Robert Ritchie - Global Head of Investment Risk, GAM Investments (not current)

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University of OxfordMSc (2023) in Contemporary Chinese Studies

Sep. 2022 - Oct. 2023Oxford, England, United KingdomSt Antony College | Interdisciplinary programme convened by the Oxford School of Global & Area Studies (within the Oxford China Centre), with crossover from Dept Politics & International Relations (DPIR) and other Oxford departments. Study of Contemporary China - 20th-century Political History of China, Political Economy of China, China's Foreign Policy and International Relations. Politics & Government of China - political history and development of China's polity from Mao to Xi and the contemporay political sociology of China. China's Economic Reforms - the political economy of China (1978 - 2022), the Reform era, Economic Opening, the Great Reversal, rise of Party-State Capitalism, the "China Model", and "Party-state Capitalism". Research Methods - Qualitative (including expert interviews, case studies, process tracing) and Quantitative (first in class; R Studio) - Distinction Thesis - ‘The Evolution of International Capital Investor Perceptions of the Political Economy of China Before, During, and After the 2020-2021 “Regulatory Shock” – What are the Possible Implications for Extant Political-Economic and Liberalist International-Relations Theories of China?’ (Primary exploratory research comprising 24 expert interviews of experienced director-level Western capital investors into China.)

GAM InvestmentsGlobal Head of Investment Risk

Aug. 2019 - Jul. 2022London, United KingdomRecruited by the Group CRO and Global Head of Investments to take ownership of setting up and developing the newly created investment-risk management team across London and Zurich, with additional strategic and managerial ownership of the investment-risk analytics team globally. Joint strategic ownership of developing GAM's medium-term investment risk infrastructure. AuM CHF 120bn (2019). Market, economic and political risk analysis & management - US, China, UK, Europe, Asia, Emerging & Frontier Markets. "Facing off" directly to Group CRO, the Global Head of Investments and each of the 24 Investment Directors. Working as the direct pro-active collaborative "challenge partner" across stakeholders to ensure all significant extant, nascent, and potential investment risks (both through exposure but also through market dynamics) are fully analysed, known, and understood. Direct face-to-face investment-risk transparency to Group Management Board (CEO, COO, CFO, CRO), GAM fund Boards, and GAM Clients internationally. Quorum member of the Group Investment Management Oversight Committee (chaired by Group Head of Investments) - investment performance, investment risk, ESG, business & product development, business division risk. Member of Product Development Committee. Equities - European, Global Emerging, Pan China, Asia, Japan, Global Tech, UK Multi-cap, Global, Long-short, Merger Arb. Fixed Income - Local and Hard Emerging Market Bond, MBS, Hybrid Credit / Subordinated Financials, Absolute Return Rates & Currency, Absolute Return Rates & Credit, Global & Asian High Yield, Convertibles. Systematic Multi-strategy & Alternative Risk Premia Multi-Asset Fund of Fund and Fund of Hedge Fund

Wine Project LtdFounder and MD

Mar. 2017 - Jun. 2019London Taking a short career break to work on my "passion project". Creator, developer, co-owner, wine curator, front of house, and director of customer experience of an organic-, biodynamic- and natural-focussed Wine Kitchen & Larder in East London. Built out and led a collaborative and highly effective customer-focussed team, who repeatedly won both critical but, more importantly, customer praise.

RWC PartnersHead of Investment Risk

Mar. 2011 - Dec. 2016London, United KingdomReporting directly to CEO in a strongly markets-focussed and client-facing role within a dynamic investment boutique actively managing $15bn+ of client assets (2016). (Partnership structure with Schroders plc as core investor.) Equity Long-Short ($1.5bn - $2.5bn AUM) - Europe, US, UK, Global, Pan Asian, EM | Global Absolute Rates & Currency | Global & Asian Convertibles ($2bn) | Global Emerging Markets / Frontier Markets ($2.5bn+) | Global & UK Equities | Risk Premia (ex-Fulcrum) Market, economic and political risk - Europe, US, China, Emerging Markets. · Recruited by the CEO to set up, develop and take ownership of the newly created Investment Risk function in Feb 2011 (spun out from the CEO's responsibilities). · Determined the direction and scope of the new function. Built out and developed bespoke investment risk infrastructure and analyses. · Independent, proactive analysis and direct challenge to PMs across all RWC's highly actively traded strategies. · Responsible for ensuring all pertinent market & portfolio risks across all strategies are fully analysed, known, and understood by each Investment Head and CEO daily. (Qualitative + Econometric.) · Insight into and oversight of investment process of each fund to the CEO. · Joint lead in on-boarding of EM, Frontier, and Risk Premia strategies. · Principle client-facing point of transparency to existing and prospective investors, leading all investor meetings on the investment risk of each strategy - private wealth, private banks, family office, institutional, pension funds, endowment funds. · Chair of Portfolio Risk Group (CEO, COO, CCO) · Direct responsibility to Cayman & SICAV Boards on investment risks, liquidity, performance dynamics & investment process across all funds. · Portfolio investment insight to Sales. · Close direct collaboration across CEO; COO; CFO; CCO; Sales (Institutional, Wholesale, US, European, Asian, Family Office); Investment Heads; Fund & RWC Boards.

