Global Equities 2008: Speakers

Global Equities 2008
30 Pavilion Road, London SW1, 26 June 2008

Robin Griffiths - Director, Cazenove Capital Management
Robin Griffiths joined Cazenove Capital Management in early 2008, prior to which he was head of asset allocation and technical research at private wealth management company, Rathbones, in London. Robin was previously with HSBC Investment Bank and is one of the global financial markets best known and most respected technical analysts.

Sandy Jadeja - Head of Technical Research, ODL Securities
Sandy Jadeja is chief market strategist at ODL Securities in London. As well as providing technical client research on the major global stock markets, Sandy has also written for the London Stock Exchange, FT and Daily Telegraph and presents weekly research on CNBC’s Closing Bell programme. He also gives regular client seminars on trading strategies and risk management using technical analysis.

Max Knudsen - Research Director, PIA-FIRST
Max Knudsen is managing director of PIA–FIRST, a technical research firm. As well as being the top interest rate options salesman at UBS in the mid 1990’s, Max has been head of Fixed Income Technical Analysis at UBS and Head of cross market Technical Analysis at Dresdner Kleinwort. Since 2002, PIA, Max’s proprietary sentiment analysis service has won 8 industry awards from Euromoney and Thomson Financial. Max and his partners now provide independent trading strategies in FX, Equities, and Interest Rates on daily, weekly, and quarterly time horizons.

Antonio Manzini - Investment Solutions EMEA, UBS Asset Management
Antonio Manzini is senior project manager in investment solutions at UBS Asset Management in Zurich. Having spent some time as a visiting scholar at Stanford University in the US, Antonio began his career as a senior economist with Swiss Bank in the early 1990’s. He now focuses on providing quantitative investment solutions to EMEA region clients.

Charles Morris - Head of Absolute Return, HSBC Global Asset Management
Charles Morris is a director of HSBC Global Asset Management in London where he is the head of absolute return strategy and fund manager of the HSBC Global Trend Fund. Charlie regularly appears on CNBC and Bloomberg TV to discuss technical analysis and advises HSBC Investments on asset allocation, sector strategy and stock selection.

Laurens Swinkels - Senior Researcher, Quantitative Strategies, Robeco
Laurens Swinkels, PhD, is senior researcher at Robeco Quantitative Strategies specialized in asset allocation and stock selection. He advises institutional clients on investment portfolios tailored to new financial regulations. Prior to joining Robeco in 2004, he was Quantitative Analyst at Pension Factory and ABP Investments. Dr Swinkels is also assistant professor of Finance at Erasmus University Rotterdam and member of the board of Pensioenfonds Robeco.

Marco Dion - Equity Quant Research, JPMorgan Chase
Marco Dion is European Head of Equity Quant Research for JP Morgan. Marco previously worked at Madoff Securities, where he was a senior trader responsible for managing the company's proprietary long/short equity book according to quantitative/systematic models. Prior to that, Marco worked in a similar role at Mako Global, trading derivatives quantitatively in Europe and Asia. Marco holds a BSc in Finance from HEC Brussels.

Ryan Kloster - Analyst, Tudor Investments
Ryan Kloster, CFA, CAIA, joined Tudor in May of this year in the Flow of Funds Research and Trading group. Ryan was previously a Director and Equity Strategist at Lehman Brothers, where he worked on European and Global macro strategy with a specialisation in Flow of Funds analysis while lending support to the team's quantitative strategy product. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Ryan worked at Global Insight as a US macroeconomic data specialist.

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