Global Markets Training

All of our trainers are financial market professionals with many years experience in delivering training courses and seminars.

Stephen Aikin
Stephen Aikin has over 20 years financial markets experience, mainly in derivatives. He has worked at Kleinwort Grieveson, Credit Suisse and SBCI, principally as an equity options specialist. Stephen specialises in relative value trading, exploiting the relationships between financial instruments, principally in the field of interest rates and fixed income. He delivers regular training courses at major banks and is the author of “Trading STIR Futures – An introduction to short term interest rate futures” (published by Harriman House).

Andrew Bevan
Andrew graduated with a first class BA in economics from Reading University in 1978 and was awarded a PhD in international monetary economics from City University in 1986. In 1994, he was appointed Director of International Bond Research at Goldman Sachs in London and then Managing Director in 2000, becoming Head of Global Markets Research producing research and trading strategy for FX, money markets and bonds. He left Goldman in 2005 joining Gavyn Davies’s Fulcrum Asset Management as Research Director in May 2006. Andrew is also a part-time lecturer in fixed income courses at the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) Centre, Reading University.

Thomas Kirchner
Thomas Kirchner created the first ever event-driven mutual fund in 2003, the Pennsylvania Avenue Event-Driven Fund (PAEDX), now called the Quaker Event Arbitrage Fund (following the merger with Quaker Funds in 2010). As Portfolio Manager, he is responsible for the day-to-day management of the fund. Thomas holds a BSc from King’s College, University of London, a Diplome from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Thomas is the author of “Merger Arbitrage: How to Profit from Event-Driven Arbitrage” (published by Wiley Finance).

Steve Ward
Steve Ward is a professional trading psychology and performance coach with a history of working with athletes and sports teams at world championship and Olympic level. His work utilises techniques and strategies from sports and performance psychology, cognitive behavioural therapy, and behavioural finance, to help traders to develop the success skills and winning mindset required to achieve their trading goals. He is a consultant to some of the leading financial institutions in Europe including hedge funds and global investment, is the in-house performance coach at Schneider Trading Associates, was a consultant to the BBC TV programme Million Dollar Traders and is a regular trainer at the London Stock Exchange. Steve is author of ‘High Performance Trading – 35 Practical Strategies To Enhance Your Trading Performance’ (Harriman House).

Nick Wesolowski
Nick Wesolowski is a consultant providing expert advice on developing trading systems to hedge funds and investment firms. He has extensive experience in portfolio management and investment strategies having worked for a UK based wealth manager and a Caribbean based hedge fund where he was trading systems developer, concentrating on multi-model investment strategies. Previously, he has worked as a trader at LIFFE dealing in short term interest rates and bond futures and options.