Benros Capital, a hedge fund manager launched last year by two former Goldman Sachs traders, beat it peers during its first seven months of trading but was still left nursing a small performance loss.

Daniele Benatoff and Ariel Roskis launched Benros Capital last summer. The pair had worked together at Goldman Sachs Principal Strategies, the bank's largest proprietary trading division, but left when the Wall Street giant began winding it down at the end of 2010 to comply with the Volcker Rule in the US.