Simon Hopkins,
Chief Executive Officer
The Fortune Group
Mr. Simon Hopkins has over 20 years experience in the European investment business. He started his investment banking career with SG Warburg & Co in 1986, joining UBS in 1988 as a European equity specialist. From 1990 to 1996 he spent over six years as a French equity market specialist in Paris, first with HSBC James Capel, then Nomura France, where as director of French equities he built a highly-rated equity sales and research business. In 1996, Mr. Hopkins established Fortune, a diversified hedge fund management and advisory firm, and its research affiliate Global Fund Analysis. In 2006, Close Brothers Group plc, a leading UK merchant bank, acquired a controlling interest in the firm. Today, Fortune manages the Fortune family of funds, and numerous customised mandates, overseeing US$7.5 billion in total for a wide range of institutional clients including insurance companies, private banks, family offices and endowments. The firm has also seeded over 20 single strategy funds over the last decade through its unique emerging manager program. He brings to the Fortune team a deep understanding of global investors and the driving forces of fund investing. Mr. Hopkins is a regular commentator on fund industry topics in the financial media and has addressed numerous conferences, the OECD and the London School of Economics on hedge fund investing. He graduated with honours from the University of Bristol’s Faculty of Law in 1986.
