Robin G Brown

Robin was a founder member of the London Inter-bank Currency Options Market and sat on the BBA/Bank of England ICOM Committee and has developed an international reputation as a leading edge trainer specialising in areas such as Derivatives and Capital Markets, Risk Management and Treasury Products.

Robin has held various positions in Treasury, FX, Fixed Income and Equity Investment Departments at numerous financial institutions, including Head of Private Client Investment Desk for a major Middle Eastern Bank. Here he had responsibility for advising the bank’s high
net worth clients on asset allocation, stock and bonds selection. He also ran the team that managed order execution for equities and fixed income products in Europe, the Far East and North America.

Since 1986 he has been involved in the delivery of a number of training programmes on Asset and Liability Management, Capital Markets, Risk Management and Value at Risk, Credit Derivatives and Financial Market Products. Programmes have been delivered in Europe, North America and South East Asia for major investment and commercial banks.

Robin has written a number of computer software applications for use in the financial markets, specifically programmes designed to price and analyse risk in fixed income, equity and option products. Recently Robin launched a market simulation system called Market Master™ which simulates trading and risk management across a broad range of products including FX, Equities and Bonds in the cash and futures and options markets.
Robin is an active trader in the Equities, FX and Fixed Income Markets for his own account and brings to this course 20-year of trading and risk management experience plus up to date trading and hedging ideas and examples.

Robin is chief examiner for The SII Bonds and Fixed Interest Examination.

Robin has been commissioned to write books, The UK Gilt Market and An Introduction to the Equity Markets, which are scheduled to be published in autumn 2009 and spring 2010.

DAVID WAITE

David is a retired Banker. He commenced working in the City of London in August 1965 joining the Trust & Probate Department of a large Solicitors  Practice. His City his career has always been confined to the financial sector working for an Investment Trust House, Stock Brokers, Commodity Brokers, Merchant Bank and lastly a well know Irish Bank from where he retired in November 2008.

Between 1975 and 1986 David was employed by Woodhouse Drake & Carey Ltd, a two hundred year old commodity company where he developed the Treasury area from a service into a profit centre. He managed the Group’s worldwide banking relationships and as a Director of a subsidiary company brought together the foreign exchange and financial futures arms. He was also a member of the team that negotiated a joint venture with a Chicago based financial futures operation.

From 1987 to 1988 David was employed as a Senior Trader at British Petroleum where he traded Spot and Forward Foreign Exchange as well as currency options with the aid of technical analysis.

In 1988 David joined the merchant bank Guinness Mahon & Co Ltd where he was promoted to Assistant Director managing a team of foreign exchange and corporate sales personnel. He instigated strategic position taking and increased the number of currencies traded by the Bank to over thirty, many being from emerging markets. He implemented a countrywide marketing strategy that developed a diversified customer base that traded foreign exchange, currency options and off-balance sheet instruments. He left Guinness Mahon in 1997 shortly before they were taken over by Investec.

David joined as a Manager in the Corporate Sales team of Anglo Irish Bank in 1997 where he remained until his retirement in 2008. The primary function in this very successful part of his career was to develop foreign exchange and deposit relationships with a diversified customer base which entailed identifying company exposure and the suggesting of strategies to enhance security and profitability. 

John E Dowsett

Career Overview

John is a vastly experienced and senior figure in the capital markets industry. He has over 35 years of consulting, sales, trading and operations experience with some of the most prestigious organizations in the market. With the addition of his prominent committee posts and market group memberships. John has become and industry authority,

He joined as a director of  Perot Systems in 1997, where was responsible for high level client relationships, business education and thought leadership. Before Perot he worked as a senior consultant for Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, subsequent to their acquisition of his firm Luthy Ballie Dowsett Pethick and co Limited.

Prior to setting up his own firm in 1990, he was an executive director of Goldman Sachs International where he managed securities financing and operations. During his 7 years tenure he had reporting responsibility to partners in charge of fixed income, equity sales and trading, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions as well as the operations division.

John has worked at Salomon Brothers International where he traded Eurobonds, headed  securities operations and led Bank and financing relationships.

Industry Activities

. Board member International Securities Market Associatiosn (now ICMA) 1990 to 1998

. Chairman and deputy chairman of ISMA market practices committee (1984 to 1998)

. Member of ISMA arbitration and conciliation panels, successfully conciliated at least 7 trade disputes (1986 to 1998) 

. Chairman of ISMA sponsored International working group which successfully introduced the reduction of International settlement to T+ 3

. Member of the Bank of England working group chaired by the deputy Governor on the impact of the Euro on the equity and fixed income markets on London as a financial centre.

. Member of the London stock exchange International equity market committee, chairman of the systems and settlement sub-committee.

. Keynote speaker at both trading and operational seminars for the last 20 years specialising in the maximising of profit and the minimsing of risk in the securities market

. Keynote speaker at such forums as the Financial Times conferences and ISMA AGM’s  with topics as diverse as identifying and managing risk within the securities industry to the impact of the EURO on securities markets.

Haidje Rüstau

Haidje has over ten years of financial markets experience.  
She began her career as an analyst at a major international rating agency, and then moved to Barclays Capital where she worked as an analyst on the convertible bond desk. Most recently Haidje was an analyst at a London-based hedge fund, where she was responsible for monitoring the credit risk of the fund's portfolio. She worked closely with the Head of European and Asian trading on trade ideas in EMEA and Asia. At both Barclays and the hedge fund, she developed both credit based trades as well as volatility driven strategies. Haidje is a CFA charter holder.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Languages: Mother tongue German, fluent English, conversational Chinese and French, basic Russian
Professional Qualifications: CFA (since 2001), SFA registered