Dr Andy Bevan

Andy started his career in 1978 with J&A Scrimgeour, a London-based specialist gilt broker. He then held posts with Chase Manhattan bank (1979-1983) and Midland bank (1983-1986) in London, working as an economist. In both positions, he specialised in the forecasting of interest rates and exchange rates. Having spent the first part of his career in the money and foreign exchange markets, he was then appointed Head of International Fixed Income Research at Drexel Burnham Lambert (1986-1988). He was subsequently Head of International Bond Research at West LB UK (1988-1990) and Head of the Financial Analytics and Structured Transactions group at Bear Stearns International (1990-1994).

In 1994, Andy was appointed Director of International Bond Research at Goldman Sachs in London. He was appointed Managing Director in 2000, and became Head of Global Markets Research, producing research and trading strategy for foreign exchange, money markets, government bonds and corporate bonds. He retired from this post in 2005 and started his own independent consulting company, before joining Fulcrum Asset Management as Research Director in May, 2006. Andy’s major research interests include exchange rate modelling and the integration of term structure theory with models of the business cycle in the macro-finance literature.