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Marina Lewin By Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London

From her position as head of global sales with BNY Mellon’s Alternative Investment Services, Marina Lewin gets a pretty good picture of what is happening in the alternative space around the world. And the good news is that what she hears shows a return to growth. "I hear that institutions are expanding their allocations to alternatives" she says. "Whatever form that takes and whatever regulatory environment, the institutional base still likes and needs the investing style that alternatives offer."

Lewin is charged with overseeing new business development teams globally across all BNY Mellon’s AIS business areas – hedge funds, private equity, and fund of funds administration and custody. "Our core services are administration and prime custody" she explains, "but we bring the whole bank, our whole financial institution which is one of only a few triple A rated institutions in the world."

BNY Mellon offers some prime custody services but avoids the prime brokers’ key service of margining. "We don’t offer that kind of leverage provision" she says.

Lewin is a great believer in equilibrium and balance. "I believe that over time everything finds equilibrium." She believes that the hedge fund industry was largely unregulated for so long that it was inevitable that the regulatory authorities would clamp down more heavily at the first sign of trouble, let alone some cases of blatant abuse and the credit collapse of 2008. ......................

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