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Name and title

Gregory Saey, Founder & CEO, ARTE Group

Short biography

Gregory Saey is a derivatives and volatility specialist, in the markets since 2007. He is the Founder and CEO of ARTE Group, where every strategy runs on the group’s own capital first, in its family office, before any is managed for external investors.

Long biography

Gregory Saey has been in the markets since 2007. He started as an FX market maker for large corporates and, over eleven years in banks and asset managers, moved into rates derivatives, then vanilla and exotic options on equities, rates, FX, cross-asset and hybrids, through the subprime crisis, the euro sovereign crisis and Brexit. He founded ARTE in 2018. Today he heads his own family office and is the Founder and CEO of ARTE Group: the family office runs more than 25 strategies on house capital, and the strategies that can absorb outside capital are managed for external investors by ARTE One Ltd, an Approved Investment Manager supervised by the BVI Financial Services Commission. He writes on macro read through derivatives and volatility. He is a graduate of EDHEC Business School.

Speaking topics

  • What option prices say before the headlines
  • VIX and VSTOXX: indices, futures and the gap between them
  • Volatility crises from the inside: 2008, 2011, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2024
  • Event risk: elections, referendums, central banks
  • Aligning a manager with investors: house capital first

Biography in French

Gregory Saey est spécialiste des dérivés et de la volatilité, sur les marchés depuis 2007. Il est le fondateur et CEO d’ARTE Group, où chaque stratégie tourne d’abord sur le capital du groupe, dans son family office, avant que certaines ne soient gérées pour des investisseurs externes.

Requests

Interview and speaking requests: send a message on LinkedIn. linkedin.com/in/gregorysaey