About Artemis

Senior-led Cayman governance, built around the people doing the work.

Artemis Advisory is a Cayman-based investment manager and independent director practice: CIMA-regulated, an SEC Exempt Reporting Adviser, and deliberately small so the people you meet are the people who run your engagement.

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A Cayman firm built around senior involvement

Artemis Advisory is a Cayman Islands investment management and governance firm. We provide senior-led support across a focused suite of services: our Cayman investment management solution, independent and Economic Substance directorships, Cayman Economic Substance support, BVI Approved Manager arrangements, and outsourced risk management engagements.

Our work spans multi-strategy hedge funds, DeFi and crypto trading funds, operating companies requiring independent directorships, structures with AIFMD requirements, and US managers with Cayman vehicles. Whatever the structure, the common thread is the same: a real Cayman presence, exercised by people with the seniority and time to do the job properly.

Regulated, accredited, accountable

Artemis is regulated by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority as a SIBA Registered Person and is an Exempt Reporting Adviser with the US SEC. All Artemis directors are registered with CIMA under the Directors Registration and Licensing Act, are Accredited Directors with the Chartered Governance Institute of Canada and are members of the Cayman Islands Directors Association.

These aren’t badges on a wall. They shape how we work: how we scope engagements, how we evidence decisions, and how we hold ourselves accountable to clients, counsel and regulators.

Who we work with

We work with fund managers, sponsors, counsel and financial service providers who need practical Cayman presence, clear oversight and experienced judgement. Typically that means:

  • Emerging and mid-sized managers launching a Cayman-domiciled vehicle
  • Established managers wanting a Cayman presence without building out an office
  • Managers of structures with AIFMD requirements, including separation of portfolio and risk functions
  • Finance and leasing companies, holding structures and SPVs in scope of Economic Substance
  • Groups planning eventual in-house licensing but needing an interim solution that works

A bespoke firm, not a platform

Artemis is deliberately not a platformed or outsourced support model. Engagements are built around direct senior involvement: scoped carefully at the outset, documented properly as they run, and honest about what will and won’t work.

Honest advice, even when the answer is “this won’t work”, and the clarity, control and regulatory confidence to act on it.

That is what fund managers, lawyers and service providers come to us for, and it is what we intend to keep offering as Cayman’s regulatory world grows more complex.

The firm in numbers

Senior-led, on-island, and properly credentialled

Artemis is a small firm by design. The numbers below reflect the experience, regulatory footing and Cayman presence behind every engagement.

22+

Investment management experience

Alastair's career spanning London and the Cayman Islands, from Rathbone and Rothschild to FTI and FFP.

100+

Supported across Cayman structures

Direct experience across hedge funds, DeFi and crypto vehicles, finance and leasing companies and holding structures.

2

CIMA SIBA Registered Person, SEC ERA

Regulated by CIMA as a SIBA Registered Person and an Exempt Reporting Adviser with the US SEC.

100%

Accredited Directors on the team

Every Artemis director is Acc. Dir. qualified with the Chartered Governance Institute of Canada and a CIDA member.

The people behind Artemis

Deliberately senior-led. Every engagement is handled by the people whose names sit on the door.

Between them, our directors bring more than two decades of investment management experience, front-office and audit backgrounds, and active board seats across hedge funds, DeFi and crypto vehicles and operating companies. All are registered with CIMA under the Directors Registration and Licensing Act, Accredited Directors with the Chartered Governance Institute of Canada and CIDA members.

Alastair Loxton

Alastair Loxton

Founder, Director & Chief Investment Officer

Al founded Artemis to offer a genuinely bespoke alternative to platform-led providers, and to provide senior, hands-on support to entities meeting their Cayman governance and Economic Substance requirements.

