Boutique options fund

Risk-defined options trading with institutional discipline.

Baikal Capital Partners is a boutique hedge fund focused on listed options, structured around risk-defined positioning, volatility dislocations, and strict portfolio construction. Since inception, the strategy has achieved 80% ARR through selective deployment, disciplined sizing, and repeatable execution.

Founder & Portfolio Manager: Yana Ankudinova

Structured upside Convex payoffs with predefined risk.
Institutional discipline Portfolio limits, liquidity filters, and catalyst-based underwriting.

Clear positioning for qualified investors.

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This page follows that model with direct language about what the fund does, how risk is framed, and where additional diligence materials would live.

Volatility-centric sourcing

Opportunities are screened through implied-versus-realized volatility, event calendars, and skew relationships to isolate favorable asymmetry.

Defined risk construction

Every position is sized within preset drawdown limits, liquidity thresholds, and portfolio concentration rules before execution begins.

Selective capital deployment

Capital is reserved for periods where pricing, catalyst visibility, and risk-reward align instead of forcing constant exposure.

Founder profile

A launch-ready hedge fund site should clearly identify the principal, present a concise investment narrative, and make contact information easy to locate.

Portrait of Yana Ankudinova
Leadership

Yana Ankudinova

Founder & Portfolio Manager

Yana Ankudinova is the Founder and Portfolio Manager of Baikal Capital Partners, a boutique hedge fund focused on options trading and disciplined, risk-defined portfolio construction.

She brings a product-led approach to investment management, shaped by leadership experience in healthcare technology and product management roles that have been publicly associated with MRO and Moxe Health.

Her work at Baikal Capital Partners centers on selective opportunity sourcing, structured downside control, and a repeatable process for underwriting asymmetric trades in liquid options markets. She is based in New York.

She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in biology and from the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health with an MPH in healthcare policy and management.

Website identity

baikalcapitalpartners.com

Investor portal

Private materials area

Investor portals are commonly used as secure hubs for reports, updates, statements, and communications, typically linked from the public-facing firm website.

Quarterly letters

Commentary and market positioning updates.

Statements & documents

Tear sheets, account files, and reporting archives.

Secure access

Password-protected entry point for qualified investors.

Design rationale

Institutional tone, boutique feel.

Specialized hedge fund web agencies and finance design references consistently emphasize professionalism, restrained aesthetics, mobile responsiveness, and a website that reflects the seriousness of the firm.

Minimal navigation Strong hierarchy Responsive layout Clear trust signals
Growth path

Ready for legal and diligence layers.

A compliance-friendly adviser website should surface contact information and disclosures clearly, avoid misleading statements, and treat performance and risk language carefully. This version adds a legal modal and a more formal inquiry flow to move in that direction.

Disclaimer gate Privacy policy Form CRS / filings DDQ request

Execution process

Orderly process presentation matters because sophisticated visitors need to understand how the strategy moves from sourcing to review without excessive jargon.

01Screen

Monitor volatility, dispersion, and event-driven setups across liquid underlyings.

02Structure

Select spreads, defined-risk expressions, or hedged directional trades based on payoff efficiency.

03Size

Allocate capital through preset loss limits, scenario analysis, and cross-position correlation checks.

04Review

Evaluate realized edge, execution quality, and post-trade behavior to refine repeatability.

Investor inquiry

Request an introduction

This form is structured to feel closer to a real investor intake flow, with space for institution details, accreditation context, and diligence requests.

Suggested contact route: info@baikalcapitalpartners.com

Launch checklist

The remaining items before a real launch would typically include legal review, privacy and cookie policies, a domain-connected email workflow, and an investor login integration.

Legal review Privacy policy CRM routing Secure portal