Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding.

Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions.

If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound.

My wealth came from growing businesses. I had wealth, but not liquidity. Basically I transferred illiquid shares of AIC for liquid shares of Manulife. Now I'm the biggest individual shareholder of Manulife.

Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding.

I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.