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James Harkness, P.eng
Directeur principal, Conseil aux clients
James est directeur principal chez bfinance Canada, où il se consacre au développement des affaires et aux relations avec les investisseurs institutionnels. Il possède plus de 25 ans d'expérience dans les domaines de la technologie financière, de l'analytique de données et de la gestion de placements.
Avant de se joindre à bfinance, James a occupé des postes de direction chez Altus Group, Juniper Square et MSCI, où il conseillait des clients institutionnels en matière d'analytique de la performance, d'évaluation et de solutions de données. Il a amorcé sa carrière dans les technologies et les services financiers, ayant travaillé chez Fidelity National Information Services et BMO.
James est titulaire d'un diplôme en génie mécanique et d'un MBA de l'Université Queen's.
Autres analyses de l'équipe :
AI, hyperscalers and corporate bond indices: signal or narrative?
We ask what record hyperscaler issuance means for investment-grade benchmarks, and where it matters for investors.
Tsao: building a credible impact equity allocation
Impact investing in listed equities is often treated as the hard case compared with private markets. Critics argue that buying shares in the secondary market creates little...
Platform complexity: what still earns its place for wealth managers?
A wealth firm can apply rigorous governance to every investment, fund or strategy that it offers and still, over time, end up with a platform that no one would deliberately build today.
CLO debt: Solvency II changes the capital equation for insurers
A bfinance poll of EU insurers points to a material increase in CLO debt allocations through 2027.
Navigating semi-liquid private markets in a world of closed-end data
Investors considering today’s expanded landscape of semi-liquid or evergreen vehicles for private market investing face a key challenge.
Portfolio resilience: rethinking the foundations
The ground beneath the idea of portfolio resilience has shifted in the ‘turbulent twenties’ – how can allocators adjust?
Private credit and the asset allocation challenge
Increasingly, asset allocation models are treating Private Credit as a strategic asset class with its own clearly defined profile, rather than an implementation solution within a fixed income or...
bfinance Platform: real assets, UK open-ended property funds in five charts
M&A activity, such as the recent news of the combination of the Columbia Threadneedle and PATRIZIA UK property funds fits a neat narrative.
