Clarium Capital

Clarium Capital Management LLC is an American investment management and hedge fund company pursuing a global macro strategy. Clarium was founded in San Francisco in 2002 by Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and early investor in Facebook. Clarium's assets under management grew to $8 billion in 2008, after which a series of unprofitable investments and client redemptions resulted in its assets declining to between $300-400 million as of 2011.

Company

The company moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City so that it was closer to Wall Street. Clarium is an employee-owned firm that invests in public equity (primarily in micro-cap companies), fixed income, and hedging markets. The company's activities were temporarily put on hold while Thiel worked at PayPal, and then activities resumed in 2002. Unlike most funds, which charges clients about 2% of their total assets invested, Clarium charges a performance fee of 25% of the increase in the fund's net asset value. In June 2010 Thiel closed the New York office to consolidate the company and its employees into one location at its San Francisco office. The firm employs fundamental and quantitative analysis to make its investments. It also conducts in-house research to make its investments.

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