The Crossroads Conversation
Endure, change seats, strike out on your own, or walk away. Most people in this industry carry that question alone for months because there's nobody safe to ask. Two focused conversations with someone who has stood at each of those forks — and who needs no briefing on what a drawdown, a poll season or a pod closure actually means. Key components include, but are not limited to: - A clear-eyed look at what is actually driving the urge to move - The real trade-offs of each path, from someone who has taken more than one of them - What financial and professional runway you'd need for each - A decision you can live with, or a clear sense of what you need to know before making it
What's included
- Either a decision you can live with, or a clear articulation of why it can't be made yet and what would change that
- Named the thing actually driving the urge to move, which is often not the thing you came in with
Meet your expert
Paul W.
Life Coach for Finance Professionals — I've Sat in Your Seat and the Storm
I've spent twenty-plus years in Asian equities, in every seat the industry offers. Ten years on the sell side at CLSA in Tokyo and Hong Kong, ranked Asiamoney #1 best analyst in the region five years running. Five years inside hedge funds — running my own book as a portfolio manager at Horizon, and most recently as a senior analyst on a Japan market-neutral pod at Millennium. In between, five years independent as founder, CIO and head of alternative investments: I launched a hedge-fund allocation practice for family offices, conducting due diligence on 100+ managers, then co-founded an asset management firm and took it through SFC licensing as its Responsible Officer, growing it from a private-equity and real-estate shop into a multi-strategy alternatives platform. Today I also design and build agentic-AI research workflows for my own global-equities portfolio. Born and raised in Hong Kong, educated in England, and lived in Japan for a decade. Native English and Cantonese, fluent Mandarin and Japanese.
