FX Specialist Gives Family Offices, Institutional Clients Access To Expert Panel

Tom Burroughes

13 June 2013

The ECU Group, a currency management firm headquartered in the UK, has launched what it calls its Global Macro Advisory Service, which gives clients such as family offices access to its committee of financial sector luminaries.

Chaired by ECU’s chief investment officer, Michael Petley, the committee is made up of six independent members from fields such as economics, monetary policy, technical analysis and international politics.

The independent members are Robin Griffiths; Professor Charles Goodhart; Simon Hunt; Stephen Jen, Kit Juckes and George Magnus.

Magnus is senior economic advisor at UBS Investment Bank. Professor Goodhart worked at the Bank of England for 17 years as a monetary advisor, becoming chief advisor in 1980, and is a former member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee. He is now Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance at the London School of Economics and a senior economic consultant for Morgan Stanley.

Jen is managing partner of SLJ Macro, where he and his team are responsible for fulfilling ECU’s Active FX Overlay capability. From 2009 to 2011, Jen was managing director of macroeconomics and currencies at Bluegold Capital.

Griffiths is chief technical strategist at Cazenove Capital, a role he previously performed at HSBC Securities for 20 years before becoming head of global asset allocation at Rathbone Brothers.

Juckes is head of foreign exchange strategy at Société Générale. He has over 25 years’ experience in financial services, having commenced his career in 1985 with Money Market Services.

Simon Hunt specialises in China and some of the major commodity markets, notably copper.