Notes from a career translating complexity.

Bringing private markets to millions of investors meant disrupting the most entrenched institutions in global finance.

Ten lessons from the successful failure of challenger bank Xinja, on capital, regulation, governance and knowing when to stop.

Wealth advisers aren't a simpler version of institutional investors. Treating them that way is why alternatives still don't sell.

A decade of “democratising” alternatives later, advisers still hold just 2.3%. The job was always translation, not simplification.