Michael Petley
Chief Investment Officer
Chairman of the Global Macro Team
Michael Petley is ECU's Chief Investment Officer and Chairman of its Global Macro Advisory Board. Michael founded ECU in 1988 and pioneered the company's flagship $1.8bn multi-currency debt management programme. He has over 30 years of experience in managing FX mandates, presiding over the successful management of all ECU's core currency products for three decades.
Michael is a leading commentator on European Monetary Union and sat on the Advisory Council for Business for Britain along with key City and UK industry leaders. In 2014, Michael was commissioned to spearhead an independent economic team (that included former senior economic advisers to two Chancellors of the Exchequer and the International Monetary Fund and a former Chief Economist and founding Monetary Policy Committee member at the Bank of England) that provided the economic inputs for the authoritative report "Change, or go” (published in 2015 prior to the EU Referendum), which detailed comprehensively why and how the EU needed to change and how Britain would ultimately be constitutionally and economically better off, more fiscally balanced and more structurally positioned to prosper outside an unreformed EU.
Stephen Jen
Global Macro Team
Global Macro & Currency Strategy Investment Adviser
Stephen Jen is CEO and co-CIO of Eurizon SLJ Capital and a long-standing and independent member of ECU’s Global Macro Advisory Board.
Stephen’s previous roles include MD of Macroeconomics & Currencies at Bluegold Capital and an MD at Morgan Stanley where he worked for 12 years, latterly as Global Head of Currency Research.
After attaining his PhD in Economics from the MIT, Stephen spent four years as an economist with the IMF.
Fatih Yilmaz
Global Macro Team
Global Macro & Currency Strategy Investment Adviser
Fatih Yilmaz is co-CIO of Eurizon SLJ Capital, specialising in quantitative research and modelling and a long-standing and independent member of ECU’s Global Macro Advisory Board.
After his MA and PhD studies in Finance and Econometrics, Fatih was Assistant Professor of Finance at Exeter.
Previous roles include Currency Economist at Morgan Stanley, Chief European Currency Strategist and Head of Institutional Quant at Bank of America and Director of Quantitative Research and Trading at Bluegold Capital.
Robin Griffiths
Global Macro Team
Chief Technical Strategist
Neil Staines
Global Macro Team
Strategic Currency Advisor
Neil Staines is a Senior Portfolio Manager at Eurizon SLJ Capital.
Previously, Neil was Head of Trading and Execution at ECU, prior to which he was co-founder & Head of Investment at 3D Currency Management.
Previously, Neil worked at RBS Global Banking & Markets, latterly as Head of FX Proprietary Trading.
George Magnus
Global Macro Team
Senior Economic Adviser
George Magnus is a long standing and independent member of ECU's Global Macro Team, specialising in global macroeconomic trends and the global financial system.
Neil MacKinnon
Global Macro Team
Global Macro Strategy Adviser
Neil MacKinnon is a long-standing and independent member of ECU’s Global Macro Team and Global Macro Strategist at VTB Capital, having been ECU’s Chief Currency Strategist for six years.
Kit Juckes
Global Macro Team
Senior FX & Fixed Income Adviser
Kit Juckes is a long-standing and independent member of ECU's Global Macro Team and Head of FX Strategy at Société Générale.
Simon Hunt
Global Macro Team
Strategic Adviser - China & Commodities
Simon is a long-standing and independent member of ECU's Global Macro Team, specialising in China and some of the major industrial commodity markets, notably copper.
Andrew Rozanov
Global Macro Team
Economic Adviser - Japan
Andrew Rozanov is a member of ECU’s Global Macro Advisory Team and an associate fellow (International Economics) at Chatham House, specialising in Japanese economic policy.
Formerly managing director and head of institutional advisory at Permal Group, responsible for advising sovereign wealth funds and other long-term institutional investors, prior to which he was MD and head of sovereign advisory at State Street.
Andrew is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a Financial Risk Manager (FRM), and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), and holds a master's equivalent degree in Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University.
Rashpal Sohan
Senior Macro & Quantitative Strategist