FX Investment World 2011 - Speaker list

Mr. Baker is currently Executive Chairman of The Cambridge Strategy, a London based investment management group, and serves on their board of directors. He was the Chief Investment Officer of Emerging Markets Growth Equities at AllianceBernstein in London until April...

Founder, Cedar Partners, an investment advisory group specialising in absolute return investment strategies. Cedar Partners has a particular speciality in global macro investing with a focus on short-term systematic foreign exchange trading. Cedar Partners has built...

Leonardo is the founding partner of Palaedino Group. He is the Chairman and the CIO of Palaedino Asset Management. He has over 20 years' experience in the financial industry where he has been active since 1986. His field of expertise ranges from investment and private ...

"Claes-Henrik Claesson is Managing Director at Claesson Capital Introduction. Claes-Henrik has over ten years of experience from business strategy and business development tasks working for the Swedish bank SEB. His last position at SEB was as Head of FX Prime...

Enke Enkhjargal Danzanbaijir is the Chief Representative, London Office for Bank of Mongolia

David Denison is Head of Foreign Exchange Strategies for AHL. Dr Denison joined AHL in 2008 as a research analyst developing trading strategies across a variety of sectors. Prior to joining AHL he worked for two London based hedge funds implementing statistical...

Hélie has 24 years’ experience in currency management. Before setting up Overlay Asset Management in 1998, Hélie was the manager of a currency fund (Rosebud) for a period of two years. His previous assignments include five years at PSA International, within the...

Rudyard EKINDI is a civil engineer from Ecole des Mines de St-Etienne in France. He also studied actuarials at ISFA in Lyon. Rudyard started his career in 1996 as an actuary consultant, then spent two years as a senior consultant for KPMG – Strategic Risk...

Monica Fan, Managing Director, Head of Business Development Monica is head of business development at Millennium Global with responsibility for new business acquisition and relationships with clients and asset consultants. Prior to joining Millennium Global...

Patrick is head of Trading & Execution and a member of the Allocation Committee. Amongst the daily responsibilities there is managing a desk of traders within public markets and running a discretionary & opportunistic mandate across assets, next to the FX risk of the...

John is a well known commentator and advisor on Hedge Fund investing. He is currently CEO and founder of the IGS Group Ltd. which specialises in providing advice on product design and Portfolio Construction, market positioning and distribution for Hedge Funds, Fund...

ROBIN GRIFFITHS joined Cazenove Capital in 2008 as Technical Strategist providing strategic input and marketing support, primarily to Private Wealth Management. For over 30 years Robin Griffiths has been one of the most respected technical analysts of world stock...

Markus Hill (MSc in Economics) is an independent asset management consultant based in Frankfurt, Germany. His professional experience includes SEB Bank and Credit Suisse Asset Management. In addition, he did work as head of sales and PR for a German fund...

Alexandra is in charge of the London Structuring and Quantitative Research team within the Crédit Agricole’s FX product line. She has 15 years experience in Structuring and Quantitative Research, covering FX, Fixed Income and Equity markets Alexandra is responsible...

Dominik Irniger is Head of Quantitative Portfolio Management at the Asset Management division of Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB), a major Swiss bank with a strong local presence in wealth management, investment banking and asset management. His team manages FX and GTAA...

Dr. Jessica James is a Managing Director and Global Head of Quantitative Investor Solutions. The group informs clients on FX investment strategies, with a strong focus on systematic alpha model development. Jessica has been at the forefront of developing currency risk ...

Stephen Jen is Managing Director of Macroeconomics and Currencies at BlueGold Capital, in charge of managing the Fund’s currency exposures as well as macro strategies. Prior to joining BlueGold Capital in May 2009, Stephen was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley...

Kit Juckes joins from ECU Group, a London based currency management boutique where he was the Chief Economist. Prior to this, Kit worked at RBS Global Banking & Markets as Global Head of Research from July 2007 to July 2009 and previously as Head of Credit Research...

Background Pierre joined the investment industry in 1987 and Aviva Investors in 2010 Experience Pierre joins Aviva Investors from Fortis Investments (ABN Amro Asset Management Legacy business) where he was CIO currencies over a 10 year period. Pierre began his...

