Bill Hubard, the renowned economist, has joined the ranks of Bullion Capital as Chief Economist.
The firm recently expanded its reach to South America. Here is more on the appointment from the official press release:
26 October 2015 — The world’s leading electronic exchange for allocated physical precious metals, Bullion Capital, has announced the appointment of renowned industry expert Bill Hubard as the company’s new Chief Economist. The addition of Bill Hubard will further strengthen the rapidly expanding Bullion Capital team by adding unparalleled knowledge and experience in the investment, trading and exchange industries.
Bill is widely recognised as an industry stalwart with vast experience acquired over his 44 -year career, and is now a regular guest on major, international news networks. His career started in bond trading at Morgan Guaranty Trust Co, New York, where he has a place in history having transacted one of the first trades ever in the original 30-year bond.
Amongst many top companies that Bill went on to work for, he managed arbitrage/mortgage backed securities at Morgan Stanley, worked on the US government/Treasury repurchase agreement as chief dealer and acted as broker for Harvard Management Trust, John Meriwether at Salomon Brothers and ‘Liar’s Poker Fame’. He was also involved in the execution of the first asset swap between Citicorp and Detroit Edison.
During his career, Bill delivered courses at the LIFFE and LSE in London, and was personally invited by Michael Bloomberg to establish and run Bloomberg’s in-house training programme. Bill played a pivotal role in the early days of Bloomberg’s operations, by giving a series of training lectures on the Bloomberg TV operation, before finally joining the network. He also served as economics commentator for two years for CNBC-TV (Europe) and issued the renowned market research report ‘Financialization of Commodities’ for the IFR/Thomson Reuters.
Commenting on the appointment, Tom Coughlin, Bullion Capital’s CEO, said: “Bill’s appointment brings an incomparable wealth of financial experience to the table and I am thrilled to have him on board. His insights are second-to-none and already the contribution he is making is proving to be invaluable to the team. His professional acumen is helping us stay ahead of the game, move our company forward and realise our mission to develop the world’s largest and most efficient electronic exchange for physical precious metals”.
In his role as Chief Economist for Bullion Capital, Bill will be representing the company at a number of important financial conferences and seminars. He continues to be a weekly guest on Bloomberg-TV (Istanbul), Fox Business News, the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 5 ‘live’, DigitalLook-TV, NDTV 24/7 and IG Index-TV, and is the co-host for Thursday’s edition of TipTV.
