Head of Business Development, NYSE Liffe
Nicholas Kennedy started his career as an equity sales trader at Instinet
in 1999 promoting electronic trading to large European Buy side
customers from Paris then London before joining a Swiss Private bank
and running the trading desk of their Paris office. Nick then moved into
commodities in 2005 when he joined Diapason Commodities
Management, co founded by Jim Rogers, in Lausanne then in
the UK where he helped open the London office. Following this
commodity hedge fund experience Nick then moved back into trading
and held senior brokerage roles in cocoa and soft commodities at ED&F
Man (MCA) and UBS in London. Nick joined NYSE Liffe’s Commodities
team in 2009 where he is based in Paris, and heads the sales and business development team.
Commodity indices have seen tremendous success as investors look for asset diversification in their portfolio; simple exposure to the asset class; or even a hedge against inflation. Historically, the main commodity indices have been very much US centred and predominately denominated in USD. Why? The main reason is that these indices use exchange traded commodity…
