Marcus De Silva Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Co-founder of stepstoinvesting.com, a free-to-use educational service for self-directed private investors, aimed at helping those frustrated by stubbornly low interest rates and interested in learning about the topsy-turvy world of investing to earn a better return.

London, United Kingdom

Video strategy and production for financial publishing disruptor

Understanding and exploring the impact of new technologies on the Asset Management industry and Broader Financial Services.

London, United Kingdom

• Presenter for Trust TV - an hour-long panel discussion interviewing fund managers and industry journalists to explore themes around investments, the economy, fund strategies, and the unique features of closed-ended.
• Host for Sub-35 – industry initiative sponsored by six major investment houses that seeks to educate young stockbrokers around the features of investment trusts - an investment vehicle that presently attracts only 5%.
• Investment writing, First State Investments – writer of various marketing documents for professional audiences across a range of First State funds, including strategies within the diversified growth team and the First.
• Host of the Forex awards – live event to award industry companies for excellence across various strategic business functions. Former work:
• CNBC sponsored mini-series on Fintech – six-part short-segment episodes exploring various new fintech technologies across the world, including four in London, looking at areas of smart data, blockchain, robo-advice.

London, United Kingdom

• Marketing strategy - Implementation of the content marketing capability within Janus Henderson’s investment trust team, as well as the co-development of its digital marketing strategy to directly target and acquire.
• Fund strategies - Responsible for the communications of Janus Henderson’s stable of 13 closed-ended investment trusts; across bought, owned and earned digital channels; covering UK, Continental European, Global and.
• Objectives - Growth of Janus Henderson’s investment trust shares held at share dealing services through marketing activities and campaigns across a broad range of distribution channels across the marketing mix..
• Content production – Broader long- and short-form articles, video interviews, animations, mixed-media, blogs, podcasts, infographics and social media content for Janus Henderson’s Investment Trusts. Scheduling and.
• Channel distribution – Testing and optimisation of channel distribution including content on execution-only share dealing platforms, social media channels, email, advertorial pieces for industry publications.
• Budget management - Management of the marketing budget and campaigns on a trust-by-trust basis. Total budget for all 13 trusts approximate £1m.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the production of various investor communications: regulatory documents such as annual and quarterly reports; value-add and fund-specific marketing materials; analytical reports to support US wholesalers; regular communications on fund activities to provide investment rationale & analysis and macro-economic updates; fund manager road-show.

London, United Kingdom

Assisted in the product maintenance of Henderson’s OEICs and Unit Trusts including all asset classes and portfolio strategies. Review of cost structures in the wake of the Retail Distribution Review; fund mergers due to New Star and Gartmore acquisitions; management of legal documents.

UK

Multi-level sales into hospitals (both private and NHS), pharmacies and research laboratories; worked with other companies and colleagues within the organisation to create innovative health solutions. Main role included all parts of the direct sales process from lead generation through to close. In addition: customer management, territory planning.

Bachelor'S Degree, Biology, General, 2:1 (Hons) Arcs

Third Year BSc courses: Advanced topics in Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Parasitism, Epidemiology, Medical Microbiology Second.

Master'S Degree, Management With Finance, Pass With Merit

Activities and Societies: Thesis: Empirical analysis of alternative corporate governance and board structures in Venture Capital backed.

Professional Diploma, Digital Marketing, Pass With Credit

Subjects: Marketing Strategy, Email Marketing, Social Media, Affiliate Marketing, Search, Display Mobile, Content Marketing, Data.

Certified, Oxford Fintech Programm, Distinction

The Oxford Fintech Programme Modules: disruption of financial services, tools for disruptors, future of money, future of markets, future.