Ashley Bendell.
Ashley Bendell joined the New York office of Exotix in 2007 as a Sub Saharan Equity specialist. Ashley started his career at Credit Suisse, London within the Prime Brokerage Sales department and was later transferred to the New York office to expand the firm's Emerging Europe, Middle East and African (EEMEA) Equity sales force. During this time Ashley gained a strong reputation and numerous awards for his client focused approach. His client base at Exotix includes US and African based institutional and hedge fund managers, for which he provides investment insight, corporate access, management trips/ meetings to Africa, and marketing insight.
He graduated from Edinburgh University (spending his Junior year at the University of New Mexico)and shortly after completed a Masters in Investment Analysis (MSc) from Stirling University, Scotland.He is extremely well travelled having visited over 50 countries across the developed and emerging world, including Africa.
Exotix is a leading London based frontier emerging market firm, originally set up to focus on the fixed income markets in 1999, when ICAP plc (the world's largest broker dealer) co-seeded it. Exotix maintains a large and diverse global frontier client base given their background, and since launching their African business two years ago now offer independent insight, and research into approximately 200 companies across the whole sub Saharan region (a database going back to 2000). Exotix provides strong execution capabilities and color due to the maintenance of various broker relationships within each market, as well as the active involvement of their client base. Finally, Exotix also places great emphasis on the execution and settlement of trades in these markets, and works very closely with clients during the early stages of their investments in the region.
