Mr Greg Smith | Group CEO
Global Commodities

Mr. Greg Smith is the Managing Director of Global Commodities Limited and has over 25 years' experience in the commodity futures industry. After completing a trade certificate in 1980, he travelled to London where he was an accounts clerk at the International Commodities Clearing House. He returned to Australia in 1984 to gain a finance certificate with FINSIA and studied systematic investment techniques. From 1986 through to 1990, Greg was a commodity broker with Bain & Co which subsequently became a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank in the late 1980s. He advised clients on various speculative and hedging strategies that could be employed in the commodity futures and options markets using statistically based models. As trading manager, he was responsible for developing strategies for both hedgers and speculators. In 1990, Greg founded IEM Global Trading Pty Limited (IEM) which managed investment portfolios in commodity markets for US, European and Asian investors using computer generated models. He was responsible for developing investment strategies, software design and compliance. IEM was the first registered Commodity Trading Adviser with the Sydney Futures Exchange. For IEM to manage US investment capital it was also required to be registered with the US National Futures Association and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and was one of the first Australians to do so. In 2004, Greg established Global Commodities Limited, which is registered with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission and applies an active risk management overlay within a commodity index framework. Global Commodities Singapore Pte Ltd was established in 2011. The Global Commodities group manages funds for sophisticated investors from Asia, Europe, UK and Australia exclusively in commodities. Though based in Australia, Greg regularly attends global conferences presenting on the major factors influencing commodities, along with interviews at Bloomberg, CNN and CNBC.