Our History

2002 ARIAD Asset Management GmbH is founded by Carsten Lund and Klaus Walczak in order to develop unique quantitative investment strategies. They had been working together in management roles within several asset management units of the Munich Re Group since 1993.

2003 ARIAD offered its first proprietary products to its clients, on an exclusive basis.

2005 ARIAD was granted its official licence from the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin).

2007 ARIAD offered its first fund-of-funds hedge program.

2008 ARIAD offered its first infrastructure product.

2008 ARIAD founded ARIAD IP Capital GmbH, a spin-off with a strong focus on investment opportunities within the field of Intellectual Property.

2009 Perry J. Kaufman joined the team. Mr. Kaufman had been working with us in the development of our proprietary trading program from 2001 to 2003.