Surface designs ETFs that combine compelling market exposures, intelligent fund structure, and sophisticated portfolio techniques in an accessible exchange-traded security.
The ETF is a remarkably flexible piece of investment infrastructure, combining market exposure, potential tax efficiencies through its creation and redemption mechanics, and sophisticated portfolio techniques in a single exchange-traded security.
Build around exposures with a clear role in a portfolio — assets, markets, strategies, and themes investors want to own.
Use the ETF wrapper intelligently. Creation and redemption mechanics can provide structural advantages, including potential tax efficiencies.
Options and other portfolio techniques can shape return profiles, create income potential, and provide exposures that may be difficult to implement directly.
Surface starts with a clear investor problem — an exposure worth owning, a portfolio outcome worth pursuing, a structural advantage worth building around. The fund design follows from that problem.
The ETF structure is part of the investment thesis. Fund construction can shape exposure, return characteristics, tax efficiency, and how sophisticated investment techniques are delivered.
Surface Capital Management is an investment management company designing exchange-traded funds built to take advantage of the flexibility of the ETF structure.
Surface was founded by Chris Thompson, who began his career at JPMorgan Chase before joining the financial services practice at the Corporate Executive Board (NYSE: EXBD), where he worked with senior executives across wealth management, asset management, and commercial banking. He holds a BA in Economics from Georgetown University and an MBA from Duke University.
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