Luca Avellini

Luca Avellini is a Partner with JW Partners, an investment firm specializing in foreign exchange.

JW Partners offers both a multi-manager and a single manager FX investment program. Formerly President of the Global Custodian Institute, the training and consulting arm of Asset International based in Greenwich, Connecticut, Mr. Avellini started his career as a commodity trader in Paris and benefits from more than 15 years' experience in the equity derivatives, foreign exchange, and risk management departments of several top investment banks and trading firms, most recently UBS in London and New York. He has followed the hedge fund industry very closely since its early days. He holds a Masters degree from ...More Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York and a BS in Economics from the University of Pavia, Italy. Author of several articles about derivatives and risk management, he has acted as adviser to a number of financial firms including Bank Julius Baer and Black Pearl. Former marketing director at FinTuition in London, he still trains the firm's institutional clients in the area of hedge fund analysis.

Mr. Avellini is based in New York City.