Jeff Holland London

Can machine learning-based technology overcome the many human behavioural biases to improve investment portfolio returns? Hedge funds and other asset management companies today deploy varying degrees of use of technology. At some firms things still feel fairly conventional. Portfolio managers make investment decisions, manually enter trades at the desk, where dealers will size up the incoming order and call up a reliable bank counterparty to get it done on optimum terms. Within more technologically advanced firms, there may be none of this dialogue, as almost everything, from portfolio management to order entry and execution, is done electronically. The humans who remain are merely guardians of the machines, stepping in when markets get dicey or trades need rerouting. Though these machines are most likely not learning, with the goal of optimising trading and improving returns. They are simply automating trading. Automated trading was just the beginning This is a gradual shif...

I have recently joined the Board of Trustees of a wonderful charity based in London called the International Refugee Trust . IRT has done fantastic work for the past 30 years, and is working currently with projects in South Sudan, Uganda, Lebanon, and Tanzania. Where most refugee relief projects focus on short-term suffering, the IRT works to help those displaced by conflict get back on their feet to move forward in life. I would encourage you to check them out.

I was honoured to have been named by Alternative Investment News (a publication of Institutional Investor) in 2010 as a Rising Star of Hedge Funds . There was a lovely black tie awards ceremony at Cipriani's in New York City (see photo of award recipients here ).

While with London based Liongate Capital, named by Institutional Investor as a top 40 Under 40 in hedge funds. Read article here .

The article below was seen in the Baylor Business Review, a quarterly publication of Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business. I attend Baylor for 3 1/2 year from 1993-1996 where I graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration with a focus on finance and accounting. In this article, I was interviewed to discuss the rising acceptance of hedge funds. Finance to the Rescue Problem: Realizing Superior Returns With Palatable Risk  for the Ultra-Wealthy and Institutional Investors Solution: Liongate Capital Management ’s Multi-Strategy Fund of Hedge Funds Innovator: Jeff Holland , Fund Founder, (Baylor University, 1996), summa cum laude finance and accounting graduate, C.P.A., Master’s studies in finance at the London Business School. Traditionally, hedge funds have served the unique investment needs of high net worth, individuals, typically with savings of $1 million or more. The first one was started back on the heels of the 1929 stock market...

Liongate Capital Management  was awarded Best Diversified Fund of Hedge Funds manager by Hedgeweek in 2012. I gave an interview to Hedgeweek which formed the basis of this profile on the firm.  Article published by Hedgeweek

Liongate Capital Management  was featured by Investments and Pensions Europe (IPE) at the time of its sale to the Principal Financial Group. IPE is the primary publication in Europe for pension fund managers and administrators, and the author Martin Steward is a chap that I have collaborated with on several stories. Among other things, Martin and I discuss the growth of the retail hedge fund sector as the basis for the sale to Principal. Article published by Investments and Pensions Europe

A group in in the UK started a wiki site featuring leading in the LGBT community. I ran across my bio at the  LGBT Archive .

I was honoured to have been listed in the 2013  World Pride Power List .

Jeff Holland is a London based financial professional and entrepreneur with a focus on the technology and investment management sectors. Mr. Holland is currently a Senior Advisor to Afiniti , a global technology firm focussed on artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics. Mr. Holland was a founding member of Liongate Capital Management , an investment management firm with $7 billion under management and advisory at the time of the sale of the firm to Principal Global Investors in 2013. He has been named by Insitutional Investor as a " Rising Star of Hedge Funds " and by Financial News among the top " 40 Under 40 in Hedge Funds ". Mr. Holland previously worked with Deutsche Bank as Vice President within Investment Banking. Mr. Holland is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the US. He studied at Baylor University in the US where he graduated summa cum laude. Mr. Holland holds a Masters in Finance from London Business School .

After the financial crisis, I gave a recorded video interview in the offices of the Financial Times in London. This was after the publication in the newspaper's FTfm supplement on fund management of an article which said that many hedge fund investors questioned why the performance of funds of hedge fund was lower than that of many hedge fund indices. I mentioned academic research which has shown that many of these hedge fund indices are biases, flaws from how they are constructed, which inflate their performance. Here is the full  interview .