According to the Financial Times, Aspect uses "technology and complex mathematical models to power computers that trade the world's markets around the clock".

Two of Aspect's founders, Michael Adam and Martin Lueck, were co-founders[8] of Adam, Harding & Lueck (AHL, now a part of the Man Group Plc[9]), one of the earliest managed futures firms in Europe, with Anthony Todd and Eugene Lambert also working at AHL prior to founding Aspect.

The programme, which runs the majority of Aspect's assets under management, uses a medium-term trend following strategy which is designed to systematically and quantitatively identify and exploit trends in a broad range of highly liquid futures and foreign exchange markets to generate diversifying returns for investors.

[13] The Aspect Diversified Programme's investment philosophy is based on the premise that trends are a persistent feature of markets.

In Hong Kong, Aspect Capital Asia Limited has been licensed and regulated by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) since June 2008.