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ABOUT US

Signet combines over 30 years' expertise in regulated global asset management and wealth advisory services with a profound understanding of the investment processes required to successfully navigate the financial markets.

THE COMPANY

Signet is an asset manager and wealth advisor with broad and comprehensive expertise serving individual, family office and institutional clients globally. We create value for our clients by pursuing outperformance through market cycles and weigh risk versus reward to ensure they’re on the right side of change.

Our team

We are an international and experienced team of specialist advisors, analysts and fund managers with a reputation for excellence and original thought. Each of us joined Signet because we desired a more entrepreneurial and independent environment in which to advise our clients and deliver our hard-earned skills.

Experience

We offer an unrivalled investment platform based on decades of experience in portfolio and fund management, risk management, fund strategies in both developed and emerging markets, and the art of wealth management. We strive to build trusted partnerships with our clients to maximise value creation and achieve targeted results.

Global Reach

We have formed partnerships with leading providers of financial services, international banks, fund administrators, auditors and legal advisors.

GROUP OVERVIEW

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Innovative, entrepreneurial and meritocratic culture where employees value the autonomy and difference in the market.

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Committed to aligning our incentives with those of our clients, i.e. putting our money where our mouth is.

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Manages and advises on assets in excess of $1bn through investment fund strategies and individual, tailored managed accounts.

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Transparent sector preferences, currently focused on Information Technology, Health Care, Consumer-Retail, Sports & Entertainment.

Our Ethos

Forward thinking

Sometimes the most attractive opportunities hide in plain sight. Right now, we have identified a range of life-changing, long-run secular themes which we consider hold significant potential for investors.

A sense of purpose

We are not a traditional investment house. Where others take a broad approach, we play to our strengths and focus on in-depth due diligence. And rather than swagger, we prefer to underpromise and overdeliver.

Embrace change

While some investment houses struggle with a changing world, Signet relishes the ‘new order’ brought about by global disruption and the opportunities it brings.

Collaborative

We welcome insights from employees and clients alike, seizing every opportunity to improve our processes, philosophy and strategies.

Staying focused

We filter out market noise, short-lived trends, uninformed opinion and those with an axe to grind. All investment decisions are arrived at by design.

What we stand for

We will never try to be all things to all men. We know our strengths and how to build on them.

Managing the downside

To us, this is equally as important as generating good performance. Drawdowns are not just about potential capital loss, but a loss of opportunity.

Strong foundations

Before making a commitment, we turn over many stones. As long term, high conviction investors — who expect the unexpected — very little tests our patience or resolve.

OUR TEAM

Andrew Butler-Cassar

What I like about working for Signet?

Signet provides a professional playground for talented people to express themselves in a safe and rewarding environment.

Andrew Butler-Cassar

Senior Partner

Andrew began with Lloyds Private Banking in 1994 as a portfolio manager and client advisor in its UHNW team. In 2002, he moved to the private client division of Williams de Broe, where he oversaw funds grow from £250m to £8b. He was appointed Head of the Investec Private Office in 2014. Andrew joined Brown Shipley Private Bank in 2019, where he created and oversaw the Private Banking Team. Most recently, Andrew worked as Director at The Hottinger Group, where he advised clients and families.

Nikos Anastasiades

What I like about working for Signet?

I love the strong sense of ethical responsibility my role requires, allowing me to contribute to fair and ethical relationships between Signet and its clients and counterparts.

Nikos Anastasiades

Head of Compliance

Nikos Anastasiades has almost 20 years of experience in regulatory compliance function units within the financial markets. He has held previous roles at Lamda Development SA, Société Générale Bank & Trust as well as Argus Stockbrokers Ltd. Nikos holds a BSc in
Economics, a BSc in Business Economics and an MA in International Business, as well as AML Certificate, an Advanced Certificate and a Certificate A1 of the Central Bank of Greece and HCMC, and an Equities Trader Certificate (ATHEX).

Anatoly Fedorov

What I like about working for Signet?

Signet’s culture of entrepreneurship fosters ownership of products and workstreams while promoting the business idea 
generation process.

