 Alastair MacGregor BSc MSc CFA
Oakdene Hollins welcomes our recent recruit Alastair MacGregor who joins us as a Technical Consultant.
Alastair has – through an interesting route – a particular expertise in welfare economics and the environment, environmental valuation, natural resource economics, environmental policy, and globalization and the environment.
After gaining his BSc(Hons) in Chemistry from Newcastle University, Alastair worked first for equity analyst Friends Ivory & Sime, and then for Balfour Capital as a fund manager where he identified investment opportunities and integrated risk management into the process.
Between 2001 and 2007 he was an investment manager at New Star Asset Management, responsible for investment research of companies involving detailed analysis of financial statements and valuations, and the application of microeconomics to business situations. He also developed a risk model which was deployed across all equity hedge funds at New Star.
In 2008-9 Alastair retrained at Cranfield University and gained an MSc in Economics for Natural Resource and Environmental Management. At Cranfield he also co-managed a team of 12 students advising Bedfordshire Borough Council on possible economic stimulus measures, with a focus on sustainable investment, to mitigate the impact on the local economy of the current economic downturn.
His thesis explored the impact of a mandate introducing an escalating recycled content for plastic bottles on the stability of plastic recyclate markets and on incidences of bottle reuse.
Alastair is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA Institute, USA) and has a Certificate in Investment Management.
He lists his interests as skiing, fly-fishing, diving and golf, but since his first child is due very soon, he can say goodbye to all that...
 Peter Willis MSc BSc
We welcome Peter Willis, our newest Technical Consultant, who joins us from UCL.
After gaining a BSc (1st Class Hons) in Economics from the London School of Economics, Peter went on to read Economics for an MSc at University College London, and has just finished his thesis on the economic costs and benefits of an electrical interconnector between Tasmania and Victoria in Australia.
He is now something of an expert in micro- and macroeconomics and econometrics, game theory, industrial organisation, in computer programming relating to mathematics, statistics and econometrics, and in the economics and econometrics of policy evaluation.
Peter has also had a grounding in the real and practical world of FMCG retail, and has done voluntary work in Senegal, teaching under-privileged children in French.
While at the LSE he was the ‘A’ Team Bridge Captain and Vice President of LSESU Bridge Society, as well as Member of Training Squad for the England International U25’s Team. But we’re expecting Peter to be Oakdene Hollins’ trump card from now on…
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