Institutional asset management built on systematic strategies, battle-tested infrastructure, and over 100 years of combined experience across global capital markets.
Magnum Wealth Defender brings together three principals with distinct, complementary expertise: systematic trading, institutional capital raising, and financial product architecture. Together, we are building an asset management platform that delivers real solutions to investors who refuse to accept that market declines are the cost of being invested.
Every strategy is rules-based, quantified, and repeatable. No discretion. No emotion. Pure systematic execution.
Risk management is the architecture, not an afterthought. Every position defended. Every scenario anticipated.
Built from day one for institutional capital. The infrastructure, compliance, and governance that allocators require.
Anric Blatt has spent over 30 years designing, building, and scaling asset management businesses, fund platforms, and institutional infrastructure across four continents. He has structured over one hundred fund vehicles across more than a dozen international domiciles and raised in excess of $5 billion from institutional and private investors. He is Founder and Chairman of Global Fund Exchange Holdings, a position held since 2005.
Eric Dugan brings over 30 years of experience in global macro, systematic trading, and investment research spanning every major liquid asset class and time zone. He is the creator of the Defender strategy, a systematic approach to S&P 500 futures that has operated continuously since 2008. His career began in 1993 trading for hedge fund legend Monroe Trout, featured in New Market Wizards as the manager producing "The Best Return That Low Risk Can Buy." He is an NFA-registered Commodity Trading Advisor with a BS in Finance from the University of Rhode Island.
Lauralouise Blatt brings 35 years of investment management experience, having raised in excess of $5 billion across global markets. She is Principal and CEO of Global Fund Exchange Holdings, a position held since 2006. Previously she served as Partner and COO at FNY Capital, the alternative investment arm of First New York Securities. Her background spans financial product development and launch, fund platform architecture across multiple strategies, global distribution across five continents, and senior advisory relationships with high-net-worth and family office clients.
Anric Blatt is a global investment management executive who has spent over 30 years designing, building, and scaling asset management businesses, fund platforms, and institutional infrastructure across four continents.
His career spans the complete lifecycle of institutional investment businesses: strategy design, fund structuring, team assembly, technology and systems architecture, marketing and brand development, compliance frameworks, and global distribution. He has personally structured over one hundred fund vehicles across Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, Ireland, Malta, Switzerland, Bermuda, Singapore, Japan, and other established domiciles. He has overseen due diligence on more than 10,000 investment managers and raised in excess of $5 billion from institutional investors, family offices, and private banks across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.
Mr. Blatt founded Infiniti Capital AG in Zurich, growing it into a multi-billion dollar multi-manager platform with operations in Zurich, London, Hong Kong, New York, Grand Cayman, and Geneva. He pioneered a performance-fee-only alignment model that eliminated fixed management fees entirely. Earlier in his career, he built institutional distribution and operational capabilities across the Pacific Rim at Kenmar and Forsyth Partners, working out of Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Singapore. He also served at Horvath Financial Services and founded Trans Africor Holdings, a pan-African industrial conglomerate operating across twelve sub-Saharan countries.
In 2005, Mr. Blatt established Global Fund Exchange Holdings in the Cayman Islands as a strategic single family office. Over the past two decades, the firm has developed controlled multi-manager platform architecture, systematic capital attraction infrastructure, and strategic partnerships with specialist managers across multiple jurisdictions and asset classes. His technology and marketing expertise has been central to the development of proprietary systems for institutional positioning, content distribution, and automated capital attraction.
Mr. Blatt is the author of Unpacking the Giants and The Stoic Thinking Man's Journal, and co-author of The Tower of Capital Attraction.
At Magnum Wealth Defender, Mr. Blatt is responsible for strategic direction, business design, technology and marketing infrastructure, institutional partnerships, and team leadership.
Eric Dugan brings over 30 years of experience in global macro, systematic trading, asset management, risk management, system design, and investment research covering the world's primary liquid asset classes: stocks, bonds, energies, metals, grains, and currencies across the Pacific Rim, European, and US time zones.
