Kevin Ballard
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- Full Name
- Kevin Ballard
- Title
- Co-Founder & CCO
- Firm
- Block Asset Management S.à r.l.
- Firm Type
- Institutional investment manager; digital-assets fund-of-funds and systematic-strategies manager
- Investment Stage
- Fund-of-funds allocations to digital-asset managers and strategies; no verified evidence found that he is primarily a seed-stage angel investor
- Target Company Profile
- Specialist digital-asset managers and strategies with repeatable investment processes, operational robustness, custody controls, risk discipline, and liquidity/capacity fit
- Sector Focus
- Digital assets, blockchain, crypto fund-of-funds, market-neutral digital assets, systematic BTC/ETH strategies, quantitative FX and commodities
- Geographic Focus
- Global professional and qualified investors; Block Asset Management has described investors across five continents and distribution-expansion interest in Africa and Asia
- Location
- Isle of Man; firm headquartered at 30, Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg
Background
Kevin Ballard is Co-Founder and CCO of Block Asset Management, a Luxembourg-based investment manager focused on digital assets and systematic investment strategies. The firm says it has focused on digital assets since 2017 and provides professional and qualified investors with access to digital-asset fund-of-funds, market-neutral, systematic digital-asset, and quantitative FX/commodities strategies.
Block Asset Management’s official team page describes Ballard as having more than 25 years of experience in banking, wealth management, fund management, UK and offshore markets, compliance, and business development. The same source says he previously worked at Lloyds International and co-founded a fund distribution firm.
Older Block Asset Management materials and third-party profiles identify Ballard as co-founder of Wealthics Global Partners and describe prior experience including global sales for a UK real-estate fund, intermediary business development at Lloyds TSB International, and work as an international financial adviser in Latin America. Block Asset Management’s site also notes his completion of the Oxford Said University Fintech Program.
His current role appears more commercial, fundraising, distribution, and investor-relations oriented than direct startup investing: public posts describe him seeking distribution partners for Block Asset Management’s digital-assets fund and inviting wealth managers to discuss the fund.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Block Asset Management’s stated philosophy: “durable outcomes in digital assets and systematic markets come from diversification across complementary return sources, disciplined risk management, and continuous research.”
- The firm’s fund-of-funds approach seeks diversified exposure to selected digital-asset managers and strategies, rather than reliance on a single manager, token, or directional market view.
- Manager selection emphasizes investment process, risk discipline, infrastructure, custody arrangements, and operational robustness.
- The firm looks for strategy rationale, repeatable investment process, drawdown controls, team stability, incentive alignment, capacity, and liquidity fit.
- Target investor base is professional and qualified investors, including high-net-worth individuals, family offices, wealth managers, asset managers, private banks, financial advisers, professional investors, qualified investors, and institutional allocators.
- Public sources do not verify a personal angel-investing check size for Ballard.
Notable Investments
- Public sources reviewed do not disclose Kevin Ballard’s personal angel investments or individual seed-stage portfolio companies.
- Blockchain Strategies Fund / Multi-strategy Digital Assets Fund of Funds: Block Asset Management’s flagship digital-assets fund-of-funds strategy, launched around the end of 2017, designed to allocate across specialist managers and digital-asset strategies.
- Market Neutral Digital Assets Fund of Funds: Block Asset Management strategy focused on alpha generation and market-neutral digital-asset managers.
- Systematic Digital Asset Strategies: Block Asset Management strategy using algorithmic long/short models on liquid digital assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum via CFDs.
- Quantitative FX & Commodities Strategies: Block Asset Management strategy applying systematic quantitative models to selected FX and commodities markets.
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