Advisory built on long-standing institutional relationships.
Contango Partners is a capital markets advisory firm working with asset managers, portfolio managers, family offices, private investors, and businesses worldwide.
Every engagement is direct, personal, and built on relationships developed across market cycles.
About
27 Years of Institutional Relationships
Contango Partners was founded by Andrew Peña, with 27 years of institutional financial services experience — including 17 years as a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, and most recently as Global Head of Capital Development at Eisler Capital.
Andrew has developed a global network of senior investment professionals throughout his career — maintaining direct, decision-maker relationships with sovereign wealth funds, institutional pension funds, family offices, and UHNW principals worldwide. These are long-standing relationships built across multiple market cycles, grounded in transparency, discretion, and consistency over time.
Services
What We Do
01
Capital Markets Advisory
We advise alternative asset managers — hedge funds, private investment vehicles, and companies — on their global capital development strategy, investor positioning, and client relationships. This covers the full advisory lifecycle: from strategy narrative development and investor targeting, through ongoing investor relations, to capital stewardship over the long term. We work on a retained basis with a small number of clients at any time, with hard exclusivity by strategy. We also provide strategic IR advisory to portfolio managers operating within multi-manager platforms or managing separately managed accounts — helping them build an independent institutional identity, develop their investor narrative, and where appropriate, connect with institutional co-investors.
Hedge FundsPrivate EquityPrivate CreditReal AssetsFamily OfficesPrivate Capital
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Portfolio Manager Recruitment
We provide retained executive search services to hedge funds, financial institutions, trading companies, and asset managers seeking senior portfolio managers and investment professionals — with particular depth across commodity and macro strategies. Drawing on relationships built across both sides of that market over nearly three decades, we offer genuine practitioner knowledge and direct candidate relationships rather than database-driven search. This service is operated independently from our advisory divisions.
We provide select clients — family offices, UHNW principals, and institutional investors — with access to private investment opportunities across alternative strategies. These introductions are made on a relationship basis, drawing on Contango Partners' network of managers, founders, and investment professionals built over nearly three decades.
Family OfficesPrivate CapitalUHNWAlternative Strategies
Our Approach
How We Work
Every engagement at Contango Partners is built on the same foundation — we work with a set number of advisory clients at any time, with hard exclusivity by strategy. This is not a constraint — it is the structure that makes every relationship we maintain meaningful, whether we are advising a hedge fund manager, a family office, a new business, or an investor.
Founder-led
Every engagement is led personally by Andrew Peña. The relationships that underpin this firm were built over decades — and they are maintained the same way.
Discretion as standard
The nature of capital relationships — institutional, private, or otherwise — demands the highest standards of confidentiality. We treat every conversation — with managers, investors, family offices, and counterparties — with the same discretion we would expect in return.
Contact
Get in touch
We welcome enquiries from asset managers, portfolio managers, family offices, private investors, and business creators.