Our Team | ASR Ltd.

Our Team

Our committed team is focused on increasing the reach and impact of our research. We continue to strive for excellence, and are focused on strategically investing in new domains and improving our products, coverage, data, and AI to achieve this goal.

FIND OUT MORE

Directors

Peter has extensive experience, most recently as the UK Head of Commercial and Transaction Banking at Société Générale. Previously, he served as Head of UK Equities and Derivative Sales at SG London and Deputy Head of SG New York Markets. His 30+ year career includes senior positions at Citigroup and Schroders Securities.

Chief Executive Officer

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

ASR's Co-Founder and Chairman Previously, he was chief global investment strategist for Merrill Lynch, where he worked for eleven years -including three years in New York. He ran the Global Fund Managers' Survey - a powerful tool for understanding how investors view the world.

Chairman

CHAIRMAN

ASR's Co-Founder and Chief Investment Advisor, he focuses on Global Economics and Strategy. Ian has over 35 years of experience in economics and equity strategy, previously as Chief European Investment Strategist at UBS (where he was #1 Extel ranked for European Strategy).

Chief Investment Advisor

CHIEF INVESTMENT ADVISOR

Verity is the Head of Sales for ASR and has been rated in the top 3 of the Macro Specialist Sales category (often in the #1 position) by Extel in the Global and European Economic and Strategy categories every year since 2003.

Global Head of Sales

GLOBAL HEAD OF SALES

Peter bleed_edited_edited_edited_edited_

Peter has over 30 years’ experience working in financial services in senior operational and technical roles. Most recently he was COO of HSBC’s Global Research division. Prior to that, he was CTO for Global Equity Advisory at UBS.

Chief Operating Officer

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Research Analysts

Research

Nick Nelson

Head of Research

Nick heads up ASR's Research team, he joined ASR after 17 years at UBS Investment Bank, most recently as Managing Director, Head of European Equity Strategy. He regularly contributes to media, such as Financial Times, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, WSJ, and cross-asset media roundtables.

Chief Economist

Dominic White

Dominic White has 15 years’ experience, working first at the UK Treasury and latterly on the number-one ranked European economics team at ABN Amro covering the UK and eurozone economies.

Head of Rates Strategy

Ebrahim Rahbari

Ebrahim spent 13 years at Citigroup, initially in London and then from 2015, in New York. He held a number of senior roles at Citigroup, most recently, Managing Director, Global Head of Foreign Exchange Analysis where he led an Institutional Investor top-ranked team. Ebrahim holds a PhD and MRes in Economics from London Business School and a BA in Economics and Management from Oxford University.

Head of Quant Strategy

Charles Cara

Charles Cara has been a European Strategist at Merrill Lynch and has worked in the research departments at Dresdner Kleinwort and Morgan Stanley.

Asset Allocation Strategist

Zahra Ward-Murphy

Zahra covers alternative and real assets. Before joining ASR, Zahra worked as a global economist at Dresdner Kleinwort, and as an FX analyst at both Dresdner Kleinwort and BNP Paribas. She is a CFA charterholder.

Emerging Market Economist

Adam Wolfe

Covering China and emerging markets for over 15 years, Adam has contributed to the FT, WSJ, Bloomberg and The Economist, and recently to The US-China Economic & Security Review Congressional Commission. He was previously a Strategist at MRB and the Director of Asia Ex-Japan at Roubini Global Economics.

Economist

Ben Blanchard

Ben Blanchard joined ASR as an economist in September 2016, most recently focusing on European economics. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Bath.

Head of Climate Macro Strategy

Michael Penn

Michael is Head of Climate Macro Strategy, advising investors on how to integrate climate change factors into the drivers of views on macroeconomics, strategy and asset allocation. Prior to ASR he was Chief Economist and Strategist at Cohen & Steers in New York, and spent eight years at Merrill Lynch in New York and London.

Senior Climate Macro Strategist

Michael Hessel

Michael Hessel has been with ASR since September 2011, focusing on political economy and political risk in Europe, as well as thematic research. Prior to joining, Michael read Politics & Philosophy at Edinburgh University.

Junior Analyst

Will Moss

Will joined ASR in January 2025 as a Junior Analyst within the Research Department. He will be working across the whole of Research supporting and contributing to our top-ranked product. Will spent the last 3 years at Fenchurch Advisory Partners, most recently as an Investment Banking Associate, and has an Economics degree from Cambridge University.

Specialist Sales

Sales

Global Head of Sales

Verity Hunt

Verity Hunt is the Head of Sales for ASR and has been rated in the top 3 of the Macro Specialist Sales category (often in the #1 position) by Extel in the Global and European Economic and Strategy categories every year since 2003.

Head of Sales, North America

Jeffrey Marine

Jeff is Head of Absolute Strategy Research Services, the firm’s institutional investor client business in North America. He previously spent nearly 30 years with Merrill Lynch, Nomura, and HSBC in various roles, including Head of Equity Sales teams in New York and London. Jeff earned an MBA in Finance at the Wharton School and a BA in Economics at the University of Virginia.

Head of Sales, UK

James Warden

James joined ASR from CFRA, where he spent over 3.5 years on the Institutional Sales Team across EMEA. James has over 10 years experience in institutional research sales, primarily across equities and macro strategy in both Hong Kong and London.

Head of AU Sales

Luke MacRedmond

Luke is head of ASR’s Australasian business. His prior experience includes portfolio management roles in London and Dublin and senior executive positions for HSBC Asset Management and Challenger Financial Services in Australia.

Want to learn more?

Want to find out
how our research can improve your performance?