Robert Jan Teuwissen - A progressive investment professional with more than 25 years of experience in trading the financial markets, combined with running an independent trading & advisory business for the last 2 decades.
Having a consistent track record including managing trading desks and advising globally on interest rate and FX risk. Furthermore specialist in taking risk to generate above-average returns.
Head of Trading management team running two different currency investment processes: an Absolute return discretionary forex process and a higher vol target systematic forex strategy. Products included absolute return funds and managed accounts, as well as active and passive currency overlay mandates.
As a 25+ year veteran of the commodity & foreign exchange markets, I have been responsible for currency strategy and trading for several high-profile clients who are allocated within the currency space. I have managed an alpha driven portfolio of G10 currencies, as well as a number of other hedging programmes and strategies. I have been responsible for building out the Currency Desk, including infrastructure, technology, and reporting.
Having started trading commodities futures & currencies on the ICE, LME, CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX in the early 90's, I have gained the expertise to manage risk through times of calm, as well as times of extreme market stress, My years of experience have helped me model and analyse risk in both short and long-term time horizons, studying market fundamentals, and correlations across currencies.
Specialties: Commodity & Currency Strategy, Trader Selection, Multi Strategies.
Knowledge of Modern Portfolio Theory & Behavioral finance, skilled in applying the investment process across portfolio structures and investment vehicles.