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James, an Australian, has worked in financial markets for 30 years, the last 22 of which have been in London.

While he will always take a keen interest in the plumbing of the financial system, ranging from monetary policy, to Brexit, to COVID, to strategic competition between western capitals and the CCP, to inflation, to ESG, to the climate transition and a myriad of other topics, it’s James’s thoughtful, proportionate interpretation of global events that his long-standing, loyal clients appreciate the most.

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Client base today

James’s global client base is today quite multidimensional. Here are just a few of his long-standing client types:

• the world’s largest family offices, endowments and foundations

• insurance and pension funds

• mutual funds

• long-only investors

• the world’s largest credit investors

• the world’s largest fixed income investors

• sovereign wealth funds

• HNWI

• special situations investors

• distressed debt investors

• and hedge funds of every description

In addition, he continues to be sought out and to advise Western policy makers, particularly when it comes to unfinished financial regulatory reform.

If James had a motto…It would be “I want to be less wrong.”In a world that is endlessly shouting at itself, James prefers to spend as much time as possible reading books and other material in the public domain that he believes important to his clients’ success, but which his clients may not have time to read. James’s bi-annual booklists are much admired by his clients, their colleagues, and their families: across the first 13 years of his business, James has dispatched over two thousand seven hundred books to clients, and there’s plenty more to come.

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