Who We Are

​Blue Tractor Group, LLC develops proprietary solutions that facilitate novel exchange-traded fund products. 

Founded in 2015, Blue Tractor is based in New York City.  Blue Tractor's novel Shielded Alpha℠ ETF structure (patent pending) permits active fund management within an ETF wrapper, while fully shielding a portfolio manager's proprietary alpha strategy. 

​The Blue Tractor team are seasoned finance professionals, with backgrounds in quantitative finance, investment banking and enterprise-scale software and project management.

Blue Tractor's '40 Act counsel is Michael W. Mundt, Partner in the Washington D.C. office of Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP.

​​For media inquiries please contact Chris Sullivan at MacMillan Communications.

The Shielded Alpha℠ ETF wrapper structure remains subject to exemptive relief by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. 

​Blue Tractor filed its initial application with the Commission on March 14, 2016 and subsequently has filed nine amended and restated applications, with the most recent dated August 2, 2019.

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Curious About Our Name?

Terry Norman conceived the core concepts underpinning the novel algorithm that facilitates the Shielded Alpha℠ ETF wrapper while riding his blue tractor cutting hay on his farm outside of London, England.