Destination Europe with Pemberton’s Co-Founder Symon Drake-Brockman

About this episode

The episode discusses the shift of investor focus from America to Europe with insights from Symon Drake-Brockman.

As America turns inwards, investors are turning east, towards Europe. It’s a seismic shift not seen since the end of WWII. In this episode, we talk with Symon Drake-Brockman, co-founder and Managing Partner of Pemberton Asset Management, one of Europe’s largest private credit platforms, about the implications of this shift. Prior to starting Pemberton, Symon navigated critical world events on behalf of major financial institutions, including the impact of Russia seizing Crimea, the Asian financial crisis, the Global Financial Crisis, and COVID. During our conversation, Symon helps to put current events into perspective and offers insights as to why today’s capital allocators are rediscovering Europe.

People in this episode

Guest: Symon Drake-Brockman

Topics covered

• private markets
• investment trends
• European economy
• capital allocation
• financial crises

Keywords

• private credit
• Pemberton
• Europe
• investment
• financial institutions
• capital allocators
• economic implications

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pemberton Asset Management

Places: Europe, America

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