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Erik L. van Dijk
Founder & CEO at One4All Group
Dubai, United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 🇳🇱
International Man of Finance, Entrepreneur, and Strategist.
Erik L. van Dijk is the founder and principal of One4All Global, a UAE-based consultancy that reflects his extensive, multi-decade career in the international financial markets. With a robust quantitative background (he started his career as a professor of Finance) and a history of managing multi-billion dollar portfolios, Erik possesses a deep, practitioner's understanding of the global financial architecture. His expertise is not merely theoretical; it is forged from direct experience in asset management, proprietary trading, and the strategic leadership of financial enterprises (including a FinTech startup).
Before establishing One4All, Erik was a recognized figure in the European financial scene, known for his innovative approach to investment models and risk management; with a special focus on emerging markets, overreaction and neglect. His social-entrepreneurial drive led him to transition from the institutional world to creating a firm dedicated to empowering Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs).
As an author, Erik’s insights are direct, unfiltered, and pragmatic. He demystifies complex financial and strategic topics, from startup valuation to the nuances of global regulatory shifts. He is also the co-creator of the Markowitz-van Dijk asset allocation model (joint work with the late Nobel Prize Laureate dr Harry Markowitz). His current research interest is the incorporation of AI into the model, so as to better capture high-frequency, short-term qualitative information.
The Grandmaster and the Entrepreneur: Navigating Cognitive Overload and Systemic Failure
Introduction: The Unthinkable Blunder In the high-stakes arena of elite chess, perfection is the baseline expectation. Yet, during the recent Uzbek Cup, the chess world witnessed an astonishing anomaly. Nodirbek Abdusattorov, one of the brightest stars in the global chess firmament and a cornerstone of Uzbekistan’s rapid rise as a chess superpower, made a catastrophic one-move blunder. […]
The Middle Distance: Why Daily Chess is the Ultimate Tool for Learning, Leadership, and Connection
Caption: Daily Chess is the ‘Blitz’ of Correspondence Chess. And there are valid reasons why this makes sense. For all. Five minutes for the game is nerve-wrecking. Five days per move without possibility to save time not used earlier is of course slow. But when you play the whole tournament in one go, it is the kind of […]
Why Chess960 Is the True Test of Understanding — A Manifesto
For centuries, the starting position of chess has remained static. The result is a game that, at the highest levels, has become increasingly dominated by memorization. Grandmasters spend countless hours with silicon engines, memorizing opening lines 20 or 30 moves deep. The opening phase is no longer a test of creativity; it is a test of recall. Enter […]
Welcome to the Arena: What LSS Is, Why It Exists, and Who It’s For
When the Lechenicher Schachserver (LSS) was founded two decades ago, the goal was simple: to provide a reliable home where serious correspondence players could play serious games. Today, as we launch LSS Daily and step into a new era for the platform, that foundational mission remains. But the chess world around us has fundamentally changed. The rise of superhuman chess engines […]