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 David Karsbøl, Chief Economist and member of Senior Management Group
David Karsbøl is the head of Saxo Bank Strategy & Research and is responsible for the overall macroeconomic views of Saxo Bank. David concentrates on Business Cycle Analysis and subscribes to the reasoning of the so-called Austrian School of Economics (Menger, Schumpeter, von Mises, von Hayek etc.). He believes that understanding debt cycles is integral to understanding the general business cycle. David is one of the bank's most visible strategists and is a frequently quoted commentator on macroeconomic issues in the financial media and is known for his contrarian thoughts.
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John J. Hardy FX specialist, Consultant
John is Consulting FX Strategist for Saxo Bank. John has developed a broad following from his popular and often quoted daily Forex Market Update column, received by Saxo Bank clients and partners, the press and sales traders. John is a regular guest and commentator on television, including CNBC and Bloomberg. He also writes regular ad-hoc commentary focusing on the major currencies, Central Bank policies, macro-economic trends and other developments and is one of the authors of the Saxo Bank Quarterly Outlooks and the Outrageous Claims reports. John was named as one of the most influential people in Forex in 2008 and regularly tops the FX Week one-month and 12-month currrency forecast index.
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Christian Tegllund Blaabjerg, Equity strategist and analytical expert
Christian Tegllund Blaabjerg is Equity Strategist at Saxo Bank. Christian works with equity market and single stock analysis using a top-down approach. He identifies macro forces that could affect the investment environment before they become obvious, and then focuses on individual issues within sectors and single stocks to determine how they will be affected, whether they can capitalize on them, and if the stocks are attractively priced. Before joining Saxo Bank, Christian worked as a quantative analyst for Novozymes. Christian appears regularly on major financial networks including CNBC and Bloomberg and in printed media.
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Mads Koefoed - Macro Strategist
Mads Koefoed is a Macro Strategist at Saxo Bank. Mads’ primary focus is macroeconomics and equities, and he is responsible for the bank’s Macro Forecast model. Prior to joining Saxo Bank, Mads spent two years with Danske Capital, where he worked in the Danish Equities team.
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Nick Beecroft - Senior FX Consultant
An Honours Graduate from Oxford University, Nick Beecroft brings over 25 years of international trading experience within the financial industry, including senior Global Markets roles at Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank and Citibank. Nick was a member of the Bank of England's Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee.
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Andrew Robinson, FX Analyst
Andrew Robinson has been associated with financial markets for almost 30 years and has worked in key financial centres in London, Europe and Singapore. He has been stationed in Asia for the past 15 years and currently writes a daily market commentary for the Asian FX trading session and formulates the FX trading ideas for Saxo Bank’s Daily Trading Stance. He also regularly contributes articles with an Asia perspective to regional print media and is a regular commentator on television. Andrew’s FX strategies are based on a combination of technical analysis, fundamental analysis and market flow information
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Michael Schmeja - Global Head of Derivatives Sales
Michael work's with Saxo Bank's direct options business. He joined Saxo bank in 2009 from the Royal Bank of Scotland for where he covered financial institutions in Switzerland, Germany and Austria on all FX products. Previously Michael was Managing Director, Head of Foreign Exchange and Money Market for The Private Wealth Management Group at Deutsche Bank, and prior to that, Michael worked at JPMorgan Chase where he was responsible for FX Spot, swaps, forwards and options in Germany and Austria.
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 Ken Veksler, Senior Manager, Trading and Advisory
Ken Veksler is a market professional with over 15 years experience dealing directly in the FX interbank markets. Over the course of his career Ken has worked for various tier one global banks as a market maker and proprietary trader. Most recently in the four years preceding his joining Saxo Bank, Ken was managing director and founding partner of a successful asset management company based in Australia. Ken specializes in the short and medium term trading of predominantly G10 currency pairs and has a trading style focused on relative value.
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 Didier Abbato, Senior Manager, Trading Advisory
Didier Abbato is a Senior Manager with the Trading Advisory Team at Saxo Bank, advising the bank's High Net Worth clients
Didier has been on a trading desk for 13 years, starting with trading emerging market debt in London at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and then London-based broker London Forfaiting Cpy. He started at Saxo Bank in early 2004, holding positions of trading advisor (mainly stocks and stock indices) and market-maker for stock CFDs. He holds a Masters in Finance from the University of Bordeaux, and is a CFA Charterholder from the CFA Institute. Read articles by Didier Abbato
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Ole S. Hansen, Senior Manager, CFDs and Listed Products
Ole Hansen is a specialist in traded futures with particular focus on commodities. He has previously worked 15 years in London most recently for a multiasset futures and foreign exchange hedge fund where he was in charge of the trade execution team.
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Alan Plaugmann - Deputy Head, CFDs and Listed Products
Alan is a specialist in all traded futures: Interest Rate and Financial Futures, Equity Index Futures, Currency Futures and Commodity Futures. Alan majored in finance at London University and is a native Danish speaker and fluent in English. Prior to joining Saxo Bank in 2003, Alan spent 12 years in London working at CB Corporation in the Advance Arbitrage Trading Group and Advance Trading Group with focus on US & European bond arbitrage, market making and proprietary trading. Alan is available for comments on commodities, especially energies and precious metals, in addition to European and US Fixed Income and Money Market Futures. |
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