TradeRisks expands its advisory and transaction teams
TradeRisks is pleased to announce the appointment of three experienced professionals across a range of disciplines as part of the firm’s continued growth. It's expanding the advisory service offering, and capabilities to deliver end-user to end-user funding and hedging solutions.
“Our clients operate in an increasingly challenging and more complex economic and regulatory environment. We believe having treasury advisors that can provide insight on a wide range of issues beyond the traditional treasury and funding advice adds significant value to our clients” said Alex Pilato, Chief Executive of TradeRisks.
“In addition, many of our clients are turning to the capital markets as a source of long term funding. Pension funds and insurers are long-term investors who represent natural counterparties for our clients’ transactions. The expansion of our team with experienced actuarial and capital markets recruits further enhances our ability to structure solutions which are optimal for all parties. This will facilitate increased participation by long-term investors in end-user to end-user markets”
Nicola Foley is a qualified actuary and joins TradeRisks from Aviva Life and Pensions where she managed the team responsible for monitoring insurance risks against actuarial assumptions, feeding-in to decision making on pricing, solvency reporting and reinsurance. Her work at Aviva also included a period within the asset-liability management team, with a focus on investment strategy optimisation and risk management of non-vanilla inflation exposures on the group’s £30bn annuity portfolio.
Maria Wijngaarde joins TradeRisks to oversee relations with the UK investor base. Prior to TradeRisks, Maria worked in capital markets with the Credit Sales team at Citigroup and Nomura, covering a large investor base of pension funds, insurers and asset managers. She specialised in corporate bonds, bank debt and credit derivatives. Prior to Nomura, Maria worked at Bloomberg Emerging Markets team specialising in Fixed Income.
Marno Jooste is a qualified accountant with an audit background. He was previously part of KPMG’s Financial Engineering Group, where he was involved in developing valuation models and risk management advice to a range of corporates. Marno has also worked at Credit Suisse, with exposure in accounting and risk management for a range of derivative products.