Company Profile
Hinde Capital is based in London and was established to launch its first fund specialising in the precious metals sector, Hinde Gold Fund.
Hinde Gold Fund was incorporated as a professional fund in the British Virgin Islands on September 28th 2007 and began managing funds on October 19th 2007.
Hinde Gold Fund's primary aim is to provide our investors with exposure to the precious metals market through a highly liquid, actively managed fund with low leverage. The turbulence of rapid globalisation, in our view, requires a significant allocation of resources to tangible assets like gold which, over time, should provide first capital protection against the loss of purchasing power, and second capital appreciation. Hinde Gold Fund was created to meet the needs of investors as we head into a volatile monetary landscape in the forthcoming years.
Investment Managers
Ben Davies, CEO
Ben Davies ran trading for RBS Greenwich Capital in London where he managed a macro portfolio. He started his career in 1995 trading in the Credit fixed income market at Credit Lyonnais, moving to IBJI as a fixed income specialist and finally Greenwich Capital in 1999. He graduated with a BSc from Loughborough University where he majored in accounting and economics. Ben Davies and Mark Mahaffey, former colleagues from RBS Greenwich Capital, established Hinde Capital in early 2007, primarily to focus on the precious metals and commodity sector.
Mark Mahaffey, CFO
Mark Mahaffey has 24 years experience in the international markets having held senior posts at several leading investment banks. He trained as a fixed income specialist at Daiwa Securities before joining Midland Montagu as Director of the US government trading desk. In 1990 he jointly set up the Greenwich Capital office in London where he managed a portfolio focusing on global macro themes, before joining IBJI in 2001. His most recent appointment from 2005 was Managing Director of Bank of America London Proprietary desk.
Research Analysts
Jonathan Tepper
Jonathan Tepper started his career as generalist equity analyst at SAC Capital in Stamford, Connecticut concentrating on special situations: recapitalizations, spinoffs, and restructurings. After working alongside Mark Mahaffey at Bank of America he has worked at various funds intensifying his research into the resource sector as both a macro and mining analyst. He is a Rhodes Scholar with a M.Litt. in modern history from Oxford University. He graduated with highest honours in history and economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998.
Simon White
Simon White is a Cambridge mathematics graduate with a background in interest rate trading. After graduation Simon went to work for JPMorgan on the US Rates desk, followed by a position at Bank of America as a proprietary trader, where he worked with both Mark Mahaffey and Jonathan Tepper. After a position at a start-up macro hedge fund, he joined Hinde in October 2008.
Mining Consultant
Paul Burton
Paul Burton is Editor of World Gold Analyst, formerly a division of the long-established Mining Journal Ltd, in London, a position he has held for over eleven years. In August 2002, Paul completed a management buyout of World Gold Analyst from the Mining Communications Ltd. Before joining the Mining Journal in 1996, Paul spent over twenty years in various positions within the mining industry. After initially working as a mining engineer he spent much of his career in mineral economics, most notably at Gold Fields, and minerals marketing in South Africa.
Paul graduated from the Camborne School of Mines in 1975 with an Associateship in mining engineering, and subsequently obtained an MSc in Mineral Economics and an MBA, from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Hinde Capital enlists Paul's technical expertise on specific mining projects and he works with our quantitative analyst to provide qualitative insight on all aspects of mining economics and geology. Paul is Chairman of the FTSE Gold Mines Index Committee which he has served on for 10 years, and is well known speaker on the international circuit both on industry and investment side.
