【Title】Hedge Funds Industry and The U.S. Subprime Crisis

【Speaker】Raymond Foo

【Date】2008-10-16Thursday.

【Time】7:20-9:20pm

【Target Students】MBA, Undergraduate, Graduate

【Language】English / Chinese

【Venue】508 Weilun Building

【Speaker's background】Former Managing Director & Head of Strategy, BNP Paribas,

Asia; now partner and also Chief Strategist in Brevan Howard LLP.

Raymond Foo is now partner and also Chief Strategist in Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP (one of the biggest hedge funds in London).He was Managing Director and Asia Head of Regional Strategy at BNP Paribas.He began his career in research in 1992 with Crosby Securities (SG Securities).

Foo has the rare distinction of being the only person in Asia to have been rated number one by institutional investors in the three separate categories of regional strategy, China strategy and regional economics. Over the last decade, Foo has consistently received top recognition for his research work by institutional investors who valued his insightful and thought provoking analysis.

In the various rankings of Institutional Investor, AsiaMoney, and the Asset Survey, Foo has often been ranked among the best in Asia.

He is a frequent speaker at various conferences around the world and a regular guest on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and other broadcasting agencies.

Foo earned his degree in economics at the University of Western Australia under a Colombo Plan scholarship.