Richard Alexander

Richard Alexander is a securities-dealing and investment-operations specialist based in Edinburgh. Before joining Cornelian Asset Managers, he was a director of Global Equity dealing at BlackRock Investment Management, one of the world's largest asset managers, where his work centred on executing equity trades across global markets.

He joined Cornelian Asset Managers — an Edinburgh-based discretionary investment manager serving private clients, trusts, charities and pension funds — as Associate Director, Investment Operations, according to trade-press coverage of the hire (Investment Week). By 2017 he was referenced as the firm's Head of Dealing, responsible for trade execution and dealing operations rather than for making primary or venture investment decisions.

Cornelian Asset Managers, headquartered at Hobart House, 80 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, was a specialist independent investment manager. In 2019 the firm was acquired by Brooks Macdonald Group, after which the Cornelian brand and its cornelianam.com domain were progressively wound into the acquirer. Richard Alexander's role sits squarely within traditional asset-management dealing and operations, not within startup or angel investing.

• No public angel/seed-stage investment thesis attributable to Richard Alexander could be found. On the available evidence, he does not operate as an angel investor.
• His professional focus is institutional equity dealing and investment operations — trade execution, dealing-desk management, and operational infrastructure within a regulated discretionary wealth manager.
• At the firm level, Cornelian Asset Managers ran multi-asset discretionary portfolios for private clients, charities, trusts and pension funds — a public-markets, managed-portfolio strategy, distinct from early-stage venture or angel investing.