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This is Aurian

Our investment framework is designed to deliver robustness, long-term sustainability and full alignment with investor interests.

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Mission & Vision

Aurian exists to safeguard and grow investor capital through robust systematic strategies designed to remain resilient across changing market conditions. We are building a globally respected quantitative financial house committed to disciplined execution, transparent governance and the pursuit of stable, risk-adjusted growth across market cycles.

Our Mission

Safeguard and grow investor capital through systematic strategies that remain resilient across all market conditions.

Our Vision

To be a trusted, globally respected quantitative investment firm growing through performance and integrity, not asset gathering.

Our Values

Transparency, disciplined execution, shared outcomes and long-term alignment. Everything is developed in-house.

Regulations & location

Aurian operates within the regulatory framework of the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), placing the firm inside one of the world's most established financial jurisdictions.

Based in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), Aurian benefits from a jurisdiction designed for international financial institutions, offering strong legal protections, regulatory transparency and connectivity to global capital markets.

English Common Law

Regulated by the DFSA within the DIFC's English common law framework. Legal clarity and institutional credibility.

DIFC Financial Centre

Operating from the Dubai International Financial Centre, a global hub for finance with deep capital market connectivity.

Multi-Jurisdiction Oversight

Trading infrastructure supported by partners supervised by FCA, ASIC, FSCA, FSC, FSA and SCA.

Integrated Ecosystem

Access to brokers, banks, insurers and financial service providers within the DIFC. Fully transparent.

Management

The people behind Aurian.

Sander Van der Borght

Founder & Chief of Operations

Sander founded Aurian around a single conviction: durable performance comes from process, not prediction.

At the core of his role is the translation of market behaviour into structured, repeatable strategies. Every decision is anchored in data, every assumption stress-tested, every system monitored and refined in real time. He designed Aurian's robustness pipeline, portfolio construction and the governance layer that keeps emotion out of live decisions. Every strategy is built in-house and must clear independent validation before earning capital.

His leadership philosophy is uncompromising: stay close to the data, operate with accountability and align incentives with investors. Aurian is built to compound trust alongside returns, with transparency and risk discipline as non-negotiable pillars.

Louis Dessein

Founder & Business Strategist

Louis leads Aurian's business strategy and non-trading operations, ensuring the firm's commercial structure, partnerships and growth initiatives are executed with the same discipline that governs its trading systems.

A seasoned entrepreneur, Louis has built and scaled successful ventures across multiple domains and brings a broad, high-quality professional network into Aurian's ecosystem. His exposure to entrepreneurship was lived. Shaped by direct experience and strong examples that instilled a deep respect for structure, accountability and long-term thinking.

His role anchors Aurian's expansion with commercial clarity, structural precision and a relentless focus on getting every detail right. In a firm built for longevity, there is no room for loose ends.

Our Story

Most investors are not searching for excitement. They are searching for confidence, especially when markets become uncertain. They want capital to grow without losing control. Clarity instead of complexity.
Decisions made with discipline rather than emotion. Aurian was built with that responsibility in mind.

One principle sits at the core of our philosophy: no single strategy can remain robust across all market environments. Markets evolve, volatility shifts and what performs in one regime may struggle in another.
True resilience comes from something stronger, a portfolio of complementary strategies, each designed to perform under different conditions and working together to balance risk and opportunity.

Adaptive by design. Unemotional in execution. Built to endure changing markets. Aurian exists to safeguard what matters, while allowing capital to compound with discipline over time.

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FAQ About

Yes. Aurian is licensed within the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) under the oversight of the DFSA (Dubai Financial Services Authority). Trading and execution activity is additionally supported through regulated brokerage partners supervised by the FCA, ASIC, FSCA, FSC, FSA and SCA, providing multiple layers of regulatory oversight.

The DIFC provides an internationally recognised financial centre built on English common law, with a modern and progressive regulatory framework. It offers the legal clarity, institutional credibility and jurisdictional stability suited to a structured quantitative investment operation with a global investor base.

Yes. Founders allocate their own capital within the same systematic framework and under the same risk architecture as all other participants. There is no parallel structure, no preferential access and no separate mandate. Incentives are aligned by design.

The fee structure is designed to align Aurian's interests directly with investor outcomes. Performance fees are earned only on net new profits via a strict high-watermark, not on recovered losses. Risk governance and drawdown controls remain active at all times and cannot be overridden by commercial considerations.

Your funds remain entirely with the regulated broker, unaffected and immediately available for withdrawal. The systematic infrastructure does not depend on Aurian's continued operation. Positions, stops and risk controls remain intact at broker level regardless of what happens on Aurian's side.

The main risk categories are extreme market dislocation, infrastructure disruption, regulatory change and liquidity stress. Each is addressed through portfolio diversification, stress testing, legal structuring, operational redundancy and a business continuity framework that does not depend on any single individual or discretionary decision.

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