Michael Petley
Chief Investment Officer
Chairman of the Global Macro Team

Michael Petley is ECU's Chief Investment Officer, Chairman of its Global Macro Team and one of the three investment advisers to ECU's Institutional Global Macro and Active FX Overlay Strategies. Michael founded ECU in 1988 and pioneered the company's flagship $1.8bn multi-currency debt management programme.

He has over 25 years of experience in managing FX mandates, presiding over the successful management of all ECU's core currency products for 19 years. Michael sits on the Advisory Council for Business for Britain and is a leading commentator on European Monetary Union.

Stephen Jen
Global Macro Team
Global Macro & Currency Strategy Investment Adviser

Stephen Jen is managing partner of SLJ Macro Partners LLP, a member of ECU’s Global Macro Advisory team and one of the three investment advisers to ECU's Institutional Global Macro and Active FX Overlay Strategies, specialising in global macroeconomic policy.

From 2009 to 2011,Stephen was MD of Macroeconomics & Currencies at Bluegold Capital. Previously, Stephen was with Morgan Stanley 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 a founding partner of SLJ Macro Partners LLP, a member of ECU’s Global Macro Advisory team and one of the three investment advisers to ECU's Institutional Global Macro and Active FX Overlay Strategies, specialising in quantitative research and modelling.

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

Robin Griffiths is Chief Technical Strategist at ECU, a role he previously performed at HSBC Investment Bank for 20 years before becoming Head of Global Asset Allocation at Rathbones, and then a director and technical strategist for Cazenove Capital Management.

Robin was a Partner of WI Carr and Head of Technical Analysis at Grieveson Grant. Robin is a committee member and former chairman of the international Federation of Technical Analysts, and former chairman, now fellow, of the British Society of Technical Analysts. Robin has been a member of ECU's Global Macro Team for over 20 years

Neil Staines
Global Macro Team
Head of Trading and Execution

Neil Staines is ECU's Head of Trading and Execution. He was formerly co-founder & Head of Investment at 3D Currency Management. Previously, Neil worked at RBS Global Banking & Markets, latterly as Head of FX Proprietary Trading.

Neil and his team are responsible for the monitoring, execution and risk management of all ECU's trading programmes and strategies.

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.

George is Senior Economic Adviser at UBS Investment Bank, where he was previously Chief Economist for seven years. His former roles include Chief International Economist at UBS and Head of Fixed Income Research and Chief Economist at S.G.Warburg.

George is author of two highly acclaimed economic books: "The Age of Ageing" and "Uprising: will emerging markets shape or shake the world economy?"

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.

Previous roles include Chief Currency Strategist at both Citibank and Merrill Lynch. From 1982 to 1986, Neil was an economist with HM Treasury, where he worked for the Chancellor of the Exchequer and other UK Treasury ministers.

Neil sits on the Advisory Council of Business for Britain.

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.

Kit has over 25 years’ experience having commenced his career in 1985 with Money Market Services International (which became part of Standard & Poor’s).

His former roles include Chief Economist at ECU, Global Head of Research at RBS Global Banking & Markets and Head of Bond and FX Strategy at NatWest Markets.

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.

In 1975, Simon Hunt founded Brook Hunt, a market leading provider of market analysis across the metals and mining markets (now part of Wood Mackenzie). In 1996, Simon left Brook Hunt to form Simon Hunt Strategic Services which provides global economic research services.

Simon has spent 2-3 months a year for the past 20 years visiting factories across China and has an office in Beijing.

Rashpal Sohan is Senior Macro & Quantitative Strategist at ECU, specialising in building fundamental and technical quantitative modes for use in global tactical asset allocation. He has a decade of experience in Asset Allocation, having previously served as Senior Asset Allocation Analyst for one of the UK's largest discretionary investment management firms, Rathbone Brothers.

Rashpal holds a first class honors degree in Actuarial Science from the London School of Economics, and is a qualified Financial Risk Management (FRM) professional.