Andrew Smithers
Valuing Stock Markets
Author and lecturer
Andrew founded Smithers & Co., a leading advisor to investment managers on international asset allocation, in 1989. Prior to starting Smithers & Co. Andrew was at S.G. Warburg from 1962 to 1989. He is a regular contributor to the London Evening Standard, the Nikkei Kinyu Shimbun and Sentaku Magazine. He is the author of Valuing Wall Street (2000) with Stephen Wright and Japan’s Key Challenges For The 21st Century (1998) with David Asher.
Stephen Wright
Valuing Stock Markets
Author and Lecturer
Stephen is a lecturer in economics at Birkbeck College University of London. He was previously a staff economist at the Bank of England and a Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Economics and Politics at the University of Cambridge. Since 1991 he has been a part time consultant to Smithers & Co. ,authoring reports for professional investors on financial markets. He is the co-author with Andrew Smithers of Valuing Wall Street (2000).
Peter Warburton
Investing in Periods of Inflation, Disinflation and Deflation
Author and Lecturer
Peter spent 15 years in the City as economic advisor and chief economist for the investment bank Robert Fleming and at Shearson Leman. He had previously worked as an economic researcher, forecaster and lecturer at the London Business School and the City University Business School. He is a member of the IEA’s Shadow Monetary Policy Committee and the author of Debt and Delusion (1999).
Gordon Pepper, CBE
The Monetary Theory of Asset Prices
Author, lecturer
During the nineteen seventies and eighties Gordon was the UK equivalent of Dr. Henry Kaufman. He joined W. Greenwell and Co. in 1960 and throughout his career there built the UK’s leading gilt advisory company. For more than ten years he was the premier analyst in the gilt-edged market. Gordon left the city in 1989 and became a professor at the City University Business School (now the Sir John Cass Business School). Gordon was an adviser to Margaret Thatcher on monetary issues and is the author of Money Credit and Asset Prices (1994) and Monetarism Under Thatcher (2000) amongst others.
Michael J. Oliver, PhD.
The Monetary Theory of Asset Prices
Lecturer
Michael is a professor of economic history with fifteen years of experience working in higher education, the financial services industry and the IT sector. He has worked and travelled extensively in the UK, Europe and the USA in a wide variety of academic, commercial and industrial organisations. He is a recognised authority on monetary policy, exchange rate regimes and financial markets and institutions, and an author of numerous books and articles. His research and teaching have put him into contact with former Prime Ministers, senior officials in HM Treasury, the Bank of England, economic advisers and economists. He is co-author with Gordon Pepper of Monetarism Under Thatcher (2000).
Herman Brodie
Behavioral Finance
Author and Lecturer
Herman received his grounding in the financial markets as a trader of soft commodity, stock and fixed income-futures. In 1992 he developed Deutsche Banks quantitative trading models for the currency markets. The systematic trading strategies which developed from these models are today in use by traders, fund managers, monetary authorities and corporate treasurers around the world. Herman was a co-founder of Cognitrend, a company established in 2000 to advise financial institutions on the utilization of Behavioral Finance techniques.
Joachim Goldberg
Behavioral Finance
Author
Joachim is a veteran of twenty five years at Deutsche Bank where as head of global technical analysis he introduced the first trading models into the bank. In 1996 he began his investigations into Behavioral Finance and in 2000 founded Cognitrend to advise financial institutions on the utilization of Behavioral Finance techniques. He is the author of Behavioral Finance (1999).
Barry Riley
A History of Institutional Investment
Author and Lecturer
Until his recent retirement Barry was the investment editor of the Financial Times, which he joined in 1967. Barry is highly respected throughout the investment industry and is an Honorary Fellow of the Actuarial Profession.
Robin Angus
The History of Institutional Investment
Lecturer
Robin entered the investment business as a fund manager with Baillie Gifford in 1977. In 1981 he joined Wood, Mackenzie and Co. where for many years he was ranked number one UK Investment Trust Analyst. From 1984 he has been a non-executive director of Personal Assets Trust PLC and he has been an executive director since 2003. He is author of Haec Olim: Exploring the World of Investment Trusts 1981-91 and has contributed to many more publications including The Split Capital Investment Trust Crisis(2004).
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