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Aleksandr “Shurick” Agapitov: Creating a new frontier for investors and entrepreneurs

March 13, 2023

In an exclusive interview with Campden FB, the man responsible for building a $3 billion video game payments powerhouse with his company Xsolla discusses the challenges and opportunities of the internet’s next great step forward.

Since building a $3 billion video game payments powerhouse with his company Xsolla, Aleksandr “Shurick” Agapitov is now responsible for giving the developer community the tools they need to compete and succeed in the hyper-competitive video game arena.

Why are family offices in a cautious climate making the move to ‘risky’ digital assets?

November 17, 2022

While the unsettling multiple whammy of COVID-19 pandemic, a global inflation spike, rising interest rates, geopolitical perils and potential looming recession have driven a reduction in investment risk towards a more conservative and balanced strategy, Family Offices have nevertheless developed a taste for tech, according to Campden Wealth and RBC's The North America Family Office Report 2022.

While the unsettling multiple whammy of COVID-19 pandemic, a global inflation spike, rising interest rates, geopolitical perils and potential looming recession have driven a reduction in investment risk towards a more conservative and balanced strategy, North American Family Offices have nevertheless developed a taste for tech.

The case for including digital assets in your investment portfolio

March 4, 2022

Digital assets represent an attractive investment opportunity to diversify a family office investment portfolio says GDA Group chief investment officer George Spentzos.

Digital assets represent an attractive investment opportunity to diversify a family office investment portfolio. This sector represents about $3 trillion of global assets and is poised for further growth. It includes a broad array of investment types: Cryptocurrencies (e.g., Bitcoin and Ethereum), DeFi platforms, decentralized applications, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

What can the Bitfinex hack teach us about cyptocurrency fraud protection?

February 9, 2022

The US department of justice has arrested startup founder Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife Heather Morgan for attempting to launder $4.5 billion in bitcoin. What does the unprecedented hack mean for the future safety of cryptocurrency and how can such fraud be avoided in the future?

Asia-Pacific family offices poised to lead world in cryptocurrency investments

December 11, 2021

Family offices in Asia-Pacific are fostering a newly energised enthusiasm for investments in the $1.9 trillion cryptocurrency market, ahead of European and North American counterparts, buoyed by pandemic-defying increases in wealth over the past 12 months.

The DeFi Revolution: The opportunities and risks for family offices

May 18, 2021

We have reached the point where many family offices are open to some form of crypto-assets investment, and a number have allocated serious resources to crypto-assets. In some cases, this is driven by the lure of returns, in other cases by next generation family members advocating crypto investment.

I wrote an article for CampdenFB in November 2017, which included the following statement:

“Only a courageous chief investment officer would stand before a family committee meeting to advocate a crypto investment... But perceptions are changing.”

Jonthan Ruffer’s investment review of growth and gains

January 21, 2021

Somewhere in a cupboard, I have a set of eight contract notes dated 8 January 1975, when I invested—upwards of £100 per holding!—in a range of UK equities. Reader, I called the bottom of the market—a dangerous thing for a young man to do.

Would a stock, by any other name, rise just as high?

September 30, 2020

Traditional finance theory tells us that markets are rational. Investors incorporate all public and private information when making their investment decisions. This school of thought is grappling with the field of behavioural finance, which asserts that human psychology and biases also act in an irrational way to influence these same investment decisions.

Cryptoassets in a portfolio theory context

September 29, 2020

The past decade has been one of the most successful investment decades in history: US stocks rose by an average of 248%, the US real estate market by 200%, and gold as a “safe haven” climbed by 40%. The loose monetary policy as a result of the financial crisis has certainly contributed a great deal to this trend, as alternatives such as saving accounts or life insurance are simply no longer an option in times of low interest rates and increased monetary supply.

Monetary policy and a very successful investment decade

Dr. Satoshi or: How I Learned to Double (Risk-Adjusted) ROI and Love the Bitcoin

August 19, 2020

A mere 1% allocation to crypto assets over the past few years could have nearly doubled your investment portfolio’s overall, risk-adjusted return. You’ll have to forgive me, but I feel this is so important that I would like to repeat myself so everyone may comprehend the gravity of such a statement… Iconic Holding