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Tommaso Macuso

President & Chief Investment Officer

Tommaso Mancuso is Global Head of Investments at regulated digital asset investment manager 3iQ. Prior to 3iQ Tommaso co-founded and served as CIO of Shikuma Capital, a London-based global macro hedge fund. Whilst at Shikuma Capital, the firm was nominated for Best Macro Fund in the 2021 HFM Eurohedge Emerging Manager Awards.

Previously, Tommaso spent 12 years at Hermes Investment Management. He was executive director, Head of Multi Asset (a division he established in 2014) and member of the fixed income investment committee. He was responsible for managing all multi asset strategies including an original multi-asset approach to hedge inflation-risk, an absolute return strategy, and a multi asset ESG-focused strategy.

Before forming Hermes Multi Asset in 2014, Tommaso was a partner and Head of Portfolio Management at Hermes' $2.5bn fund of hedge funds business (Hermes BPK). He joined Hermes in 2008 as Head of Research and macro strategy.

From 2001 to 2008 Tommaso was Global Head of Credit and Event Driven Strategies at Pioneer Alternative Investments in New York, responsible for an allocation of more than $3.5bn out of $8bn managed in fund of hedge funds by the firm. Tommaso spent a total of seven years at Pioneer Alternative Investments.

Tommaso has published several thought pieces on portfolio construction methodologies, inflation hedging tools and long-term driver of asset correlation. Tommaso graduated from Bocconi University in Milan with a degree in international financial markets.

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