Victoria Matthews

Spear’s Review

‘For our family office clients, the average investable assets is around about $750 million. It’s very much institutional-size capital, and with that, they’re looking for institutional-quality solutions,’ Victoria Matthews, BlackRock managing director and head of UK family offices, tells Spear’s.

‘Most of our family office and endowment clients are looking at multigenerational time horizons. And with that, they see much more opportunity across private markets.’ 

For Matthews, it’s BlackRock’s broad offering that serves as a market differentiator, as well as its experience in connecting UHNWs to private market opportunities. This includes ‘alternative alternatives’ – novel opportunities for investment across emerging asset classes such as music royalties and litigation financing. ‘There are very few players that have the scale of resources to be able to do all of that,’ she says.

Adviser Profile

Victoria Matthews, Managing Director, leads the UK Family Offices, Endowments & Foundation business at BlackRock. She manages the firm’s relationships with some of the largest single and multi-family offices, as well as strategic endowments and foundations.  

She is responsible for delivering institutional solutions across equity, fixed income and alternative asset classes to help her clients achieve their unique investment objectives. She works directly with the firm’s active equity, fixed income and alternatives investment managers from around the world, together with the expansive iShares team, to provide customised strategies across both public and private asset classes for her clients.   

Prior to joining BlackRock, Victoria spent 10 years in hedge funds, where she was responsible for global business development at Boldhaven Management LLP (a European focused equity long/short hedge fund) and New Peak Capital Partners LLP (a European Event Driven hedge fund). She was responsible for cultivating relationships with existing and prospective institutional investors, effectively communicating the fund’s value proposition and driving asset growth.   

She started her career at Morgan Stanley, where she spent 10 years in Pan-European Equity Sales, responsible for the distribution of research and investment ideas to some of the largest hedge funds in London and Switzerland. 

She is an active mentor for GAIN (Girls Are Investors) which is a gender diversity charity, providing career support to young women and non-binary students to begin their investment management careers.