John Collins has been appointed a Member at Kinetic Partners, to extend Kinetic’s growing range of risk services. In addition to the Risk and Valuation Services platform, John will develop a broader range of risk consultancy services to investment banks, prime brokers, asset servicers, large asset managers and hedge funds.

Collins has a strong background in risk management. He joins Kinetic Partners having founded and built Rule Financial’s risk practice from a standing start to an established risk advisory practice.

Prior to his role at Rule Financial, Collins was Managing Director at Swiss Re, where he led the integration of portfolio and trading risk management platforms across a $250 billion portfolio of proprietary assets.

He began his career as an accountant and auditor with Baker Tilly, before moving into investment banking at Morgan Stanley and then Citi, where he worked in structured products, alternative investments, and the asset servicing businesses.

John commented: “It is very exciting to be joining Kinetic Partners at such a pivotal time for the financial services industry. Our RVS platform already provides investment managers with highly sought-after, independent and outsourced risk and analytic services. We have a dominant position advising hedge funds in London – 65% of the larger funds are clients – and our investment banking presence is growing. I am looking forward to building our risk services so that we offer clients the best possible advice and solution line-up with regard to their risk management challenges.”

Julian Korek, a founding member added: “We are delighted to have John on board to bolster our already successful risk and valuation service. At a time when investors and regulators are demanding that financial institutions implement stronger risk management processes, it has become even more essential that we can offer all our clients the best service possible in this area.”