Delivering the change
you want to see in the world
Time of Change
Family Office Management
In the last decade the world went through extraordinary events such as banking crisis, CRS regulations, new compliance criteria and new legal corporate rules, which are directly affecting your business and private life style
New Architecture of Wealth
Kometa 1618 introduces next generation long-term solutions
Mission Statement
Our purpose is to help high net worth families, private individuals and institutions to preserve, grow and pass on their assets over time.
Founded in 2009, we have served our clients to grow stronger through financial and regulatory changes.
Our interests are wholly aligned with our clients - our main activity is to protect and enrich them. We focus on providing our clients with fresh investment perspectives and long-term financial growth.
A highly professional team
Boasting asset management expertise and longstanding experience and cooperation with major European and International banks, help investor clients seek capital protection and constant capital growth according to their portfolio and performance goals.
The support offered by Kometa1618 is all-encompassing: bank accounts, mutual funds and investment portfolio management, private label funds and trusts, financial and fiscal advice, tax planning, family succession.
Ives Caracuzzi
Founder and Managing Partner
Ives Caracuzzi is a managing partner of Kometa. Born in Sydney and raised in Italy and Uk.
He has over 25 years of private banking experience globally in international banks. Banque Indosuez , EFG Bank and Julius Baer are the most prestigious banks where he build his financial history.
With Banca Leonardo he was Model Manager of institutional business development and portfolio Manager of customized mandates for Ultra High Net Worth Individuals (UHNWI).
Contact E-mail: ives@kometa1618.comFrangos Nikos
Member of the board
Nikos is a greek lawyer graduated at the Siena University in Italy and at Master Business Strategy and Management at Il Sole 24 ORE Business School in Milan as post-graduate education. He is an insurance and wealth management advisor with 16 years of experience. He has been working in several Assets Management companies such as Montepaschi Asset Management SGR and ANIMA SGR, and has been a partner in several wealth management firms and insurance intermediator companies in Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Malta. During several years of his professional activities, he primarily focused on the Greek market offering to the local clients the possibility to have access to the most advanced technical solutions in the financial and insurance market. In addition to be both Italian and Greek language native speaker, he is fluent in English and French.
Contact E-mail: nikos@kometa1618.comFiori Fabrizio
Member of the board
Fabrizio is an Italian lawyer graduated in University of Bologna and University of London for his post-graduate education. He has been an assistant professor at several Italian universities and visiting professor at the Istud Foundation, the most prestigious business school in Italy. He has worked and has been a partner in several important law firms since 1995 in Italy, USA and Cina. Among them, one of the most notorious was Studio Bernini & Partners, a world-famous boutique firm lead by Prof. Giorgio Bernini, an almost legendary figure of International Commercial law and arbitration of whom Fabrizio Fiori was one the pupils and close associate. Since 2011 he is a partner at De Capoa & partners law firm, an international firm based in Italy with its own branch offices in six countries between East Europe and the Middle East and a member of the EGLA. As a partner of De Capoa, he was in charge of the China Desk for four years and currently managed the offices in Ukraine and East Europe Desk. He is a lawyer with an eclectic talent and expertise in international commercial and corporate law, and unique mastery in international contracts.
Contact E-mail: fabrizio@kometa1618.com