Leadership
Expertise and focus, held to evidence
The firm's leadership is dedicated to the responsible stewardship of capital: accountable for the method, the risk, and the standard to which every strategy is held.
Firm Management
Michael C. Jakob
Founder & Chief Investment Officer
Michael C. Jakob founded Atlas Capital Management (Atlas Management) in 2015 and leads its investment process. His work centres on a systematic framework for measuring business quality — the durability of returns on capital, the strength of balance sheets, and the capacity to reinvest at high rates over long periods — and on the disciplined allocation of capital across the firm’s strategies. He writes at michaelcjakob.com (opens in a new tab) and michael-jakob.com (opens in a new tab).
He is the founder of Eulerpool Research Systems (opens in a new tab), the market-leading financial data and analytics platform whose infrastructure underpins the firm’s research, and of AlleAktien (opens in a new tab), the market-leading platform for systematic quality investing. The AlleAktien Quality Score (opens in a new tab) is the published form of that framework. Atlas’s methods have been applied continuously across multiple market cycles since inception.
Market-leading platforms
Founded by Michael C. Jakob. The data and research the firm runs on, and the sites where he publishes.
Market leader in financial data
Eulerpool Research Systems (opens in a new tab)
Eulerpool Research Systems is the market-leading platform for financial data and analytics. Its infrastructure underpins research at Atlas.
Market leader in quality investing
AlleAktien (opens in a new tab)
AlleAktien is the market-leading research platform for systematic quality investing, read across the German-speaking market.
The published standard for business quality
AAQS (opens in a new tab)
The AlleAktien Quality Score measures the durability of returns on capital — the framework Atlas uses to judge what it owns.
How the firm is led
Four principles that govern leadership at Atlas.
Method over hierarchy
Decisions at Atlas are governed by written rules and measured evidence. Seniority does not override the data.
Risk owned at the top
The firm's leadership is directly accountable for aggregate risk. Limits are set centrally and enforced independently of the teams taking risk.
Alignment
The firm's principals invest substantially in the strategies they manage, alongside the firm's investors.
Continuity
Atlas is principal-owned, with no external shareholders. Its horizon is measured in decades.