I am a professional investor and family man who’s been smart enough (or lucky enough – I’ve certainly had luck) to turn pennies into pounds during the course of my professional life.

Ever since buying my proverbial ticket out of South Africa at the age of 18 – through speculating on the collapse of the South African rand – I’ve been fascinated by investments which provide an asymmetric payoff.

After spending my early years at investment banks in London and NYC, I set out to pursue asymmetric returns with my own capital.

Since leaving the corporate world 15 years ago, I’ve both made and lost many millions. I’ve built businesses, speculated in countries and markets most have never even heard off, and honed my skills producing returns allowing me to live a life less ordinary. I believe however that nothing compares to what lies before us both in terms of opportunity as well as risk to our capital. It is in a word “extraordinary”.