The Cambridge Strategy appoints MD
Wednesday, 19 November 2008 12:40pm
Active currency risk manager The Cambridge Strategy has appointed Bob Colehan as managing director-portfolio management.
Colehan will be responsible for G10 currencies. The Cambridge Strategy said this appointment acknowledges the critical importance of these currencies in the Australian and Asian markets to a diversified client base that includes superannuation funds.
Before joining The Cambridge Strategy, Colehan worked for UBS O'Connor's Currency and Rates hedge fund from 1999. As portfolio manager, he traded G14 and emerging markets foreign exchange and interest rate products.
Between 1994 and 1999, Colehan worked for HSBC Futures as a senior sales director; with the last years in their New York office spent expanding the North America operation. He was one of the key executives in terms of revenue and the sourcing and development of new top-tier business.
From 1989 to 1994, Bob worked at First Chicago Futures as a senior sales person and London desk manager.
He started in the financial markets in 1985 with Brown Shipley Merchant Bank and subsequently moved to Butler Harlow Futures.
Bob has a BA (hons) in economics from the City of London Polytechnic, graduating in 1983.
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