Anato Investment Group, LLC

Anato Investment Group, LLC is an innovative, alternative investment management company focusing on extracting value from anomalies within the structured product markets. Anato specializes in identifying and creating asymmetric opportunities and capitalizing on inefficiencies. Anato’s comprehensive analysis of deal structure, asset cash-flows (past and postulated future) and legal intricacies provides greater insight in the identification of opportunities. Anato seeks to deliver strong-risk-adjusted returns without the use of conventional leverage (leverage will mainly only be used for hedging purposes). Anato is led by Bret M. Ackerman with more than 18 years of experience in structured products securitization and the trading and placement of bonds, primarily at Bear Stearns and Barclays.

Anato is deeply rooted in philanthropy. Translated from its Sanskrit origins, Anato means ‘No Self’ or ‘No ego’. It is the embodiment of this philosophy that dictates Anato to create a philanthropic trust and contribute a large percentage of performance based fees to both the growth of the trust and direct distribution to philanthropic entities.

BRET M. ACKERMAN, Founder and Chief Executive Officer / Chief Investment Officer

Bret M. Ackerman is the founder of Anato Investment Group, LLC. He leads the investment of securities, management of the fund’s portfolio, and review of every trade. He has more than 18 years of combined structured finance and structured products trading experience. He has held positions in loan origination, structuring, securitization of debt instruments and securities, and the sourcing and facilitating of direct investment opportunities. Bret’s career began at Bear Stearns in 1997 where he grew into the role of vice president and was responsible for the hedging and trading of a $12 billion portfolio of firm-managed assets across the product spectrum. In 2006, Bret joined Barclays Capital as the head of Non-Agency RMBS Securitization. At Barclays, Bret was responsible for the creation and implementation of the Private Label/Non-Agency RMBS securitization business. He managed a team that both sourced and securitized $17+ billion of private label RMBS, and was responsible for t he hedging and trading of a multi-billion dollar book of assets. During this time, Bret was named Trader Monthly’s “Top 30 Traders Under 30 Years Old” on Aug. 17, 2007. Following Barclays, Bret was a managing director at MF Global, head of RMBS Trading at StormHarbourSecurities, and most recently, head of RMBS Trading at Odeon Capital Group. Bret was recruited by and became a member of Binghamton University’s men’s soccer team. Concurrently, he received his Bachelor of Science in business administration from the School of Management, with a concentration in finance and management information systems. In 2014, Bret received presidential recognition in being awarded The President’s Volunteer Service Award® from the Corporation for National and Community Service. This honor came from his responsibility to the community, the non-profit sector, and the Office of the President of The United States. Specifically, Bret focused on job placement for people with extreme hea ring impairment, as well as individuals previously incarcerated. He also volunteered his time organizing and implementing post-Hurricane Sandy rehabilitation projects in Staten Island.