Kingsley Jones

Investor, Trader & Entrepreneur

Profile

Founder and CIO of Jevons Global Pty Ltd, a Sydney based boutique investment firm.
Writer, conference speaker, media presenter and columnist on global investment themes.

Competencies

Speaker

Experienced in Radio & TV, Speaker, Conference Talks, Panels and Moderation.

Writer

Research report writing, technical communication, columns and copy writing.

Global Funds

Portfolio management, strategy research, and fund product development.

Systems Trading

Systematic trading systems and associated software systems development.

Statistical Research

Analysis of large data sets for classification, modelling and forecasting purposes.

Mathematical Models

Nonlinear dynamics, problem analysis and solution methods.

Business Interests

  • Investment Strategy Incubation
  • Fund Marketing Strategies
  • Investment Publishing
  • Investor Education Solutions
  • Web-Based Investor Services
  • Bespoke Data Sets
  • Similarity Search Technologies
  • High-Performance Computing
  • Automated Trading Systems

Experience

Macquarie Group

International Portfolio Manager

2008-2011

Managed the #1 ranked Macquarie Global Thematic Fund and led team of three in running $80M USD of global equity portfolios for clients in Australia, Taiwan and Japan.

AllianceBernstein LP

Global Head of Quantitative Trading Research

2007-2008

Led quantitative trading research for AllianceBernstein LP desks which traded over $400B USD of diverse equity portfolios on the New York, London, Hong Kong and Sydney trading desks.

AllianceBernstein LP

Quantitative Analyst with Bernstein Australian Value Team

2003-2007

Founding member of Bernstein Australian Value business which managed $5B AUD in a team of four. The business grew from $25M AUD in three years on the strength of excellent performance.

Credit Suisse First Boston

Quantitative Analyst and Quantitative Research Head for Australia

2000-2002

Developed and marketed the Australian Quantitative Research product for Credit Suisse First Boston in Sydney, Australia. Led internal research team on market-microstructure analysis of order book data.

County Investment Management

Quantitative Analyst

1997-2000

Researched and developed investment systems and models including County Investment Management yield curve and risk models. New product research and development.

Education

University of Bristol, United Kingdom (1990)

Doctorate in Theoretical Physics, — Research on Quantum Inference

Australian National University, Australia (1984)

Bachelor of Science (Hons), — Majored in Physics and Applied Mathematics


Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)


Completed Level II of Chartered Market Technician (CMT)


Member of IEEE, Signal Processing and Robotics Societies

Blog

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