Roddy Sparks

Atlantic Asset Management

Founded in 1992, Atlantic Asset Management ("Atlantic") is a multi-strategy asset management firm based in Stamford, CT, specializing in fixed income, overlay, and alternatives strategies for a global institutional and private clientele. Independent and employee-owned, Atlantic manages in-house $1.8 billion in fixed income strategies, including core plus, high yield, short duration, LDI and enhanced stock indexing, plus $5.6 billion in overlay strategies. Atlantic's Sponsorship Program, one of the oldest stewardship platforms in the US, provides promising young investment firms with acceleration capital, marketing & distribution, and offers back-office, systems, risk management, legal and compliance resources, plus co-management opportunities. Since 1997 this Program has included Structured Portfolio Management (Hedged Mortgage Securities), Tortoise Capital Advisors (MLPs), Fountain Capital Management (High Yield), Atlantic's TALF program, and the Clearwater Series of CDOs, among others.