The founding story of Arctic

The founder

Hi, call me Zane. I’m a London-based professional investor and CFA charterholder, managing a credit fund of over €3 billion.

I love hiking, climbing, skiing and sailing, though living in London I mostly just go running. You’ll often find me in Sweden, Switzerland and Hong Kong.

The idea for Arctic

One Christmas I spent two weeks in northern Sweden with no laptop and no stable internet. So I wrote my investment thesis on paper, did the calculations by hand, and placed limit orders at my own target prices.

The old-school approach surprised me. Slow, yes, but away from the market’s noise and gossip I was extremely clear-headed. I wanted to recreate that process with the convenience of technology, not its noise, so anyone can stay calm managing their wealth.

I then researched extensively and interviewed passionate investors, high-net-worth individuals, private bankers and family offices around the world, to understand the problems we share.

The result is Arctic: a well-crafted toolset that feels complete out of the box and solves real problems, for everyone who wants to feel calm and confident managing their own money.

I hope you like our approach to managing wealth.

Zane(Founder & CEO)

My investment style

As a credit investor I’m naturally value-oriented, and that carries into my personal investing.

I take a core-satellite approach: passive ETFs as the core, for long-term goals such as retirement, and active bets for shorter-term goals, such as funding my next sailing competition. I mostly avoid the large caps that dominate the popular indices, and my active bets are idiosyncratic, with lower correlation to the broader market.

I control risk through position sizing: each active bet is kept small enough that being wrong costs little.