JRC Capital Management Consultancy & Research GmbH is a financial institution focusing on quantitative investment strategies for trading in the most liquid assets, for instance Forex markets. Founded in Berlin in 1994, JRC’s business fields are: • the independent asset management for institutional investors and wealthy private clients • Development and implementation of algorithmic trading- and prognosis systems for Forex and Derivatives • Development of funds and structured products in co-operation with renowned financial institutions • Development of Overlay Management Strategies for Currency Risk Hedging Apart from the front office, JRC's R&D department with its highly skilled team of specialists who combine economic knowledge and financial modelling expertise with mathematical and IT-background is central to the company. JRC is regulated by BaFin (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht) and stands under the supervision of German Bundesbank. JRC's core competence lies in the development and utilization of highly specialized, fully automatic prognosis- and trading systems that serve as the basis for their trading and asset management. The focus of activities lies on algorithmic trading of alternative investments as currencies and derivatives. Through their engagement in EU and national scientific research projects JRC constantly benefit from the exchange with leading researchers and receive new impulses for their core-activities through this co-operation.