Caxton Associates: Platform Profile
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Overview
Caxton Associates is a global macro hedge-fund manager founded in 1983.
Current legal adviser:
- Legal adviser: Caxton Associates LLP
- CRD: 333153
- SEC number: 801-136549
- SEC registered investment adviser: Yes
- SEC registration effective: 2026-06-23
May fit better for
- professional and qualified global-macro investors;
- allocators seeking discretionary macro;
- investors seeking activity across liquid asset classes;
- investors comfortable with derivatives and leverage;
- investors able to meet private-vehicle requirements;
- investors seeking a long-established macro specialist.
May fit less well for
- ordinary retail investors;
- investors seeking public ETF liquidity;
- users treating a $10M Caxton Macro reference as universal;
- investors seeking a published firmwide fee schedule;
- users expecting one static asset allocation;
- investors interpreting an absolute-return objective as a guarantee.
The manager's current legal name changed in 2025
UK company record:
- Current name: Caxton Associates LLP
- Former name: Caxton Europe LLP
- Former name end date: 2025-04-07
Current IAPD also lists Caxton Europe LLP as an alternate/prior name.
SEC registration became effective June 23, 2026
Current IAPD:
- CRD: 333153
- SEC number: 801-136549
- SEC registration effective: 2026-06-23
The firm's Form ADV filing used for the current regulatory-AUM reference is dated June 15, 2026, shortly before registration became effective.
Current regulatory AUM is $71.56B
Form ADV filings show:
- Regulatory AUM: $71.56B
- Regulatory AUM as of: 2026-06-15
- Discretionary accounts: 19
Current Q2 2026 13F reported value was approximately $5.3B.
Caxton is explicitly global macro
Current first-party homepage:
- Global macro: Yes
- Founded: 1983
- Active across all liquid asset classes: Yes
Current research inputs include:
- macroeconomics;
- market technicals;
- politics and policy;
- individual company analysis.
Absolute-return language is an objective, not a promise
Current first-party goal is to deliver consistent absolute returns irrespective of market environment.
Caxton Macro (USA) LLC has a $10M current Form D minimum
Current February 19, 2026 Form D:
- Vehicle: Caxton Macro (USA) LLC
- Manager: Caxton Associates LLP
- Minimum investment accepted from outside investor: $10M
- Investment Company Act exclusion: 3(c)(7)
- Securities Act exemption: Rule 506(b)
A second 2026 vehicle also shows a $10M minimum
Caxton Cadence (USA) LLC's May 2026 Form D states:
- Caxton Cadence USA minimum: $10M
This corroborates a high private-vehicle access hurdle but still does not create a universal manager minimum.
Current Form D identifies Andrew Law as chairman and CEO
Current Caxton Macro Form D:
- Chairman CEO: Andrew Law
- COO CRO: Matthew Wade
- CFO: Chanelle Nicholls
Store as current officer references.
Website is explicitly not an investment offer
Current Terms of Use:
- Public website is offering document: No
The site states that its content is informational and is not an offer or solicitation to buy or sell an interest in a Caxton-managed fund.
Investor documentation exists separately from public content
Current disclosure pages include privacy materials specifically for current, former and prospective fund investors.
Current responsible-investment materials describe a multi-PM structure
Current/recent Caxton regulatory disclosures describe a multi-strategy, multi-portfolio-manager business and note that no single ESG framework applies identically across all teams/funds.
Assessment
Caxton is the cleanest pure global-macro specialist in Batch 73.
The current review needs two date-sensitive identity facts:
- Caxton Europe LLP became Caxton Associates LLP in April 2025;
- U.S. SEC registration for Caxton Associates LLP became effective June 23, 2026.
The access facts are also unusually clear at vehicle level: both current Caxton Macro (USA) and Caxton Cadence (USA) Form D filings show $10M minimums.
That is still not enough to publish a universal firm minimum.
Offering structure and liquidity
| Structure | Private global-macro investment manager using privately offered fund vehicles and multiple portfolio-manager teams across liquid asset classes; investor access is through private subscription documentation rather than a public self-service product. |
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