Emerging Manager Exchange: Recent Episodes

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Launching, operating, growing, and ALWAYS delivering on expectations. By themselves or with a couple of trusted friends. Guaranteed blood, sweat and tears. Why do they do it?

Host Marc Angelos meets industry veterans and rising stars as he brings to life stories and insight from the emerging manager universe.

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Marc welcomes Fizza Khan, Founder and CEO of Silver Regulatory Associates LLC. Together, they discuss the regulatory pain points of the FTX collapse and offer tips to help crypto managers better understand what they need to focus on to protect their clients, investments and themselves against regulatory scrutiny.

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Marc welcomes Rebecca Xuereb of BoV Fund Services, a representative of FinanceMalta. Together, they explore the advantages of Malta as a financial jurisdiction and its especial benefits for Emerging Managers.  

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Marc welcomes Steven Hennessy Enfusion and David Bradley of Hawk Ridge Capital Management.

Together they explore strategies for emerging managers when they're AUM outgrows their technology set. Balancing costs and scalability they look to identify best practice.

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Marc welcomes Dorothée Borca Dumortier of IG Bank and Nadine Terman of Solstein Capital.

Together they explore the steps required to achieve gender balance in the emerging manager and wider investment space and consider the link between financial returns and gender diversity. 

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Marc welcomes Max Hayden of IG Prime and Ryan Swehla of Graceada Partners. 

Together they explore the most recent developments in ESG within the investment industry and explore the challenges and opportunities that emerging managers face when integrating ESG factors. 

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Marc welcomes Chris Beauchamp of IG Prime, Monik Pham of Soho Ventures and Sarah Barber of Jenson Funding

Together they explore the key factors driving patriotic investing and share their personal experiences investing in UK companies.

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Marc welcomes Max Hayden of IG Prime, Tillmann Sachs of J8 Capital and Kaspar

Hartmann of KKA Partners. They consider what the most recent data around

post-Brexit trade flows means for emerging managers, how they operate and

the asset classes they invest in.

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Marc welcomes Peter Habermacher of Aaro Capital and  Alexandre Carteau of TS Imagine to explore the rapidly changing landscape of Crypto Investments and the challenges emerging managers face in securing allocations in the space.

  • What is the current appetite for crypto funds amongst different types of investors?
  • What are investors looking for when selecting a crypto manager?
  • What are the key operational challenges crypto managers face?
  • What are the tools at their disposal that can help them drive growth?

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Marc welcomes Chris Hollands of TradingScreen, Cynthia Tusan of Strategic Global Advisors and Alena Kykalova of Tiara Capital to explore how quant managers approach growth and their relationship with service providers

  • How can quant managers differentiate themselves and raise capital?
  • Managing growth and outsourcing (trading & operations)
  • The key challenges and changes to come
  • Expectations VS reality when it comes to starting a fund.

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Marc welcomes Chris Hollands of TradingScreen and Mark de Klerk from Investcorp-Tages to explore the key factors that help emerging managers make that coveted jump in size.

  • What are allocators looking for when making the kind of allocations that will take managers to the next level?
  • How should managers adapt their structure and service providers during high growth periods?
  • What impact does vendor consolidation have for managers who are trying to grow whilst maintain a sustainable cost base?