About us
A distribution boutique with names and faces.
Behind every mandate there are specific people, with proven track records and direct relationships with the professional investors of Iberia and Europe.
Who we are
Raising capital is a strategic process, not just another service.
South Hub Investments was founded in Madrid in 2019 on a simple idea: specialist managers deserve the same level of representation in Iberia that they enjoy in their home markets.
We connect international managers with the professional investors of Spain, Portugal and Andorra — asset managers, pension funds, private banks, insurers and family offices — and take Iberian managers out to Europe through our alliance with Hyde Park Investment.
South Hub Investments is a Tied Agent of Ursus-3 Capital, A.V., authorised and regulated by the CNMV (registry no. 251). Hyde Park Investment, our strategic partner, is authorised and regulated by the FCA in the United Kingdom. Working within a supervised framework is not a formality: it is part of how we understand this craft.
How we work
Trust is earned with rigour, and kept with judgement.
Demanding selection
Every manager goes through due diligence including on-site visits, service-provider verification and reference checks. We only represent what meets the standard our investors expect.
Strategic alignment
We only distribute funds whose vision we share, and never strategies that compete with each other. We act as long-term partners to managers, with transparency at all times.
The right language, the right moment
We speak each investor’s language and know the investment cultures of every market. Selling well also means knowing when and how to tell each story.
Confidentiality
We protect managers’ and investors’ sensitive information with the utmost care. It is the basis of relationships that last decades.
Iberian team · Spain, Portugal & Andorra
Who represents you in Spain, Portugal and Andorra.
Direct access to the people who cover each investor in the region — not a call centre and not a rotating account manager.
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Carlos Díez Fuertes
Founder · Spain, Portugal & Andorra Sales
He began at Lehman Brothers in Boston and built his career at HSBC James Capel, where he launched the pan-European equities business for Iberia, and at UBS Investment Bank, where he was Head of Equities and a board member for the region. B.S. in Finance, Boston College.
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Pablo Díaz Megías
Senior Partner · Spain, Portugal & Andorra Sales
CEO, Chairman and Country Head of UBS Spain until 2022, where he built from scratch one of the country’s leading wealth management businesses. Previously at S.G. Warburg and Banco Santander. Economics at CUNEF, with a Master in Strategy and Leadership from IE University.
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Miguel Medina Juanes
Senior Associate · Alternatives
Placement agent specialising in alternative assets after a long career in capital markets at Citibank, covering banks, asset managers, insurers, family offices and corporates in derivatives, fixed income and FX. Law (UCM) and Master in Financial Markets (IEB).
The network · market by market
Every major European market, covered locally.
Coverage market by market, from Madrid outwards: the United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland, the Nordics, the Netherlands and Benelux, France, Italy and Italian-speaking Switzerland, and Malta — senior salespeople who live in their market and hold decades-long relationships with its investors.
Hover or focus a market in the index to locate its coverage on the map. Distances and positions are geographically accurate.
Spain, Portugal & Andorra Sales
Carlos Díez Fuertes · Pablo Díaz Megías · Miguel Medina
South Hub Investments · Madrid
Research, UK Sales, Compliance Officer and MLRO
Guy Baxendale
Hyde Park Investment · London
UK Sales
Jonathan Dabinett
ArchGate Global Partners · London
Founder and Swiss and German Sales
Hako Graf von Finckenstein
Germany and Switzerland
Italy Sales
Paolo Ubaldini
Rome and Milan · Italian and Italian-Swiss market
France Sales
Nathalie Renson
France
Dutch Sales
Jeroen Broers
Netherlands and Benelux
Head of Business Development (Malta)
Darren Abdilla
Hyde Park Investment International · Malta
Nordic region · Archipelago Partners
Anders Palmqvist · Henrik Söderström · Eric Lindeen · Sarah Pastore
Archipelago Partners · Stockholm
The people
Hyde Park Investment, headquartered in London, has coordinated this network since 2004, and South Hub is its partner for Iberia. Each name below covers the market shown beside it, with the same seniority and the same responsibility for the relationship.
Hako Graf von Finckenstein
Founder and Swiss and German Sales
Over thirty years in financial services. He started at Deutsche Bank in 1988, working in Frankfurt, Singapore and New York, and before founding Hyde Park Investment he was an Executive Director at UBS in London, responsible for distributing pan-European equities to German institutional investors. Masters in Business Management, Ludwig-Maximilian University (Munich). English, German and French. FCA approved.
Guy Baxendale
Research, UK Sales, Compliance Officer and MLRO
With Hyde Park Investment since its inception in 2004; his clients are mainly UK family offices and specialist asset managers. He leads the firm’s research into sourcing product suited to institutional investors, and acts as Compliance Officer and MLRO for the group. Previously in hedge fund research at Financial Risk Management in London. Masters in Ancient History, University of Edinburgh. FCA approved.
Milya Vered Foulis
Chief Operating Officer
Buy-side and sell-side experience since 1995: Latin American institutional equity markets at HSBC, then Director at UBS in London distributing equities to pan-European clients, and healthcare analyst on the buy side. MA from Johns Hopkins University.
Paolo Ubaldini
Italy Sales
Almost thirty years across commercial banking, private banking, asset management and investment banking. He began in 1994 at BNL-BNP, ran institutional business development at Arca SGR, led institutional sales at Abaxbank (Credem) and headed portfolio and product solutions at Banca Esperia (Mediobanca Group). He joined Hyde Park in 2023 to cover the Italian and Italian-Swiss market. Economics degree, La Sapienza, Rome.
Nathalie Renson
France Sales
Almost thirty years in finance. She started as an equity analyst at Détroyat Associés and Gefip, was a bond analyst at Scor, and went on to be fund selector and multimanager, CIO and CEO at Primonial AM. Member of the AFTPM, the French third-party marketing association, and of the French fund selector society (SF²).
Jonathan Dabinett
UK Sales
Twenty-five years across public equity, public fixed income, hedge funds and private debt. Eleven years as Head of UK Global Wealth Management at PIMCO, where he built and steered the UK wholesale channel to multi-billion dollar growth, preceded by a decade as senior account manager at Lazard Asset Management. He works through ArchGate Global Partners, a trading name of Arch Capital Limited.
Jeroen Broers
Dutch Sales
Over twenty years in institutional business development, capital raising and investor relations, across private markets, alternatives and traditional asset management. Lehman Brothers, ING Investment Management, BlackRock and Man Group, then Nuveen covering clients across Benelux. He joined Hyde Park in 2026 for the Benelux market. MSc Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Darren Abdilla
Head of Business Development (Malta)
With Hyde Park Investment since January 2012, after more than fifteen years in banking with institutions in Malta and a spell in the analytics function at HSBC Bank Malta. ACCA Advanced Diploma in Accounting and Business, with Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst studies. English and Maltese.
Partners
Archipelago Partners and Archipelago Investments · Stockholm, Sweden — strategic distribution partnership for the Nordic region.
Anders Palmqvist
Founder and Managing Partner · Archipelago Partners
Founder and Managing Partner of Archipelago Partners AB and Nordic Archipelago Investments AB, authorised and regulated by the Swedish FSA. He founded Archipelago in 2014 after twenty-one years at UBS, latterly as CEO of the UBS Group Nordic Region.
Henrik Söderström
Archipelago Partners · Nordic region
More than thirty years in financial services, most of them at UBS, where he was Country Head for the Nordics and the Netherlands and branch manager and COO of the Stockholm and Amsterdam offices between 2014 and 2024, with three years in New York and Stamford. He began at Arbitech / O’Connor & Associates, a leading market maker on the OMX derivatives exchange. Stockholm School of Economics.
Eric Lindeen
Archipelago Partners · Nordic region
Over fifteen years in financial services sales: institutional FX sales at UBS and Morgan Stanley in London, four years in fintech ventures, and six years at IG Markets as premium client manager for the Nordic region. A regular voice in Swedish financial media. MSc Financial Economics, Stockholm School of Economics.
Sarah Pastore
Archipelago Partners · Nordic region
Nearly twenty years with both traditional and alternative international asset managers. She began at GLG Partners in London as an analyst in the sales and asset allocation group, then moved to European business development at Guggenheim Partners and was most recently Sales Director at Ninety One. MSc Management, Cass Business School.
