In 1996, Mr. Hopkins established Fortune, a diversified hedge fund management and advisory firm, and its research affiliate Global Fund Analysis. In 2006, Close Brothers Group plc, a leading UK merchant bank, acquired a controlling interest in the firm. Today, Fortune manages the Fortune family of funds, and numerous customised mandates, overseeing over £3 billion for a wide range of institutional clients including insurance companies, private banks, family offices and endowments. The firm has also seeded over 20 single strategy funds over the last decade through its unique emerging manager program. He brings to the Fortune team a deep understanding of global investors and the driving forces of fund investing.

Having started her career as a Financial Analyst for Morgan Stanley in Mergers and Acquisitions, between 1979-1981 she became Vice President-Corporate Finance at Credit Suisse First Boston between 1983-1987. She subsequently became a senior portfolio manager at Rho Asset Management, where she managed the firm's assets across a range of strategies including global and European equity long/short, relative value, fixed income and macro. She also developed Rho's private equity businesses in in Berlin, after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Between 1993-1999 Nancy held a number of positions at Baring Asset Management including Head of Emerging Markets, Member of European Investment and Asset Allocation Team as well as Member of the Board of Baring Asset Management and Baring Venture Partners.

His prior experience includes over 30 years on Wall Street including 22 years as director of futures research for some of Wall Street's leading firms, where he also spent ten years as the co-principal of a commodity trading advisory business. Mr Schwager began his career with Reynolds Securities as a research analyst (1971 to 1973), and then moved to Loeb Rhoades Hornblower where he became director of futures research (1973 to 1979). From 1979 to 1983 he was director of futures research at Smith Barney, and from 1983 to 1984 he was director of research (for one trading group) at Commodities Corporation. He was director of futures research at Paine Webber from 1984 to 1988, and director of futures research at Prudential Securities from 1988 to 1996. Between 1996 and 1999 he continued to work for Prudential as a consultant.

Mr. Schwager has written extensively on the futures industry and great traders (in all financial markets). His first book, "A Complete Guide to the Futures Markets", which was published in 1984, is considered to be one of the classic reference works in the field. More than a decade later he revised and expanded this original work into the three-volume series, "Schwager on Futures", consisting of "Fundamental Analysis" (1995), "Technical Analysis" (1996), and "Managed Trading: Myths and Truths"(1996). He is also the author of "Getting Started in Technical Analysis" (1999), which is part of John Wiley's popular "Getting Started" series. Mr Schwager is perhaps best known for his best-selling series of interviews with the greatest hedge fund managers of the last two decades, which includes "Market Wizards" (1989), "The New Market Wizards" (1992), and "Stock Market Wizards" (2001). Mr. Schwager is a frequent seminar speaker and has lectured on a range of analytical topics with particular focus on the characteristics of great traders, technical analysis, and trading system evaluation. He holds a BA in Economics from Brooklyn College (1970) and an MA in Economics from Brown University (1971).

Richard was educated at the University of New South Wales, where he received a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in Neurophysiology and consequently received a Commonwealth Post Graduate Doctoral Scholarship to pursue a Ph.D in Neurophysiology. Subsequently spending 5 years in medical research, Richard had numerous papers published in British and American medical journals.

From 2004-2006, Mr Ebert was chairman of Quadrum Partners, a corporate finance advisory firm based in Zurich. From 2001-2004, he was a Member of the Executive Committee of Lombard Odier Darrier Hentsch, Geneva/Zurich, responsible for Equity Brokerage, M&A, Sales & Trading and Private Equity. From 1998-2001 he was joint CEO of WestLB Panmure, an investment banking / institutional brokerage firm in London and Dusseldorf, when he also served as a Director of West Private Equity and founded two of WestLB's private equity funds. From 1990-1998, Mr Ebert was employed by UBS in London and Zurich where he was the Chairman of its Investment Banking Management Board, Head of European M&A and Global Co-ordinator of M&A. From 1985-1990 he was Director of trans-Atlantic M&A at Citicorp Scrimgeour Vickers in London. Prior to that he was an auditor at Price Waterhouse in London.

Gary has been involved with Fortune Asset Management since the first year, and brings this knowledge, together with more than ten years business experience to his role as Finance Director.

Upon leaving the US Army as an Airborne-Ranger Qualified Infantry Captain in 1974, he joined Merrill Lynch to serve corporations as risk-manager specializing in equity, oil and metals derivatives hedging until 1982. He then joined Prudential Securities to advise banks on hedging interest rate exposures, specializing in the nascent mortgage-origination/MBS-pipeline risks arena until 1994. He then formed his own risk and portfolio management firms and later marketed option-based portfolio management strategies for a specialized institutional manager. He has raised assets for alternative investment managers since 1992.

His consulting roles have included assignments for Morrison and Foerster; Salans, Hertzfeld & Heilbronn; Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, the Ministry of Mines of Argentina and European Investment Bank. Served as counsel to Surrey & Morse and to Sullivan & Cromwell (Attorneys at Law). Currently consultant at the law offices of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae. Graduated University of Oxford (MA Oxon, Law), Columbia University's School of International Affairs (MIA, Economics, International Relations and Law) with a fellowship between 1959 and 1962, also at The Hague Academy of International Law.

Charles created a research firm called Cecogest in 1974. In 1986, Charles co-founded Cursitor-Eaton Asset Management where he was Chief Investment Officer until the firm was sold in 1995 to Alliance Capital. At Cursitor, Charles managed over US$10bn of institutional money on a global asset allocation mandate. In 1999, Charles left Alliance Capital and created GaveKal Research. Charles also sits on the board of numerous other European companies including Global Fund Analysis and Ecowin in which he also holds equity participations.