Ray Choy Swee Yew, Director and Regional Head of Fixed Income and Currency Research at the RHB Banking Group, delivered a talk to MBA Business Economics students on the outlook for the fixed income and currency markets for the Asia-Pacific region. The session, held on November 23, 2015, was hosted by Professor Arusha Cooray, Professor of Economics at Nottingham University Business School Malaysia.
Speaker profile
Ray Choy Swee Yew is Director and Regional Head of Fixed Income and Currency Research at RHB Banking Group, and leads research professionals located across Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Jakarta. Ray’s experience in the financial markets since 2002 includes G3 and Asian fixed-income and currency strategy, local currency and US Dollar global bond funds management, equities investments, and credit ratings.
Over the last decade, Ray’s experience has also included the setting up of two fixed income research teams for investment banks, a team involved in global funds management and research, and currently manages RHB Banking Group’s regional fixed income and currency research platform across strategic business units in Asia. Ray’s team also functions as an integral advisory unit within RHB Banking Group, providing research insights to debt capital markets, global markets, treasury and risk management.
In addition, he remains actively involved with the financial markets in formulating and communicating macro strategy for the fixed income and currency asset classes, providing advice on sovereign credit ratings and has written comprehensively on the link between systemic risks and bond markets. Ray’s research team was ranked 1st in The Edge’s 2008 fixed income research polls for Malaysia and was individually ranked 1st amongst Malaysia’s researchers in The Asset’s Asian Currency Bond survey in both 2009 and 2014.
Ray comments regularly on the market outlook via various media channels, such as Bloomberg and Reuters, and writes for his monthly column, “Bond Market Insights” in The Edge Weekly. Apart from regular presentations to global institutional investors, he has been invited to various financial market conferences in the region as speaker or panelist. Ray graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Finance from Heriot-Watt University and a Master’s degree in Finance from the University of London.
MBA students at NUBS Malaysia benefit from the School’s links with the local and regional business community, and regularly organises interactive sessions between business leaders and MBA students. For more information on NUBS Malaysia's MBA programmes, please email NUBS.MBA@nottingham.edu.my.
Posted on 23rd November 2015