Anatoly Fedorov

Portfolio Manager Global Leaders

Anatoly Fedorov is a Portfolio Manager and the Head of Equities of Signet Group. Anatoly manages Signet’s global leaders portfolio and has experience working with Long-short Equity and Merger Arbitrage strategies. Prior to joining the Investment Manager in February 2018, he worked as a Vice President at J.P. Morgan in EMEA Diversified Industrials Practice. Here he conducted financial and valuation analysis, execution, project management and due diligence on large scale M&A transactions (for example from 2016: Philips Lighting IPO and SGD Pharma sell-side). Prior to his employment at J.P. Morgan, Anatoly was an equity research analyst at Genesis Investment Management. During his time there, he executed financial analysis, valuation and communication with corporate management for emerging markets.

Natalia Kovalevskaya

What I like about working for Signet?

I love investing in targeted areas of significant innovation in healthcare and in companies that bring novel therapies to the patients that need them.

Natalia Kovalevskaya

Portfolio Manager

Natalia joined Signet in 2020 as Investment Director taking part in managing and developing growing portfolio of healthcare investments in both private and public companies. She has extensive experience in deal sourcing, due diligence, valuation, and execution of life sciences investment opportunities as well as in managing and developing portfolios of biotechnology companies at various stages of development.

Prior to Signet, from 2017 Natalia focused on early-stage private life sciences companies in Europe working within entrepreneurial biotech ecosystem in Europe with academic start-ups and technology transfer offices and contributing to early-stage investment rounds. She also founded and actively fund raised for a seed fund dedicated to building early-stage life sciences ventures.

Prior to healthcare investing, Natalia was a Director at UBS Investment Bank from 2015 where she led structured financing transactions for institutional investors. Her expertise spans various financial products and asset classes with focus on global emerging markets. Her clients include extensive network of European institutional investors such as pension funds, hedge funds and real money asset managers. Natalia started her career in investment banking at Citi in London in 2009 on analyst graduate program and worked in Capital Markets Origination and Global Markets divisions moving on to VTB Capital in 2012.

Natalia holds a BSc in Biochemistry from Imperial College London, MSc Management with a focus on pharmaceutical industry from London School of Economics, and an MEng in Food Technology Engineering from Moscow State University of Applied Biotechnology.

Natalia is fluent in English, Russian, Italian, French and speaks conversational German.

Tushar Jian

What I like about working for Signet?

Signet provides a strong and stable platform with an attractive culture of open communication, in-depth analysis/debates, integrity and respect as well as recognition of individual ideas which enables teams to deliver consistent long- term outperformance.

Tushar Jian

Senior Analyst Software

Tushar Jian has 11 years of experience as an equity research analyst with a strong knowledge of analysing financial statements, corporate strategy and industry trends to identify medium- to long-term investment opportunities. He has a strong analytical and quantitative background (MBA from INSEAD, Computer Science from NUS, CFA) which is complemented with around 10 years of equity research experience at Goldman Sachs and the Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Robert Marquardt

What I like about working for Signet?

Being at work is always an enjoyable intellectual exercise. The quality of investment management skills and research is very high and the conversation is always stimulating and thought-provoking.

Robert Marquardt

Chairman

Robert Marquardt was the Founder of the Signet Group of Companies in the early 1990s and is today Chairman of Signet Wealth Management. Robert, as hedge fund CIO, has managed and advised on investment strategy and hedge fund / alternative investment selection globally since 1994. Through Signet’s offices in Switzerland, London and Hong Kong the group managed and advised on hedge fund selection with an asset level in excess of $3.5 billion at the peak. Prior to founding Signet, Robert was the Managing Director of Chase Private Banking in Luxembourg and a Credit Officer of Chase Manhattan Bank in the Middle East during a 12-year career at the Chase. Robert has deep knowledge of the opportunities and risks in different global economic and market environments across fixed income, equity, commodity and currency strategies through different economic cycles and holding structures.

Daria Vodyasova

What I like about working for Signet?

Working at Signet is definitely not boring. We constantly look to improve our products and services and being a small part of this is incredibly rewarding.

Daria Vodyasova

Head of Investor Relations & Client Services

Daria holds Honours Degrees in Economics and Sociology as well as an M.A. Degree in the Psychology of Personnel Management from the State Education Institution of Higher Professional Education. Today, she heads up Signet’s investor relations and client services, supporting our customers across our full product range.

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