Little Harbor Advisors

Little Harbor Advisors

Jeff Landes founded Little Harbor Advisors in 2011 as a tactical investment manager focused on exchange-traded products. The firm operates from Marblehead, Massachusetts and registered with the SEC in 2012. Its early strategy centered on launching actively managed ETFs, including a managed-futures fund that sought to generate returns uncorrelated to equity and bond markets. Little Harbor runs concentrated, rules-based portfolios that rotate across asset classes based on volatility signals and trend-following models. The firm's documented activity shows a shift from pure trend-following to a broader macro posture that can allocate to equity, fixed-income, and commodity-linked instruments. In 2020, its flagship ETF pivoted heavily into fallen-angel corporate debt, a move that signaled the strategy's capacity to migrate across asset classes when quantitative models indicate dislocations. The vehicle liquidated in 2021, and by 2023 the firm had wound down its registered fund complex. The firm maintained a lean structure throughout its active period. SEC filings identify Landes as portfolio manager and David Sloane as chief compliance officer. No institutional sales team or regional offices were established. Little Harbor did not develop adjacent vehicles, philanthropic structures, or co-investment clubs. Little Harbor's genuine structural difference was its ETF-embedded managed-futures architecture, which offered daily-liquidity trend-following inside a 1940 Act wrapper — a format that few commodity trading advisors have adopted. That structure has now been retired, leaving the firm as a going concern but without publicly listed active products.