magnetar invests in high-quality energy/infrastructure and renewables companies led by talented management teams – including companies positioned to benefit from climate change, carbon reduction, and energy efficiency initiatives.


Assets under management: $12.9 billion (as of January 2021)