Lucus Advisors LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser that seeks to generate sustainable high risk-adjusted returns for its partners through three different but complementary investment offerings: - Red Alder: An equity multi-strategy hedge fund that employs both activist and event-driven strategies coupled with robust risk management. - Kernel: A family of equity hedge funds that utilizes a proprietary process of conducting fundamental analysis thoroughly and efficiently to create a diversified portfolio of stocks with constantly refreshed investment theses free of decision biases that generate extraordinarily high returns with minimal risk. Since its launch in March 2013, the strategy has generated annualized net returns of over 25% and never a down year. - Coppice: A multi-manager strategy that invests in managers across asset classes including fixed income, equities, and hard assets in order to capture opportunities as they arise. Our Mission We strive to develop a dynamic culture that develops resilient, differentiated, and high-performing investment strategies that are aligned with our partners’ interests. We encourage the Lucus team’s intellectual curiosity through pioneering research. We relentlessly seek to improve our firm. We direct our actions with adherence to venerable virtues. We affirm the need to invest in the construction of a long-standing institution that is capable of thriving after the involvement of the founders. Our Focus In order to generate sustainable high risk-adjusted returns, we concentrate our specific skill sets into specialized approaches that allow us to maximize our productivity and probability of success while maintaining an efficiently sized team. Our Philosophy Our business philosophy is based on the habitual practice of our Seven Virtues: Integrity, Clarity, Industry, Introspection, Humility, Ingenuity, and Adaptability.