Passive Growth Has Redefined Who Moves the Market

Michael Green

Michael Green has studied financial markets and market structure for over thirty years. He is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a CFA charter holder.

From 2006 to 2014, he founded and ran the New York office of Canyon Capital Advisors, a multi-strategy hedge fund then managing approximately $23 billion, where he built out global macro strategies covering more than $5 billion of exposure across equity, credit, FX, and commodity markets.

He subsequently founded Ice Farm Capital, a discretionary global macro hedge fund seeded by Soros Fund Management, and went on to manage macro strategies at Thiel Macro.

Most recently, at Simplify Asset Management, an ETF issuer founded in response to securities legislation that facilitated the inclusion of derivative strategies in ETFs, he facilitated growth from $200MM to $14B in assets under his and his partners’ tenure.

Craig Peterson

Craig is Head of Quantitative Research at Tier1 Alpha Asset Management and CEO of Tier1 Alpha Research.

He has more than 15 years of experience in quantitative finance and financial technology, with expertise spanning market structure, quantitative trading, portfolio construction, derivatives, and AI-driven financial applications.

His research is actively used by hedge funds and institutional investors to evaluate market structure, positioning, volatility, and portfolio risk.

Previously, Craig served as a portfolio manager at Convex Asset Management, Tanius Technology, and QVR Advisors, managing strategies across derivatives, dispersion, and dynamic asset allocation.

David Pegler

David is Head of Distribution at Tier1 Alpha Asset Management and a co-founder of Tier1 Alpha Research, where he contributes to market analysis, client strategy, and institutional engagement.

He brings extensive experience across global macro, equities, foreign exchange, and private capital. His work combines market structure analysis with a top-down macroeconomic perspective and a disciplined approach to portfolio risk.

Before joining Tier1 Alpha, David served for 15 years as Head of FX Strategies at a large international family office. In that role, he managed currency exposure and developed foreign exchange strategies across the firm’s global portfolio.