Colchester Global Investors is an independent, global government bond manager and was founded in 1999 by Ian Sims, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer. The firm manages approximately US$27bn for international clients across of variety of investment products: Global Bond, Global Inflation-Linked Bond, Green Bond, Local Currency Emerging Market Debt, Frontier Markets and Global Unconstrained Alpha. Colchester has a singular investment process which is applied in the same way to all the different products managed. We value bonds according to their real yields and currencies based on their real exchange rates. Both bond and currency valuations are adjusted for the financial stability of the underlying country and ESG factors. Colchester is majority-owned by its employees, allowing constancy of purpose and an alignment of interests between employees and clients. The firm is headquartered in London and has regional offices in New York, Singapore, Dublin, Madrid, Munich, Dubai and Sydney.

Senior PM in SSgA's Active Global Fixed Income team.

Responsibilities include;- managing sovereign bond portfolios for BIAM's clients - generating alpha through duration, curve, intermarket and currency risk- trading bond futures to generate alpha- macroeconomic research

I was responsible for preparing market commentaries for inclusion in client performance reports. I was also responsible for communicating investment strategies and portfolio changes to relationship managers and others sections of the company.

I worked in the department responsible for the regulation of stockbrokers and asset management companies. My responsibilities included analysis of financial statements and capital adequacy reports, liasing with the finance, compliance and risk functions of regulated firms, and onsite inspections of regulated firms.