Lee Ferridge

Head of Macro Strategy, North America
State Street Global Markets

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Summit Day 1

Friday, February 6th, 2015

11:50 360° Perspective: Global interest rate trends - What opportunities will the interest rate rise bring to fixed income investors?

Finally, at the end of 2015, the FED raised interest rates, something that had been on the horizon for over 12 months. Now, the rate rise provides both challenges and opportunities, especially with diverging interest rate policies across the globe. During this session, our experts will provide insights on:

What impact will rising rates have on US markets and how can you benefit from the rate rise?
What will a rate rise combined with a stronger USD mean for global trading?
How can you successfully steer your desk through diverging interest rate policies across the globe?
Interest rates and sell offs - How can you reduce risk in your portfolio during stressed market conditions?
Will a rate rise in the US prompt other central banks to do the same?

14:00 360° Perspective: As risk takers, how do the buy side need to adjust to risk reversal flows?

Historically, the buy side have always relied on the sell side for shepherding risk. However, due to capital constraints, the sell side cannot price risk and transfer it to their own balance sheet as freely as they could in the past. With the buy side now warehousing more risk on their books, they need to find new methods to manage this. This panel will provide thought leadership around:

How have capital constraints on banks impacted their ability to take on and price risk?
With the buy side now warehousing risk, is there enough liquidity in stressed market conditions?
If there was a major event, how could the buy side source funds and what needs to be done to source liquidity?
As the buy side can no longer rely on sell side balance sheets and prop desks, how can you find someone for the other end of a trade?