Speakers
Gordon PepperGordon has been an influential City figure since the 1970s. He is a member of the Shadow Monetary Policy Committee and continues to forecast and research on economic theory.
Michael OliverMichael Oliver is an economic historian and business consultant who specialises in monetary theory, exchange rates and fi nancial markets.
Leigh Skene
Leigh Skene has been involved in financial markets since the 1950s – on the buy side at the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada and on the sell side at premier Canadian investment banks where he became Head of Fixed Income Trading, then Chief Economist. He established himself as an independent economic consultant specializing in financial markets in 1980. He moved to England in 1993 to help his clients gain better international perspective. Leigh Skene wrote four books, Managing a Bond Portfolio, 1977; The Canadian Economy: its problems and its potential, 1978; That's the Way the Money Goes, 1988 and Cycles of Inflation and Deflation, 1992. He continues to write articles and two published in the first half of 2007 warned of dangers that have since hurt financial markets – first from structured finance and derivatives and second from contagion from the US sub-prime mortgage fiasco.
Leigh Skene has been involved in financial markets since the 1950s – on the buy side at the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada and on the sell side at premier Canadian investment banks where he became Head of Fixed Income Trading, then Chief Economist. He established himself as an independent economic consultant specializing in financial markets in 1980. He moved to England in 1993 to help his clients gain better international perspective. Leigh Skene wrote four books, Managing a Bond Portfolio, 1977; The Canadian Economy: its problems and its potential, 1978; That's the Way the Money Goes, 1988 and Cycles of Inflation and Deflation, 1992. He continues to write articles and two published in the first half of 2007 warned of dangers that have since hurt financial markets – first from structured finance and derivatives and second from contagion from the US sub-prime mortgage fiasco.
Adrian Philips
Adrian Philips has over 25 years experience of international equity markets. He has worked with Williams de Broë, Dresdner Kleinwort, Société Générale and Baring Securities and his career has involved research management, national market investment strategy as well as research into individual companies and sectors. The research team that he managed for Continental Europe at Dresdner Kleinwort was ranked number one by Extel and he was personally ranked in the top three by both Extel and Institutional Investor for company research and strategy research in Germany. Amongst the many investment banking mandates that he supported was the privatisation of St Gobain, the first ever by a French government, for which he was the lead analyst. More recently his work has covered the global technology hardware industry. Adrian is of British and Swiss nationality and speaks fluent French and German.
Adrian Philips has over 25 years experience of international equity markets. He has worked with Williams de Broë, Dresdner Kleinwort, Société Générale and Baring Securities and his career has involved research management, national market investment strategy as well as research into individual companies and sectors. The research team that he managed for Continental Europe at Dresdner Kleinwort was ranked number one by Extel and he was personally ranked in the top three by both Extel and Institutional Investor for company research and strategy research in Germany. Amongst the many investment banking mandates that he supported was the privatisation of St Gobain, the first ever by a French government, for which he was the lead analyst. More recently his work has covered the global technology hardware industry. Adrian is of British and Swiss nationality and speaks fluent French and German.
