Robert Pires is a Chartered Financial Analyst with approximately 25 years’ experience in the management of multi-currency portfolios for institutional and private clients located around the globe.

After working in major money centres overseas, Mr. Pires returned to Bermuda in 1991 and established Bermuda Investment Advisory Services Ltd.(BIAS), an investment management company that provides services to Bermuda-based companies, captive insurers, trusts, and private clients.

Prior to establishing BIAS, Mr. Pires was employed in London by Mercury Asset Management, currently known as Merrill Lynch Asset Management, as a senior portfolio manager responsible for global fixed income portfolios of $500 million. Clients included pension funds, central banks, insurance companies, mutual funds, and high asset value individuals. In 1990, he was seconded to Australia to represent Mercury as a senior executive in a fund management joint venture with Australian stockbroker Potter Partners. He sat on the Executive Committee as well as the Investment Committee where he provided the global input when setting asset allocations.

Mr. Pires' experience includes managing the investments of the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA). During his three-year assignment, he realised a return on the Authority's portfolio of over 70 percent versus an index performance of 37.92 percent.

Mr. Pires has worked for both the Bank of Bermuda and the Bank of Butterfield. At the Bank of Bermuda he assisted in the management of fixed income portfolios including the Bermuda International Bond Fund. At the Bank of Butterfield, he managed Butterfield's US Dollar Bond Fund.

Mr. Pires has an MBA in International Business Finance from George Washington University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Throughout his career, he has served as director on the boards of various international companies based in Europe, South America, the Caribbean, as well as Bermuda. He is currently Vice President of the Bermuda Employer's Council and previously served on the Board of Governors of the Bermuda College and Stonington Beach Hotel. In April 2001 he became a director of the Regal Beach Club, a holiday resort complex in the Cayman Islands.

In 2002 Mr. Pires as Managing Director of BIAS was winner of The Bermudian magazine’s Best of Bermuda Gold Awards under the category of Investment Advice in recognition that he “delivers sound advice, presents you with every option and [in] language that’s easy to understand.”

Mr. Pires was actively involved with Big Brothers and Sisters and is currently a member of the Bermuda Squash Racquets Association. Mr. Pires is frequently asked to sit on discussion panels speaking on issues related to Bermuda’s cultural diversity.

Mr. Pires is an avid art collector and collects Bermuda’s best artists, displaying them throughout the office. With the future opening of our Cayman office, he has already started collecting Caymanian artists’ work. In 2004 Mr. Pires produced and narrated a documentary film on the connection between Bermuda and the Azores called “The Returnees”. In 1999 Mr. Pires was instrumental in raising financing to fund an exhibit of Azorean artists at the Bermuda National Gallery to commemorate the 150th anniversary of planned migration of Portuguese to Bermuda.