He has more than 22 years in investment management across London and the Cayman Islands. Before Artemis, he was Head of Investment Management at FFP Advisors and part of the senior team at FTI Consulting in Cayman, where he helped launch and run FTI Capital Management, a US SEC-registered investment adviser focused on the managed wind-down of investment funds for institutional clients. Earlier, he spent 11 years with a multi-billion-dollar Cayman single-family office, headhunted from London to build the front-office trading team and risk framework, managing direct investments, hedge funds and private equity. He began his career at Rathbone Group and Rothschild Bank in London, managing capital for some of Europe’s wealthiest families.

Outside work, Al is most at home on or in the water, freediving, surfing and fishing, and values the discipline and stillness the ocean demands.

  • Chartered Fellow, Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI)
  • Accredited Director, Chartered Governance Institute of Canada
  • Registered Director, Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (DRLA)
  • Member, Cayman Islands Directors Association

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Hugh McBride

Hugh McBride

Director

Hugh is a Director at Artemis, supporting the firm’s work across fund governance, Cayman Economic Substance, investment management, BVI Approved Manager appointments and risk management engagements. His work spans multi-strategy hedge funds, DeFi and crypto trading funds and operating company directorships.

He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with EY in London before relocating to the Cayman Islands with PwC in 2017. Since then he has built experience across audit, fund administration, internal finance and front-office commodity trading, most recently as a Trade Analyst for the largest petroleum fuels distributor in the Caribbean, monitoring physical and financial positions across 23 markets. That mix gives him a practical read on how investment structures actually operate: how controls are evidenced, how reporting flows, and how governance works in real time.

Away from work, Hugh has played rugby since childhood, representing England at schoolboy level and Cayman at men’s level. He also dives, swims and travels with his family.

  • Chartered Accountant (ICAS)
  • Accredited Director, Chartered Governance Institute of Canada
  • Registered Director, Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (DRLA)
  • Member, Cayman Islands Directors Association
  • Currently studying for the IMC and CAIA

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How we work

Senior-led Cayman governance, built around the people who do the work.

Artemis Advisory is a Cayman Islands investment management and governance firm. We support fund managers, sponsors, counsel and service providers who need practical Cayman presence, clear oversight and experienced judgement, not a platformed, outsourced compliance shop.

Our work spans Cayman investment management appointments, independent and Economic Substance directorships, BVI Approved Manager arrangements and outsourced risk management. Each engagement is scoped around the structure in front of us and led directly by the people whose names are on the door.

  • CIMA SIBA Registered Person
  • SEC Exempt Reporting Adviser
  • Accredited Directors (CGIC)
  • Cayman Islands Directors Association
Alastair Loxton reviewing portfolio reports in the Artemis office

Common questions

Why Artemis

The questions we are asked about how we work, and the straight answers.

Artemis is not intended to be a rigid platform model. The service is tailored to each client's strategy, structure and requirements. Artemis is open to looking at complex or unusual engagements and determining if workable solutions exist.
Real Cayman presence means experienced, on-island involvement and no outsourcing of core functions. Clients and advisers should expect direct senior communication and responsive follow-up, rather than work being passed around a large service desk or outsourced team.
Governance-led means active board participation, oversight and decision-making support where those functions are part of the appointment. Artemis is not seeking passive appointments. The aim is to provide informed involvement, clear records and practical challenge where the structure requires it.
Artemis can operate across a flexible model, from light-touch oversight through to higher-touch management responsibility, depending on the structure and the agreed scope. The level of involvement should reflect what the client needs, what the relevant regulatory framework requires and what is commercially workable.
Artemis focuses on solutions designed to work in practice, not rigid frameworks. It can work with Cayman counsel, onshore counsel, administrators, auditors and other service providers where that coordination is in scope, but it should not be read as taking over every service-provider issue by default. The objective is to make the structure clear, workable and properly evidenced.
Artemis takes on engagements only where it has the expertise, time and ability to add value. Independence and capacity are not just compliance concepts; they affect whether a director, investment manager or oversight role is credible in practice. Artemis's model is senior-led, so clients and advisers should expect informed, direct involvement rather than a passive appointment.

Next step

Talk to a senior member of the team, not a call centre.

Every Artemis engagement starts with a direct conversation with Al or Hugh about what your structure actually needs.

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