IKOS Asset Management

  • 23 May 2011 at 10:58 AM

Hedge Fund Manager Elena Ambrosiadou Accused Of Hiring Extremely Skilled But Occasionally Scatterbrained Spy To Perform Recon On Former Employee, Ex-Husband (Update)

By Bess Levin

Remember Elena Ambrosiadou? She’s the IKOS Asset Management chief who founded the London-based firm with her ex-husband, Martin Coward, in 1993, prior to their marriage hitting the skids and Coward quitting, which caused a bunch of investors to leave as well. Sometime after that Ambrosiadou made the executive decision to have the keys to a private jet Gover was flying confiscated, stranding him in France (with his new gal-pal) and firing the research team that worked under him. And according to one of the employees who got the boot, she was just getting started. Continue reading »

  • 15 Dec 2009 at 10:20 AM

Dealing With Marital Strife, Passive-Aggressively

By John Shazar

Read between these lines:

I have decided to leave Ikos to recreate my vision of a research focused team with talented, experienced professionals. I plan to establish a smaller investment management company to manage family and other assets.

That’s Martin Coward talking about his wife’s hedge fund, IKOS Asset Management.

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