What We Do
We take investment risks efficiently.
We design investment solutions that aim to give our clients the highest possible return for each unit of portfolio risk.
We take investment risks efficiently.
We design investment solutions that aim to give our clients the highest possible return for each unit of portfolio risk.
High Net Worth Investment Management
Our team’s industry experience allows us to customize our investment approach in line with each client’s needs, balancing risk tolerance, capital preservation and liquidity requirements.
We do this by:
- Targeting an agreed risk objective.
- Buying cheap assets with the right risk/return profile.
- Understanding the value of uncorrelated return streams.
- Favoring truly uncorrelated assets.
- Allowing price momentum to guide us in our investment decisions.
- Going to cash in times of market stress.
Institutional Investment Management
We are able to provide a full range of financial and investment services to institutional investors, including corporations, endowments, profit-sharing plans and foundations. Our services include consultations with both boards of directors and company management teams in order to develop, design and implement the following:
- Investment policies
- Portfolio design across all asset classes
- Cash-flow planning
- Portfolio monitoring
- Comprehensive portfolio reporting
- 401K plan management
Who We Are
Peter Van Dessel
Chief Investment Officer and Founding Member
Peter Van Dessel is an investment management professional and fund manager with over 30 years of experience in fund management, alternative investments, debt and capital markets, investment banking and pension fund consulting.
He served as Chairman of the Bosera China Fund Limite
Peter Van Dessel
Chief Investment Officer and Founding Member
Peter Van Dessel is an investment management professional and fund manager with over 30 years of experience in fund management, alternative investments, debt and capital markets, investment banking and pension fund consulting.
He served as Chairman of the Bosera China Fund Limited and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Electricity Supply Board of Ireland’s Pension Fund, one of Ireland’s largest pension plans.
Before that, Peter was Head of Trading at BNP Paribas's Dublin office, Chief Executive of WestLB Covered Bond Bank, and Chief Operating Officer of Abbey Capital Limited, a large fund of managed futures funds based out of Dublin and New York.
Grace Y. Toh
Founding Member and Managing Director
Grace Y. Toh is a financial services professional with over 30 years of experience in private banking and wealth management, concentrating on building and managing long-term relationships with high net worth and institutional clients. Previously, she was a Senior Vice President at HSBC Priv
Grace Y. Toh
Founding Member and Managing Director
Grace Y. Toh is a financial services professional with over 30 years of experience in private banking and wealth management, concentrating on building and managing long-term relationships with high net worth and institutional clients. Previously, she was a Senior Vice President at HSBC Private Bank and The Private Bank at Bank of America (now US Trust).
She is a graduate of Wellesley College with a B.A. in Economics and Chinese Studies. She studied Management Information Systems and Accounting at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and earned her MBA in Finance from the Jones School of Management at Rice University. She has served on a number of not-for-profit boards and was a member of Wellesley College’s Board of Trustees.
Joe Connolly
Managing Director
Joe Connolly is the Chief Market Officer of Abbington Investment Group LLC. Joe brings with him over 35 years of experience in financial services, working exclusively in sales, business development and relationship management roles.
Born and educated in Ireland, Joe held a number of senior positions with the
Joe Connolly
Managing Director
Joe Connolly is the Chief Market Officer of Abbington Investment Group LLC. Joe brings with him over 35 years of experience in financial services, working exclusively in sales, business development and relationship management roles.
Born and educated in Ireland, Joe held a number of senior positions with the Bank of Ireland in Dublin before relocating to the U.S. in 2003 as Head of U.S. Sales. For the past 15 years, Joe was directly involved in the Bank’s significant growth in the U.S., serving on the U.S. senior management team and was a member of the Ireland-U.S. Council. In this role, he was twice nominated on the Wall Street’s Top 50 Irish Americans
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