‘I have no safety net’: Why this AAA-rated PM went it alone

Citywire: The Selection Show

In the first episode of Boutique Builders, we heard about what it means to be asked to take on a project and develop an idea, but what if you are the person driving that change. Where do you start? What do you do? And, perhaps crucially, what do you not do?

This week, Krystle Higgins speaks to Cesar Fernandez, who has swapped life as a Citywire AAA-rated emerging market debt manager at Julius Baer to develop his own idea – Alpha Credit Advisors. Fernandez talks about working away from the institutionalised thinking of asset manager, why it is important to learn how to lose and what previous experience running big projects on his own has taught him.