From Bloomberg via gCaptain, November 29:
The family office for Maria Angelicoussis, Greece’s richest shipping magnate, is boosting publicly traded investments after notching up huge gains in private market bets, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Nicrone, the private investment firm of Angelicoussis Group’s owner, has pivoted since former hedge fund executive Laura Lavers took over last year, the people said, asking not to be identified as details on the firm’s strategy are private. Nicrone previously mostly allocated to private markets.
The family office has also recently hired Ben Goldsmith, a 39-year-old former executive at London-based stock-picking firm Zeno Equity Partners, as part of the refocus, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private information. Goldsmith, who left Zeno in March, is now London-based head of public markets at Nicrone, according to his LinkedIn profile.
A representative for Angelicoussis – who has a net worth of $6.6 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index – declined to comment. Goldsmith didn’t respond to a request for comment....
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