Sasha Dickson

Investment Performance Specialist, Cambridge Researcher and Founder of Park Street

Sasha Dickson works at the intersection of investment management and performance science. Her work examines the psychological and behavioural factors that separate sustained outperformance from talented inconsistency in professional investors.

For the past few decades, finance has borrowed much of its performance psychology from arenas such as elite sport and military training. These ideas have contributed a great deal, but markets impose distinctive demands: continuous exposure with no natural breaks, noisy and often ambiguous feedback, and complex decision-making in real time with real capital at risk. Sasha is developing investment performance science as a discipline built around how professional investors actually think, decide and endure.

Through Park Street, she works with a small number of senior portfolio managers and investment professionals. Her work focuses on decision-making, cognitive and emotional management and developing mental disciplines that compound over a career, as well as team cultures that support these vital elements of investment performance.

Sasha’s perspective is grounded in direct market experience. She began her career as an analyst with Citibank in New York and London before moving into Asia Pacific equity sales with ING Barings, Macquarie Bank and Cazenove Asia in Hong Kong. Her career spans more than 25 years across financial markets and human development.

She is an International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach and is completing a Master of Studies in Coaching at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on performance psychology in investment professionals, with particular attention to emotion, self-regulation and decision-making in financial markets.

Based in Singapore, Sasha works with clients internationally and writes Finding Edge, a fortnightly publication exploring performance science built specifically for markets.