Interview with Dermot Butler, Chairman of Custom House Global Fund Services Ltd
Eurekahedge
March 2009
Dermot Butler, Chairman of CustomHouse Global Fund Services Ltd (CHGFS), has more than 35 years’ experience in the financial services industry. Butler has worked as both a stockbroker and stock jobber (market-maker or specialist) on the London Stock Exchange; and subsequently, as a commodity broker and as a principal dealer in commodity options on the London Metal and London Commodity Exchanges.
He was a founder member of McDonnell & Co Ltd (McD), a Bermuda-based fund management company set up in 1983. It was one of the first fund management companies to outsource all of its investment management functions. By the end of 1988, McD had over US$100 million in assets. Early in 1989, Butler moved to Dublin and established the Custom House Group of Companies, of which, today, the parent company is CHGFS
Butler has written numerous articles on various aspects of alternative investments and the hedge fund industry. He is a regular speaker at conferences on subjects relating to the management, administration and regulatory of offshore funds. He is a director of several fund companies, many of which are listed on the Irish Stock Exchange, and was, for six years, until last September, the deputy chairman of AIMA (The Alternative Investment Management Association).