Alessandro is the CEO of Palaedino Asset Management. He has over 20 years' experience in the financial industry. His field of expertise ranges from private and investment banking to fund management. Alessandro was formerly CEO of Capital Management Advisors SA...

Ryan joined AXA Investment Managers as a Senior Strategist. Prior to AXA IM, he worked for four years as the Head of Research for Unifortune’s multi-year, award-winning fund-of-funds group. Before that, he was a trader at Swiss Re Capital Markets. Prior to that he was ...

Diane Miller is a Principal at Mercer. She is a member of Mercer’s Alternatives Boutique, a unit within Mercer's investment consulting business, and is lead researcher for active currency. Her responsibilities also include researching strategies from other product...

Richard joined Peak Partners in 2011 to establish a pro active FX group of funds to utilise various risk parameters to produce high performance, using his own proprietary technical model combined with fundamental analysis. Richard has 33 years of financial market...

Alain Nkontchou (46) has 19 years experience intensively trading global fixed income, currencies, commodities and stock indices. Current: Managing Partner Enko Capital Management LLp. He was previously a Managing Director for Global Macro Trading within the...

Saker Nusseibeh joined Hermes in June 2009 as a main board director and Head of Investment to drive, support and represent the investment capabilities of Hermes. He is responsible for ensuring that all of the Hermes investment capabilities can and do deliver investment ...

Geoff has a degree in Economics (Bsc) from the University of Leicester and started his career with the London Borough of Bromley as a trainee accountant. Upon qualifying with CIPFA he joined Bedfordshire County Council as a management accountant. He undertook a range...

Jacob is a supporter of the concept of ETFs being used to create alpha. His 16 years of experience within the financial markets has provided him with a wealth of experience that he will be bringing to the event. Jacob is a regular guest on financial news programs...

Peter completed his PhD in theoretical physics in 1998 and then started his business career at Sal. Oppenheim in Frankfurt as a developer for trading models. Since 1999, he built up and led the derivatives research group in the Investment Banking division until 2009. ...

Christian Schwerdtner is Managing Partner of NewtonMercury Advisors. Before founding NewtonMercury Advisors in 2010 he served as Senior Portfolio Manager FX Strategies at First Private Investment Management, a quantitative asset management boutique in Frankfurt. Prior...

Dr Bob Swarup oversees alternative investments and the thought leadership programme at Pension Corporation. He holds a PhD in Cosmology from Imperial College London, two Masters degrees from the University of London and an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of...

Dr Hardeep Tamana, has worked in the Financial Services sector since 1994 in various Institutional Banking roles and later stockbroking. Hardeep has developed and executed brand and business strategy to build Fyshe Horton Finney Ltd from a respected regional...

In 1981, John Taylor founded FX Concepts, Inc., a multi-faceted investment management company, which today manages $11.7 billion in assets. Over 95% of those assets are managed in a series of absolute return strategies with the remainder in currency overlays. The...

John Velis is head of capital markets research*Europe for Russell Investments. John coordinates Russell’s capital markets research for the EMEA region. John also serves as the EMEA region’s member of Russell’s investment strategy team that formulates and articulates...

Professor Richard A. Werner, D.Phil. (Oxon), B.Sc. (Economics, LSE) is Chair in International Banking at the University of Southampton, UK and Director of its Centre for Banking, Finance and Sustainable Development. He is currently also visiting Professor of Monetary...

James Wood-Collins joined Record in August 2008, and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in October 2010. He joined Record from JPMorgan Cazenove, where he had been a Managing Director advising financial institutions on M&A, IPOs and related corporate finance...

Christopher Wyke, EMD, Currencies & Commodities Product Manager (London) - MA (Economics & Politics) from University of Edinburgh and Kennedy Fellow in Economics from Harvard University - Investment career commenced in 1981 when he joined Rothschild ...

Igor Yelnik is co-head of the Global Macro team and is responsible for the company's GDRA, GTAA, currency and FX/rates strategies. As portfolio manager, he is responsible for day-to-day implementation and is also instrumental in the on-going research and development of ...

Fatih Yilmaz is currently Director of Quantitative Research at BlueGold Capital Management and his primary role is to develop trading models for commodity and FX markets. Previously, he was Managing Director and Head of Quantitative Strategies within Global FICC...