StellarThree LLC, (S3) is a boutique firm created for asset owners and advisors. Based in New York, S3 can give your team a colleague and resource experienced with policy; recognizing the central role accurate translation of fiduciary obligations play into formulating appropriate investment objectives; ultimately S3 supports your work in the areas of portfolio construction, sourcing, diligence, and monitoring of investments. 

S3 is and intends to remain an agile and focused boutique practice. It’s proposition is most powerful for those institutions and investors that seek an on-call team member for enhanced sourcing, monitoring and diligence, with a NYC base and North American reach.

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Challenging dogma is central to achieve decoupling from the tail risks that come with investor clustering behaviors, and it is the core tenant for bringing a fresh perspective to portfolio construction, diligence or reporting challenges. 

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BACKGROUND

 

The founding partner, Anders Dahlstrom began his professional finance career in NYC in the  late 1990’s working for Venture Capital firm Endpoint Biocapital, Sdn Bhd, Nordic Bank’s, where he was active in institutional client services, as client executive for SEB NY with responsibility for US financial institutions. He was subsequently head of research and CO-CIO for the VCGIM Global Pension fund. At VCGIM, Mr. Dahlstrom led the work on alternatives and portfolio construction until the start of S3 mid 2019 

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Over the years, meeting investment related objectives from both a buy' and sell side' vantage point has formed a view that the best framework for long term investment success is created by remaining humble and in a continuous learning mode, while seeking to challenge higher order assumptions around investment management S3 thus assists in the progression of methodology in addition to execution of specific sourcing and monitoring objectives.

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Current focus areas include quantifying and reducing GDP and cyclical over exposure in long duration asset selection, constraints based portfolio construction and efforts to contribute improved left tail diversification across asset classes.