HALKIN SERVICES - Key Persons

Bob started his career in the Birmingham Stock Exchange in 1967. Following the amalgamation of the provincial exchanges in 1972 he moved to London and subsequently joined Kitkat & Aitken to take advantage of the growth in International Bond Markets and the abolition of Exchange Control. His broking career began in 1993 when he joined Williams de Broe (WdB). Since 1999 he specialised in the Natural Resource Sector with a focus on the junior gold and oil stocks. He served as a director of the AIM VCT 2 from 2002 until 2007. In 2011, WdB was acquired by Evolution Securities and subsequently by Investec. He left his position as senior investment director in June 2016 after five years under the Investec umbrella, joining Hobart Capital Markets LLP. Bob was a founder director of Halkin Services from 2002 and enriched us with his enthusiasm, experience, wit and innumerable corporate and financial market connections. Bob introduced the Halkin network to dozens of proprietors and senior executives in the fields of energy, mining and technology, who accepted his invitations to speak at our regular lunches and dinners. Bob knew everybody. He was a remarkable man and we are greatly saddened by his passing.

Job Titles:

• Director
• Fund Manager at Newscape Capital Group

Charlie Morris is a fund manager at Newscape Capital Group. In addition, he is the editor of the Fleet Street Letter, the Britain's oldest financial newsletter, and Atlas Pulse which is a specialist publication on gold and digital currencies. He spent 17 years at HSBC Global Asset Management as the Head of Absolute Return managing a multi-asset fund range overseeing $3 billion. He is a familiar face in the financial media, often discussing the gold market. Prior to fund management, Charlie was an officer in the Grenadier Guards, British Army.

Job Titles:

• Director
• Economist
• Specialist

After graduating with an Honours Degree in Economics from Nottingham University in 1975, David became a Stockbroking Economist, covering first the UK, then the G7 economies and from 1987 - 2020 specialising in Asia. From 1987-1991, David was HSBC/James Capel's Senior Pacific Basin Economist. In 1991, David became a specialist Asian Equity Salesman with a macro orientation, first with Sassoon (Europe) and then with Smith NewCourt/Merrill Lynch. In 1999, he joined South China Securities (UK) Ltd as an Asian Equity Salesman and Strategist, becoming the Director of Sales and Institutional Research in 2000. From September 2005 - March 2020 David was employed by UOB KayHian as a member of the Asian Equity Sales team in London. In 2007 he became a Director of UOB Kay Hian (UK) Ltd. David is now an independent Economics & Financial Markets consultant with links to the Independent Research Forum. He has been a member of the Society of Professional Economists (formerly the Society of Business Economists) for over forty years. He was appointed a Director of Halkin Services Limited in May 2020.

Job Titles:

• Economist
• Managing Director & Contributor

Peter Warburton has worked as an applied economist in London since 1975, graduating from Warwick University with a Masters degree and gaining a doctorate from City University in 1988. He has worked in the academic and financial sectors in a variety of roles and is a frequent contributor to economic debate. He spent 15 years in the City of London as UK economist and economic adviser for the investment bank Robert Fleming and at Lehman Brothers. Previously, he worked as an economic researcher, forecaster and lecturer at the London and Bayes Business Schools. He has been a member of the IEA's Shadow UK Monetary Policy Committee since its inception in 1997. He is the author of Debt and Delusion, subtitled ‘Central Bank follies that threaten economic disaster', a critical analysis of the uses and abuses of debt in the global financial system, first published in 1999. He directs the international consultancy, Economic Perspectives, formed in 1996. He lectures on the Practical History of Financial Markets course, based at Heriot Watt Business School in Edinburgh and teaches occasionally on a postgraduate course at Cardiff Business School. Until 2017 he was an economist at Ruffer LLP, an investment management company.

Job Titles:

• Director

Robin Griffiths is one of the world's most experienced and highly regarded market analysts. As well as being one of the two managing editors of Dynamic Investment Trends Alert, he is also currently Head of the Multi-Asset Research & Advisory team at the ECU Group. The team was awarded 'Independent Research House of the Year' and 'Best Independent Research House for Equities' in the Technical Analyst Awards 2018, 'Best Independent Research House for Fixed Income' and 'Best Independent Research House for Emerging Markets' categories of the 2017 Technical Analyst Awards and was also finalist in four categories of the 2016 Technical Analyst Awards. Robin began his career in the financial markets with Phillips & Drew in 1966, having taken a degree in economics at Nottingham University. He went on to become a partner at WI Carr, the first British stock broker to have offices in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Part of this firm was acquired by Grieveson Grant, with whom Robin enjoyed a stay in Japan. In 1986 Robin joined James Capel, which was already owned by HSBC. He stayed there until normal retirement age, and during that period travelled all over the world to meet their extended client base. For the last six years of that employment, Robin was resident in New York. Having left HSBC Investment Bank in 2004, Robin then joined Rathbones as head of asset allocation in 2005, where he stayed until 2007. During that period he advised Rathpeacon Management LLC - a hedge fund invested in the 500 largest Global companies. Thereafter, he became the Technical Strategist for Cazenove Capital and managed the Worldwide Absolute Return hedge fund. Robin has been a regular on CNN, CNBC, Reuters and Bloomberg TV. He is a committee member and former chairman of the International Federation of Technical Analysts; former chairman, now fellow, of the British Society of Technical Analysts; and honorary member of the Swiss Association of Market Technicians (SAMT). Robin is also author of several notable financial market books, including Mapping the Markets, Future Storm, and has co-authored a chapter in the book Technical Analysis & Behavioural Finance in Fund Management: Discussions with Investment Managers and Analysts and Breakthroughs in Technical Analysis.

Job Titles:

• Contributor

Ron William, CFTe, is a market strategist and educator/mentor with more than 20 years of experience working for leading macro research and institutional firms, producing tactical research and trading strategies. He specialises in global, multi-asset, top-down framework, grounded in behavioural technical analysis, driven by cycles based on the "Roadmap" signature model of veteran market technician Robin Griffiths, published in his book "Mapping the Markets."

Tony had an illustrious career in the City, working as an equity salesman at Robert Fleming Securities among others. From 2006 until his retirement in 2013, he worked as a non-executive director of Northern Petroleum. He was extremely knowledgeable and astute, with a wide range of interests, an excellent amateur golfer and great company. He had an unerring ability to get to the heart of the matter. Tony was a founder director of Halkin Services from 2002, retiring on 31 July 2015. He is greatly missed.

Job Titles:

• Contributor
• Fellow of the Society of Technical Analysts

Tony Plummer is a Fellow of the Society of Technical Analysts. He was until recently a Visiting Professorial Fellow in Economics at Queen Mary, University of London. He has also been a director of Hambros Bank Ltd, of Hambros Fund Management Plc, of Rhombus Research Ltd, and of Helmsman Economics Ltd. He has a Masters Degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and an Honours Degree in Economics from the University of Kent. Tony worked as a fund manager from 1976 to 1999. The retail investment funds for which he had responsibility returned long-term first quartile performances and attracted numerous industry awards. Having retired from professional trading, he now specialises in strategic economic and financial market analysis. He has a four-year training in Core Process Psychotherapy, and is a qualified NLP practitioner. Tony is the author of ‘Forecasting Financial Markets', which is regarded as a seminal work on the influence of crowd psychology in financial markets. First published by Kogan Page in 1989, the book is now in its sixth edition and has been translated into a number of languages. More recently, Tony has pursued the insights of the legendary financial trader, William D. Gann, and has authored two books on his findings: 'The Law of Vibration' (2013) and 'The Life Cycle Hypothesis' (2018). Both were published by Harriman House.