Simon Vaughan

Simon has spent the majority of his career as a financial trader. After graduating from University College London (UCL) with 2:1 in Economics and Geography Simon joined UBS, where he traded on the FX spot desk.  

After leaving UBS Simon spent over 15 years as an independent proprietary trader and hedge fund manager. He set-up and ran his own profitable hedge fund called Cuatro Capital.

Simon was a discretionary macro trader who traded financial futures and FX cash. He achieved an average annual compound return of 27.68%.

Simon is also an entrepreneur, and prior to becoming part of the team at Digital Asset Management, he took a three year break from trading to jointly run StudentTenant.com, the UK's largest online student letting agent. In this time period he also completed an Executive MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology.