Pauls Miklasevics
Chief Investment Officer (CIO)
Pauls is the Chief Investment 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 the American Chamber of Commerce in Latvia and is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Ronald McDonald House Charities Latvija.
Portfolio Manager
Dmitrijs 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.
Dmitrijs joined the BluOr Bank team in 2023. Before that, Dmitrijs worked at the Bank of Latvia where he was a quantitative investment and risk analyst.
He attended the University of Latvia, where he obtained a BSc in International Economic relations and was a Baltic-American Freedom Foundation scholarship recipient.
Dmitrijs played point guard for Latvia’s national basketball team at the 2012 FIBA U18 European Championship.
The way successful investors
think
17.11.2023
No person that has ever made
significant returns in financial markets
or made an impact on the world has
ever woken up in the morning and said
“I want to be average”. Life doesn’t
work that way.
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Dawn Fitzpatrick - Soros
Super Team Ace
17.08.2023
In daily life, it is important to bet on
a good team rather than just on a
single superstar. Creating an
environment based on transparency
that promotes interaction and the
exchange of ideas is crucial.
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Latvian Davos – WLEIF
18.07.2023
WLEIF cannot solve all of our challenges
through one day of discussions, but it
can continue to build bridges and bring
Latvians and friends of Latvia around
the world closer together through the
power of private initiative and personal
connection.
AI – killer robots or a massive
opportunity?
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This all sounds very promising! But if you
are an investor you might be thinking
how can I invest my capital to benefit
from this new technology?
Money, Influence and the
True Appeal of Football
22.05.2023
Top level football is the bastion of
oligarchs, private equity and huge TV
money, but “Welcome to Wrexham”
focused on personal journeys and
football’s emotional impact.
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Solar power and
geopolitical thunder
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4 trillion euros.
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needed in order to achieve Europe’s
clean energy goals over the next 10
years according to Goldman Sachs.
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Innovation is stronger than
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“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
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The Downsides of Free Money
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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?
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Central Bank Limits
and Opportunities for
Investors
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If you see though the obfuscation
of central bank interest rates
policy you have a chance to profit.
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Necessary, but not
cheap - the reality of
renewable energy deployment
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140 years ago, the Edison Illuminating
Company built the world’s first central
power station and cogeneration plant in
New York City.
How I will encourage my
daughter to be a successful
investor
18.08.2022
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.
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Cartels, conflict and potash
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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.
Education is the best
investment, so why do
universities invest elsewhere?
16.06.2022
“An investment in education always
pays the highest returns.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Challenges in the building
sector in the context of
sustainability
13.05.2022
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.
How global corporates
are striving for climate
neutrality
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There is an ever-growing share
of companies publicly committing
to achieving climate neutrality
and sustainable business objectives
in the foreseeable future.
Get Used To Higher Oil Prices
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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.
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Human Capital, Attraction
and the Exponential Age
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“The empires of the future are the
empires of the mind”
– Winston Churchill
Shifting Undercurrents -
globalisation to
regionalisation and the
impact on investments
16.02.2022
Supply chain disruptions caused by
the pandemic have caused whiplash
in almost every corner of the global
economy.
The Hedgehog and the
Fox – Investment Edition
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According to Bogle, ‘foxes’ were
traditional mutual fund managers
who try to outperform markets by
engaging in various strategies