Writing · Published 2022
A book on credit risk, drawn from fifteen years at UBS, HSBC, Credit Suisse, Santander and Nordea.
Fifteen years of underwriting other people’s balance sheets leaves you with a small number of ideas that keep proving useful, and a large number that do not survive contact with a real portfolio. The book is an attempt to write down the first set.
Full title: Credit Risk: The Easy Path. From Rookie to Expert. — 295 pages, independently published in August 2022, in English.
Lima to Rio overland — Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil. Seven weeks, seventeen legs, every bed and every flight booked.
A buy-side investment platform for Portuguese property that never represents sellers. Parish-level valuation, condition scoring from photographs, and a risk grade on every listing.