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.
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