Shilpi Chowdhary Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: A Singapore-based, ex-Credit Suisse manager talks about his new global multi-strategy hedge fund.
Lighthouse Canton Pte Ltd was founded by Rajesh Sundaresan, CIO, and Shilpi Chowdhary, CEO. Sundaresan previously worked at Catalytic, Moon Capital, Citigroup, Credit Suisse and Barclays, and Chowdhary was at Credit Suisse and Citigroup.
When working at Credit Suisse, which he did for eight years, Chowdhary was managing one of the largest books out of Asia. There, he saw a gap in the market where a lot of HNWIs and family offices were looking to get institutional access, but could not make the progression. He decided to capture the space between very large and very small institutions.
So he set up a regulated entity in Singapore with Sundaresan, and many of their clients joined them.
Lighthouse Canton, currently staffed with 9 people, has two business verticals, he tells Opalesque. One is the wealth advisory business, and the second one is the asset management business.
"On the asset management business, we started off because we felt that there was a lot of talent available in the market, and hence the strategy to i...................... To view our full article Click here
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