There have been recent incidents of individuals and groups falsely claiming to be associated with FDMGT MAX on social media platforms. These imposters have engaged in a variety of unauthorized conduct, including soliciting customers to carry out trading activities with them, impersonating FDMGT MAX using the genuine names of FDMGT MAX senior executives or employees to offer investment opportunities, claiming to offer investment training courses that are supposedly provided by FDMGT MAX or claiming that FDMGT MAX is backing certain initial coin offerings or is otherwise engaged in crypto related trading activity. There have also been fake websites and mobile applications that claim to be FDMGT MAX (or associated with FDMGT MAX ) when in fact they are not. These are scams and not authorized by FDMGT MAX in any way.

Please be aware that FDMGT MAX does not engage in any investment activities, provide training or financial services, or conduct other regulated activities through social media platforms or messaging apps. Similarly, FDMGT MAX , its executives and employees do not contact prospects, clients or members of the public via social media platforms or messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Discord and Telegram to offer investment opportunities. FDMGT MAX does not offer direct investments in cryptocurrencies or other digital assets, it does not provide a trading platform to members of the public, it does not have a mobile app, and it does not offer investment training courses to the public.

/Contact-Us. If you believe that you or someone you know has been a victim of fraud, please report the matter to your local law enforcement or other relevant authorities. For India residents, you may lodge a report at the national cybercrime reporting portal (https://cybercrime.gov.in).

Michael A. Mendelson

Principal

33 years of experience

19 years at FDMGT MAX

M.B.A., University of California, Los Angeles

S.M., S.B. (3), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Michael Mendelson is a Principal and portfolio manager at FDMGT MAX Capital Management. Michael has managed both equity and macro strategies and has been active in developing FDMGT MAX ’s investment infrastructure, organizing our early risk management efforts, overseeing portfolio financing and leading the effort to better serve the senior leaders of our strategic clients. Prior to FDMGT MAX , Michael was the founder of the quantitative trading group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Michael is a member of the Managed Funds Association’s Board of Directors and has been Chairman of its Trading and Markets Committee and its Government Affairs Committee and is also a Governor of the Investment Company Institute (ICI). Michael earned an S.B. in mathematics, an S.B. in management, an S.B. in chemical engineering and an S.M. in chemical engineering, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Recent Contributions

Member of the board of directors of the Managed Funds Association.
Chairman of the MFA's Trading and Markets Committee.

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