Pauls Miklasevics
Chief Asset Management Officer
Pauls is the Chief Asset Management Officer at BluOr Bank. He is responsible for the day to day decision making and strategic planning for client investment portfolios.
Pauls has 20 years of experience in investment management. He began his career as an institutional equity trader at a boutique mutual fund company in Toronto, Canada, and has spent the past ten years managing investment portfolios for high net worth European clients in Riga, Latvia. Pauls has a BA in Economics from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and was recently named one of the ‘’Top 30 Creative People in Business in Latvia” by ‘Kapitāls’ magazine. Pauls is proud to serve on the board of directors of Ronald McDonald House Charities Latvia and on the board of directors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Latvia.
Peteris Celms
Investment analyst
Peteris is a client investment portfolio manager at BluOr Bank. He is responsible for financial market analysis, daily accounting and reporting and assisting with strategic planning.
Peteris joined the BluOr Bank team in 2018. Before that, Peteris worked at a boutique Swiss investment fund for 3 years, where he was the lead emerging markets equity analyst.
He attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, where he obtained a BA in Economics with a specialisation in financial markets. Peteris is a regular contributor in the Latvian financial media on topics in investments.
Innovation is stronger than
ever, innovation stocks are not
“We always overestimate the change that
will occur in the next two years and
underestimate the change that will occur
in the next 10.” — Bill Gates
23.01.2023
The Downsides of Free Money
Looking back over the past two and a
half years at the extraordinary post-
Covid boom in the technology sector
and its subsequent bust, one question
comes to mind – was any of it real?
22.12.2022
Central Bank Limits
and Opportunities for
Investors
If you see though the obfuscation
of central bank interest rates
policy you have a chance to profit.
24.11.2022
Necessary, but not
cheap - the reality of
renewable energy deployment
140 years ago, the Edison Illuminating
Company built the world’s first central
power station and cogeneration plant in
New York City.
25.09.2022
How I will encourage my
daughter to be a successful
investor
You are now a year old, and I am
convinced that you are ready to
shoulder your father's ambitions of
being one of the finest investors of all
time.
18.08.2022
Cartels, conflict and potash
The use of the term 'cartel' is usually
associated with Columbian or
Mexican drug lords, but 15 years ago,
the two richest cartels on earth had
nothing to do with narcotics.
25.07.2022
Education is the best
investment, so why do
universities invest elsewhere?
“An investment in education always
pays the highest returns.”
– Benjamin Franklin
16.06.2022
Challenges in the building
sector in the context of
sustainability
Designed by some of the world’s
best architectural minds to withstand
any hurricane, the New Choluteca
Bridge in the Honduras was
completed in 1998, just in time to be
put to the test.
13.05.2022
How global corporates
are striving for climate
neutrality
There is an ever-growing share
of companies publicly committing
to achieving climate neutrality
and sustainable business objectives
in the foreseeable future.
09.05.2022
Get Used To Higher Oil Prices
For the foreseeable future oil will remain
the lifeblood of the world economy,
supply will continue to struggle to keep
up with demand and prices will rise until
demand is destroyed.
18.04.2022
Human Capital, Attraction
and the Exponential Age
“The empires of the future are the
empires of the mind”
– Winston Churchill
28.03.2022
Shifting Undercurrents -
globalisation to
regionalisation and the
impact on investments
Supply chain disruptions caused by
the pandemic have caused whiplash
in almost every corner of the global
economy.
16.02.2022
The Hedgehog and the
Fox – Investment Edition
According to Bogle, ‘foxes’ were
traditional mutual fund managers
who try to outperform markets by
engaging in various strategies
15.12.2021