Steen Jakobsen first joined Saxo Bank in 2000 and has served as both Chief Economist and Chief Investment Officer since 2009. He focuses on delivering asset allocation strategies and analysis of the overall macroeconomic and political landscape as defined by fundamentals, market sentiment and technical developments in the charts.

John Hardy joined Saxo Bank in 2002 and has been Head of FX Strategy since October 2007. He focuses on delivering strategies and analyses in the currency market as defined by fundamentals, changes in macroeconomic themes, and technical developments.

Ole Hansen joined Saxo Bank in 2008 and has been Head of Commodity Strategy since 2010. He focuses on delivering strategies and analyses of the global commodity markets defined by fundamentals, market sentiment and technical developments.

Peter Garnry joined Saxo Bank in 2010 and is Head of Equity Strategy. In 2016, he became responsible for the quantitative strategies team, which focuses on how to apply computer models to financial markets. He develops trading strategies and analyses of the equity markets as well as individual company stocks applying statistics and models.

Althea Spinozzi is a Manager with Saxo Bank’s Global Sales Trading team. Spinozzi maintains working knowledge of investment banking as well as international economic organisations and has professional experience in Denmark, the US, the UK, Switzerland, and Mexico.

Christopher Dembik is Head of Macroeconomic Research at Saxo. He is also member of the Polish economic think tank CASE (Center for Social and Economic Research) and advisor to French MPs.

Jessica Amir has over 14 years of experience in financial markets and joins Saxo from Bell Direct, an online stock broking business, where she was the lead Senior Market Analyst and presenter. She previously headed news and content at the Sequoia group, which owns Finance News Network. Jessica also has extensive broadcast experience with ABC, Sky News, Seven Network and Nine Network- where she interviewed Prime Ministers including Tony Abbott, Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd as well as Federal Treasurers and ASX 200 CEOs. Jessica was a qualified financial adviser, and held roles at Commonwealth Bank, Suncorp and AMP.

Redmond Wong is Market Strategist at Saxo Markets Hong Kong. Redmond has a 30-year career in hedge fund, private equity, investment management, institutional sales and proprietary trading. When working as a senior portfolio manager at BNP Paribas Private Bank in Hong Kong, he sat on the bank’s global investment committee as a voting member to set investment strategies and portfolio grids. In more recent years, He managed a multi-strategy hedge fund. The crux of the fund’s strategies included long-short equities and global macro-trading.

Charu Chanana is Saxo Markets’ Market Strategist based in Singapore. She has over 10 years’ experience in the financial markets, most recently as the Lead Asia Economist at Continuum Economics, where her purview included macroeconomic analysis for emerging Asian countries, with a key focus on India and Southeast Asia. She is adept at analysing and monitoring the impact of domestic and external macroeconomic shocks to the region. Charu has been highly ranked in Bloomberg’s forecasting polls, and is regularly consulted by the media for views on markets and economies. She has been widely quoted in press articles and appears frequently on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and Channel News Asia, and across Singapore’s business radio channels.