GartmoreSenior Investment Risk Analyst (AlphaGen)

Jan. 2007 - Dec. 2010London, United Kingdom- Ownership of both equity long-short (Cayman "AlphaGen" + UCITS, AuM $11bn) and long-only equity and fixed-income portfolios, including UK, Europe, Global, Emerging Markets, China, LatAm and Quant / Stat-Arb equities and Sterling / Euro credit. (AuM of $48bn+) - Independent of but embedded within the Front Office in a markets-focussed role. - Maintaining daily a thorough understanding of all key market drivers that may influence our portfolios: macroeconomic shocks & broader contagion effects | sector rotation | style trends / reversals | market levels and sentiment | political risk (US, Europe, China). - Maintaining a detailed knowledge of the breadth and nature of exposures taken within the funds and how they relate to the key drivers evolving within the market. Understanding how the funds respond to different market dynamics on a daily basis. - Working closely with the Portfolio Managers to ensure that no unintended investment risks are taken within the portfolios and that risks taken are wholly consistent with conviction levels, prevailing market-risk conditions and investment process. - Ensuring all investment risks and underlying market exposures within portfolios are fully understood by senior management via direct in-depth bi-weekly meetings with the CIO and direct in-depth monthly governance meetings for each investment strategy with the CEO. - Ensuring both the level and nature of investment risk taken is appropriate for the investment process. Develop and implementing an internal control framework that achieves this. - Conceive, develop and build out bespoke investment-risk analytical infrastructure in collaboration with business analysts. - Effectively communicating the investment-risk approach and philosophy to both current and prospective Clients by means of face-to-face meetings and conference calls. - Face-to-face transparency to the directors of the Cayman Boards for all long-short strategies on their risk and liquidity profiles.

Ignis Asset ManagementInvestment Manager (Risk Management)

Jan. 2002 - Dec. 2006Investment risk ownership of long-short equity, long-only equity and long-only fixed-income portfolios across UK, European, N American, Asia-Pacific, Japanese and Emerging markets. Reported directly into Director of Asset Allocation (CIO Office), in a markets-facing role (multi-regional equities, global credit, IG and HY, sovereign rates). Jointly developed and enhanced the newly created Investment Risk function, within a core team of two. Assumed team lead and expanded team to three from early 2005. Pro-active, constructive and objective risk challenge directly to each investment desk head as well as value-add support. Onboarded and developed new investment-risk approach for newly-formed hedge fund JVs. Lead Investment Risk Manager on Equity Long-Short funds - Global Thematic Equity (in-house), Global EM Equity (Hexham Capital Partners JV), European Equity (Argonaut European Alpha JV), UK (Cartesian Capital Partners JV).

Blairlogie Asset ManagementInvestment Analyst (Emerging Markets - LatAm & EMEA)

Jun. 2000 - Dec. 2001Trainee Investment Manager for a thematic top-down Global Equity and GEM specialist boutique managing $1.2bn of US, Australian and Canadian institutional assets. (Company was a partnership structure with Prudential Financial Inc as a core shareholder. Partnership acquired by Ignis in 2002.) - top-down (macroeconomic, microeconomic and political) country and sector thematics across Latin America and Emerging Europe & Middle East (EEMEA) ex Russia. - maintain economic and thematic models and provide analytical insight (quantitative and qualitative) into key investment indicator forecasts for the EM markets I cover. - monitor, analyse, and interpret US macroeconomic factors and economic / market propagation to Latin American and EEMEA countries, sectors and sub-sectors. - provide qualitative and quantitative insights and projections to support investment decision-making. - research and recommend underlying stock-level investments within assigned country coverage which fully align with top-down investment signals. - monitor and evaluate geopolitical and macroeconomic risks affecting my assigned markets and assess their potential impact on investment portfolios.

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