Ardella Korrin
Current: Senior Financial Adviser / Investment Manager, Absolutaris Base Limited
Nationality: United Kingdom
Born: 1995, Guildford, Surrey
Family Background and Early Life
Ardella was born in Guildford, Surrey, to a middle‑class family that valued education and integrity. Her father worked in finance at the local building society, and her mother was a secondary school English teacher. The family environment gave her an early grounding in budgeting, saving, and risk management, and nurtured her attention to detail, patience, and collaborative mindset.
Education
2007–2013: Completed secondary education in Guildford, with a strong focus on math and economics; active member of the school investment society.
2013–2017: University of Portsmouth, BSc in Finance and Economics, with coursework in corporate finance, investments, econometrics, and accounting fundamentals. During the summer of her junior year, she interned at a small independent financial advisory firm in Hampshire, getting her first hands‑on exposure to client portfolio management, which helped solidify her career path.
Career Highlights
2017–2019 | Harborfield Investment Advisers (Portsmouth) | Investment Analyst
Handled data processing, style‑factor tracking, and product comparisons; contributed to fixed income and multi‑asset research; built quantitative dashboards and risk metric sheets.
2019–2021 | Northbridge Wealth Management (Reading) | Financial Adviser
Advised families and SMB clients on asset allocation and risk assessments; supported portfolio management and established standardized communication workflows with Compliance and Operations.
2021–Present | Absolutaris Base Limited (London) | Senior Financial Adviser / Investment Manager
Leads and contributes to multi‑asset strategy research (equities, bonds, commodities, and derivatives); drives the digitization of the research process and standardization of risk controls (e.g., VaR, max drawdown, liquidity monitoring); continually enhances portfolio risk‑return profiles across market cycles.
Current Responsibilities and Methodology
She primarily serves HNW individuals and growth‑stage corporate clients, focusing on wealth and retirement planning, asset allocation, and risk management. Her closed‑loop process—Signal → Positioning → Execution → Review—integrates statistical/econometric analysis with fundamental judgments, emphasizes out‑of‑sample validation and robustness checks, and communicates strategy rationale and performance attribution to clients and the investment committee through clear visuals and concise takeaways.
Professional Approach and Investment Philosophy
Data‑driven: Grounded in statistics and econometrics, integrating fundamentals and macro variables; prioritizes out‑of‑sample validation.
Risk first: Sets multidimensional risk limits (VaR/ES/drawdown/liquidity), layers management across high‑ and low‑frequency strategies, and applies dual‑threshold alerts pre‑ and post‑trade.
Explainability over opacity: Prefers low‑parameter, interpretable models and avoids over‑reliance on black boxes; conducts stress tests under realistic transaction costs and liquidity constraints.
Compliance and transparency: Maintains full audit trails across processes for review and oversight, with frequent coordination with Compliance and Operations.
Interests and Community Engagement
In her spare time, she enjoys distance running and hiking to maintain fitness and focus, and she reads widely in finance and psychology. She often takes short hikes in the Surrey Hills or visits local village markets, and she volunteers in community financial‑literacy talks to promote rational investing and a long‑term mindset.