Jeffrey Tarrant
| Jeffrey Tarrant | |
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| Born | |
| Residence | Manhattan, NY |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
University of California, Davis (BA, 1978) Harvard Business School (MBA, 1985) |
| Occupation | Founder, Altvest (1996-00) Founder, CEO & CIO, Protégé Partners (2001-present) Founding partner, Candescent Films (2010-present) |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Website | protegepartners.com |
Jeffrey Tarrant is an American investor. He is the founder, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of Protégé Partners, a firm specializing in seeding and early stage investing in hedge funds. He is also a founding partner of film production company Candescent Films.
Tarrant received a BA in economics from the University of California, Davis in 1978, and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1985.
After graduating from Harvard Business School, Tarrant joined Berkeley Asset Management in Berkeley, California, as vice president, co-managing the Sequoia Fund, one of the first fund of hedge funds in the United States. He went on to manage assets for private family fortunes, including Sidney Kimmel (film producer and founder of the Jones Apparel Group). For the Thurn und Taxis family of Germany, he managed their marketable securities hedge fund portfolio and investments in the US, UK and Europe.
In 1996, Tarrant founded Altvest, the first Web-based directory of hedge funds and managers. InvestorForce purchased it in 2000, and it was made a division of investment research firm Morningstar in 2006.
Tarrant served from 1998 to 2002 on the board of directors of The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF), an investment advisory firm for charitable foundations, and advised TIFF on building its first hedge fund of funds. In 2001, Tarrant was introduced to Ted Seides by TIFF founder David Salem, which led to the formation of Protégé Partners. Based in Manhattan, Protégé specializes in seeding and early stage investing in hedge funds. Tarrant initially served as chief investment officer and chief executive officer, with Seides as president. Seides took over as co-CIO in 2011 until leaving the firm in 2015, at which point Tarrant resumed his role as sole CIO. The University of Texas and the New Jersey pension system were early investors with Protégé. As of 2016, Protégé manages $1.6 billion.
Tarrant is featured in Gregory Zuckerman's 2009 nonfiction book The Greatest Trade Ever, about John Paulson's use of credit default swaps to bet against the US subprime mortgage bubble. Tarrant and Paulson were discussing issues with the housing market as far back as 2004. Tarrant was the lead investor in Paulson's new fund, putting in $60 million on behalf of Protégé clients in 2006 (out of a total of $147 million Paulson would raise).
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