Benjamin Durrant
ICG Advisors
As part of the senior team at ICG Advisors, a group that is setting a high standard for independent investment consulting, Benjamin Durrant is responsible for manager due diligence and client relations, and sits on the investment committee. The Los Angeles–based firm, a business originally founded in 1988 by onetime Oppenheimer & Co. financial adviser J. Jeffrey Assaf, builds bespoke portfolios for superwealthy individuals, family offices and small foundations and endowments.
Hedge funds typically make up 50 percent or more of those portfolios. Durrant, 39, joined ICG in 2009. At the start of that year, the firm, which had been part of Bear Stearns Cos., was spun out from parent JPMorgan Chase & Co. The U.K.-born Durrant moved to the U.S. in 1991 to attend college, earning a BA in psychology from Tufts University and an MBA from Columbia University.
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| Name | Firm |
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| Clayton DeGiacinto | Axonic Capital |
| Benjamin Durrant | ICG Advisors |
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| Joshua Fink | Enso Capital Management |
| Pierre-Henri Flamand | Edoma Capital Partners |
| Gareth Henry | Fortress Investment Group |
| Erez Kalir | Sabretooth Capital Management |
| Katie Kalvoda | Newport Wealth Management |
| Edward Keller | Morgan Stanley |
| Andrew Laurino | Credit Suisse |
| Svetlana Lee | Varna Capital |
| Gary Lehrman | Lombard Odier Investment Managers |
| Greth Lester | Perella Weinberg Partners |
| Greg Lippmann | LibreMax Capital |
| J. Jason Mitchell | GLG Partners |
| Gaurav Patankar | Lockheed Martin Investment Management Co. |
| Craig Perry | Sabretooth Capital Management |
| Scott Pittman | Mount Sinai Medical Center |
| Gregory Racz | Hutchin Hill Capital |
| Angela Samfilippo | Pine River Capital Management |
| Jill Schurtz | Robeco-Sage Capital Management |
| Jonathan Shafter | Boston Provident |
| Steven Simmons | Maxim Group |
| Scott Sinclair | Cascabel Management |
| Faisal Syed | Pamli Capital Management |
| Morgan Sze | Azentus Capital Management |
| Oliver Wiener | BTIG |
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