The first six years of Mr. Dugan's career were spent trading, conducting research, and managing a trading desk for hedge fund legend Monroe Trout. Trout, featured in the book New Market Wizards, is a pioneer in quantitative trading, best known for consistently making money in any market condition and producing "The Best Return That Low Risk Can Buy." Within his first year, Mr. Dugan was named Manager, responsible for all trading during Pacific Rim hours from Hong Kong. He was entrusted with his own discretionary trading strategy and was the only trader in the operation awarded that responsibility.
Mr. Dugan subsequently spent nine years at Willowbridge Associates alongside Phil Yang, developing trading strategies and systems across all asset classes globally while managing a team of 15 traders, research analysts, programmers, and operations personnel.
Fifteen years with two legendary hedge fund managers across every asset class and time zone gave Mr. Dugan a deep understanding of the interconnected dependencies, patterns, and behaviors that drive global markets. This research and direct experience form the foundation of the Defender strategy, a systematic, rules-based approach to S&P 500 futures that has operated continuously since 2008 through every major market environment.
Mr. Dugan is an NFA-registered Commodity Trading Advisor. He attended the University of Rhode Island College of Business, earning a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in Finance.
At Magnum Wealth Defender, Mr. Dugan is responsible for all aspects of trading strategy design, evolution, implementation, and risk management.
Past performance is not indicative of future results. Futures trading involves substantial risk of loss.
Lauralouise Blatt brings 35 years of investment management experience to Magnum Wealth Defender, having raised in excess of $5 billion across global markets. She serves as Principal and Chief Executive Officer of Global Fund Exchange Holdings and Global Fund Advisors, positions held since 2006. Her career includes billions in institutional product development across multiple asset classes and jurisdictions.
Mrs. Blatt's Wall Street career includes serving as Partner and Chief Operating Officer at FNY Capital, the alternative investment arm of First New York Securities, where she built scalable hedge fund platforms and managed complete operational infrastructure. She also served as Managing Director at EGS Partners, Director at Croesus Capital Management, and Chief Operating Officer at Argonaut Capital Management.
Her expertise encompasses institutional product architecture, operational excellence, strategic brand development, and the intersection of capital markets and entrepreneurial execution. She has built global distribution networks and brand strategies spanning five continents and maintains long-standing advisory relationships with high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and institutional investors.
At Global Fund Exchange, Mrs. Blatt has spent nearly 20 years overseeing financial product development, institutional operations, regulatory compliance, and investor relations across multiple domiciles and fund structures.
She is Co-Founder Emeritus of The Little Baby Face Foundation, established in 2002.
At Magnum Wealth Defender, Mrs. Blatt is responsible for corporate strategy, operations, compliance, and the overall direction of the business.
Multiple access points, each tailored to specific portfolio objectives and investment mandates.
Reduce portfolio correlation to risk assets, generate short-side alpha, and improve risk-adjusted returns. The Defender strategy installs alongside your existing portfolio as a systematic protective layer.
Direct access to systematic strategies through individually managed accounts. Full transparency, customizable parameters, and personal service.
Onshore and offshore hedge fund structures focused on absolute return and high alpha generation. Institutional governance, independent administration, and full regulatory compliance.
You focus on your zone of genius. We build the business around it: compliance, regulation, operations, automation, marketing, and management.
Established 2005. Built multi-billion dollar fund platforms across Cayman Islands, US onshore, and nearly every established fund domicile on earth. Two decades of structuring, launching, and managing institutional investment products across five continents. Capital raising, financial product architecture, global distribution, operations, and compliance.
Founded by Eric Dugan. Systematic trading strategies built on global macro signals and 30+ years of market pattern recognition. Home of the Defender strategy: a systematic approach to S&P 500 markets running continuously since 2008 through every major market environment. NFA Registered CTA.
We welcome inquiries from institutional allocators, family offices, accredited investors, qualified purchasers, and specialist traders seeking a strategic partner.