Michael Green

chief executive officer and chief investment officer, Tier 1 Alpha Asset Management
Bio

Michael Green has studied financial markets and market structure for over thirty years. He is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a CFA charter holder.

From 2006 to 2014, he founded and ran the New York office of Canyon Capital Advisors, a multi-strategy hedge fund then managing approximately $23 billion, where he built out global macro strategies covering more than $5 billion of exposure across equity, credit, FX, and commodity markets.

He subsequently founded Ice Farm Capital, a discretionary global macro hedge fund seeded by Soros Fund Management and went on to manage macro strategies at Thiel Macro.

He Then worked as Chief Strategist for Simplify Asset Management, an ETF issuer founded in response to securities legislation that facilitated the inclusion of derivative strategies in ETFs, he facilitated growth from $200MM to $14B in assets under his and his partners’ tenure.

Most recently he founded his own firm Tier1 Alpha Asset Management where he serves as CEO and CIO. Tier1 is a passive aware, market structure focused asset manager. The first of it’s kind.

Event Participation

Asia EQD 2026
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Asia EQD 2026

Ten years of exclusive insight. One premier derivatives event. EQD’s largest APAC gathering draws asset managers, hedge funds, family offices, insurers and sovereign wealth funds from Hong Kong, Singapore and beyond. Participants engage in high-level discussions on market trends, innovative strategies and emerging opportunities.
Global EQD 2024
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Global EQD 2024

Join cross-asset derivatives and quantitative peers to discuss innovations in portfolio construction, tail risk investing, relative value trading and portfolio diversification at the ninth annual volatility, multi-asset and systematic investing forum at Global EQD 2024 at The Wynn, Las Vegas in May.
Global EQD 2022
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Global EQD 2022

You must register to secure a spot in the room. Registrations are subject to approval.

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At Global EQD last month, Benn Eifert, chief investment officer at QVR, and Michael Green, portfolio manager, laid out the factors they see influencing volatility markets and creating a bi-modal trading environment.
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