Kevin Doran: The DFM market is ripe for a bit of disruption

Aiming to provide active management at passive prices

Anna Fedorova
clock • 8 min read

Anna Fedorova goes behind the scenes of Kevin Doran's new venture - Alphabet Investment Partners

After leaving his role at Brown Shipley parent KBL European Private Bankers last year, Kevin Doran took an extended break from the investment industry to sail around the west coast of Italy, but in the back of his mind he was already thinking about what the asset management business of the future would look like.   When he came back to London, he met with an old acquaintance and CEO of Host Capital, Chris Finch, and over a lunch together the idea of Alphabet Investment Partners was born. Having spent more than 17 years at Brown Shipley and then briefly its parent company, Doran was re...

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