Passport Capital

Passport Capital is a San Francisco-based global investment firm founded by John H. Burbank III in 2000 . The firm seeks to achieve superior risk-adjusted returns through a combination of macroeconomic analysis, fundamental research, and quantitative tools . Passport Capital employs top-down, macroeconomic analysis to identify durable, secular changes not reflected in asset prices and conducts rigorous fundamental research to identify individual securities that most effectively express the firm's investment views . The firm primarily focuses on privately negotiated investments in Portfolio Companies and Underlying Funds . Direct investments may be made through special purpose vehicles, and investments may include common stocks, preferred stocks, warrants, debt, bonds, convertible securities, fixed-income securities, digital assets, and other assets .