Structured products debate
Takis Anastassopoulos (TA) has been a senior portfolio manager at Insight Investment since June 2004 with responsibility for index replication funds and structured products.
John Ferry (JF) writes regularly on equity derivatives and structured products for Euromoney and contributes to Risk, Life & Pensions and Worth magazines. He has a degree in economics from the University of St Andrews.
Donald Leitch (DL) is head of exotic equity derivatives structuring at Commerzbank Corporates and Markets in London. He has more than 10 years’ experience of structuring equity derivative based solutions for retail, private banking, and institutional investors.
Kerrigan Procter (KP) is head of quantitative products at Legal & General Investment Management. He is responsible for developing risk management solutions for pension clients.
Tarik Ben Saud (TBS) is head of the liability driven investments team at Barclays Global Investors. The team manages £25 billion of liability mandates for a large number of UK and European pension schemes. He joined BGI in 1997.
William Nicoll (WN) is a director of fixed interest at Prudential M&G working with pension fund and insurance clients on fund solutions, principally using structured credit and other newer asset classes.
Nick Horsfall (NH) a senior investment consultant at Watson Wyatt, is principally involved in asset liability modelling and strategic asset allocation advice including the use of derivatives. He also researches bond investment managers.
Edward Willems (EW) co-heads the interest rate derivatives & hybrids product line at Calyon Corporate and Investment Bank, Crédit Agricole Group, focusing on the sales and structuring aspects of the activity.
