We believe that investing is a “geometric” and not an “arithmetic” discipline — where smart diversification matters.
Principalium is a Swiss based, privately owned, regulated investment boutique focused on “niche”, liquid, capacity-constrained “All-Weather” investment solutions, employing quantitative and behavioral based trading models to fulfil its mission.
A boutique built around a single conviction: durable compounding comes from diversification that is intelligent, not merely broad.
Principalium is a Swiss based, privately owned, regulated investment boutique focused on “niche”, liquid, capacity constrained “All-Weather” investment solutions employing quantitative and behavioral based trading models to fulfil its mission.
Our aim is to provide returns during market corrections and minimize drawdowns, to participate in rising markets, and to effectively capture the compounding of returns over the long term.
All-Weather
Investment approach
Futures
Liquid, exchange-traded markets
FINMA · NFA · CFTC
Regulated & registered
Switzerland
Wollerau, Schwyz
The Firm’s Edge
The edge comes from combining intelligence across time horizons and asset classes within liquid, exchange-traded futures.
Algorithmic Trading
Medium- and short-term algorithmic trading in volatility, financial and commodity-based liquid futures — systematic, repeatable and disciplined.
Quantitative & Behavioral Models
Quantitative and behavioral based trading models designed to exploit structural and behavioral inefficiencies across market regimes.
Multi-disciplinary Team
Extensive investment research, behavioral finance, trading, risk and operations experience, with a track record across a full market cycle.
Strategy & Mission
Our aim is to provide returns during market corrections and minimize drawdowns, attempt to participate in rising markets, and to effectively capture the compounding of returns over the long term.
- 01Provide returns during market corrections.
- 02Minimize drawdowns through smart diversification.
- 03Participate in rising markets.
- 04Capture the compounding of returns over the long term.
A multi-disciplinary team
Extensive investment research, behavioral finance, trading, risk and operations experience, with a track record across a full market cycle.

Alex Orus
Founder

Alexander Passow, PhD
Research & Quantitative Analysis

David Urraca
Quantitative Research

Zohair Asif
Research, Quantitative Analysis & Algorithmic Trading
Regulatory Standing
Principalium Capital AG is a licensed asset manager of collective investment schemes by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), and a member of the National Futures Association (NFA), registered as a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
- Office
- Principalium Capital AG
Wiesenstrasse 13
CH – 8834 Schindellegi - Telephone
- +41 79 404 6777