Founded in 1986 by Tom Steyer, Farallon Capital is a San Francisco-based alternative asset manager focused on value-oriented investing across public and private markets. The firm deploys multi-strategy capital into equities, credit, distressed, real assets and private equity alongside opportunistic special-situations investments. Institutional-facing, Farallon positions itself as a long-horizon, research-driven allocator that blends fundamental analysis with event-driven and relative-value tactics.
Founded in 1986 by Tom Steyer, Farallon Capital is a San Francisco-based alternative asset manager focused on value-oriented investing across public and private markets. The firm deploys multi-strategy capital into equities, credit, distressed, real assets and private equity alongside opportunistic special-situations investments. Institutional-facing, Farallon positions itself as a long-horizon, research-driven allocator that blends fundamental analysis with event-driven and relative-value tactics.
A long-horizon, multi-strategy allocator that emphasizes value-oriented, research-driven capital deployment across public and private markets. The approach blends fundamental equity and credit analysis with opportunistic distressed, event-driven and relative-value tactics to generate asymmetric returns. Capital allocation favors flexible positioning—strategic stakes in undervalued companies, credit exposures in stressed credits, real-asset hedges, and private investments where mispricing and operational upside exist. Risk management is active and portfolio-level, using diversification, liquidity overlays and position-sizing to protect capital while exploiting dislocations and special situations.
A long-horizon, multi-strategy allocator that emphasizes value-oriented, research-driven capital deployment across public and private markets. The approach blends fundamental equity and credit analysis with opportunistic distressed, event-driven and relative-value tactics to generate asymmetric returns. Capital allocation favors flexible positioning—strategic stakes in undervalued companies, credit exposures in stressed credits, real-asset hedges, and private investments where mispricing and operational upside exist. Risk management is active and portfolio-level, using diversification, liquidity overlays and position-sizing to protect capital while exploiting dislocations and special situations.
| Trades 9076 | Longs Won 4336/9076 47% | Profit Factor 2.62 |
| Profitability | Shorts Won 0/0 0% | Standard Deviation $17.56M |
| Average Win $7.44M | Best Trade (Jul 19) $537.22M | Sharpe Ratio -60.58 |
| Average Loss -$2.6M | Worst Trade (Dec 30) -$562.55M | Z-Score -16.08 (100%) |
| Commissions $0 | Avg. Trade Length 1y 4w | Expectancy $2.21M |
| Loss Size | 100% | 90% | 80% | 70% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 10% |
| Probability of Loss | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% | <0.01% |
| Consecutive Losing Trades | 7,576 | 6,818 | 6,061 | 5,303 | 4,545 | 3,788 | 3,030 | 2,273 | 1,515 | 758 |