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Management

Peter Levant, Principal

Levant Capital’s Principal, Peter Levant, has 20 years of professional experience in trading and investment research.

In 1991, Peter earned his Series 7 and 63 licenses and began his career with Dean Witter Reynolds in Chicago. In 1993, he moved to Morgan Stanley where he executed client transactions totalling more than $50 billion. In 1995, Peter joined Optima Investment Research, at that time the largest independent futures research firm. While at Optima, he opened an account for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

In 1997, Peter managed a futures trading desk at Braymore Oak Brokerage Services, a guaranteed introducing broker for First American Discount which was later acquired by MAN Financial. In 1998, he founded Northern Advisors, a proprietary investment research business. In 2007, Peter founded Levant Capital, an independent research firm serving institutional investors.

Peter earned his Masters in Finance from London Business School. He also earned a Masters of Business Administration with honors from EDHEC Business School in France. Peter attended Northwestern University, School of Continuing Studies, and majored in Economics. He also completed the Commodities Institute at the Chicago Board of Trade and the Professional Traders Institute at the Chicago Board Options Exchange.

Peter also believes in bottom up research. While performing fundamental economic analysis, he traveled to more than 35 countries on four continents.