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Following 23 years with JPMorgan, Simon Lack founded SL Advisors, LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor, in 2009. Much of Simon Lack’s career with JPMorgan was spent in North American Fixed Income Derivatives and Forward FX trading, a business that he ran successfully through several bank mergers ultimately overseeing 50 professionals and $300 million in annual revenues. Simon Lack sat on JPMorgan’s investment committee allocating over $1 billion to hedge fund managers and founded the JPMorgan Incubator Funds, two private equity vehicles that take economic stakes in emerging hedge fund managers. Simon Lack’s deep experience in financial markets, managing complex trading businesses and overseeing hedge funds provide him with a unique perspective from which to manage investments and advise clients. Simon serves on the Board of Trustees of Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison, NJ where he chairs the Investment Committee, and also chairs the Memorial Endowment Trust Investment Committee of St. Paul's Church in Westfield, NJ.

Here’s Why Linn Energy LLC (LINE) Was the Wrong Kind of MLP

Last week, Linn Energy LLC (NASDAQ:LINE) filed for bankruptcy. Over the past year or so we’ve come across quite a few people whose exposure …

Simon Lack Simon Lack — May 16, 2016, 5:31 PM EDT

Targa Resources Corp (TRGP) Needs an Activist

Writing a blog from the vantage point of your own firm is fantastically liberating compared with analyzing markets at a well-known behemoth, where …

Simon Lack Simon Lack — November 29, 2015, 4:20 PM EDT

Energy Transfer Equity LP (ETE)’s Kelcy Warren Thinks Like a Hedge Fund Manager

Last Monday, June 22nd, Energy Transfer Equity LP (NYSE:ETE) went public with their rejected merger proposal to Williams Companies Inc (NYSE:WMB) in an …

Simon Lack Simon Lack — June 29, 2015, 4:51 AM EDT

Cheniere Energy, Inc. Exports Will Soon Commence

A question I’m often asked is how the business prospects of many MLPs will respond permanently to lower prices for oil and gas, …

Simon Lack Simon Lack — June 22, 2015, 5:13 AM EDT

Business Seems to be Going Well for These MLPs: ONEOK, Inc. (OKE) & Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (EPD)

Several Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) announced their quarterly earnings last week. The overall picture continues to be one of businesses performing well with …

Simon Lack Simon Lack — May 12, 2015, 6:06 AM EDT

Energy Insights from Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (EPD)

We noticed several interesting slides from an investor presentation by Enterprise Products Partners L.P.

Simon Lack Simon Lack — May 4, 2015, 6:35 AM EDT

The U.S.’s Self-Imposed Oil Embargo

In an interview on CNBC last week, Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm elegantly exposed the increasingly anachronistic ban on crude oil exports from …

Simon Lack Simon Lack — April 27, 2015, 6:35 AM EDT

The Outlook for Energy

Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) publishes a long term energy outlook (The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040) which they update annually. It’s …

Simon Lack Simon Lack — April 7, 2015, 9:58 AM EDT

Kinder Morgan Finds Value in a New Pipeline Network

Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) have been falling along with the rest of the Energy sector since oil began its plunge last Summer. Following its …

Simon Lack Simon Lack — January 25, 2015, 10:50 AM EDT