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Whether your requirements are frequent or occasional, vanilla or exotic, we have the service to fit your needs and can offer a wide variety of structured products and market-linked investments to support your investment goals.
Capital markets strategies can be integral to building your globally diversified core portfolio.
They enable you to access particular markets, sectors and currencies, while targeting specific outcomes such as increased participation, yield generation and capital protection.
Our Capital Markets team combines institutional-level access to Citi’s full range of markets products globally with the Private Bank’s personalized service, giving you the best of both worlds.
We offer you advice and cutting-edge institutional execution covering equities, commodities, fixed income, foreign exchange, rates and hybrids, covering your needs related to market-linked products.
Our strategies help you populate your allocation with appropriate investments, implement long-term themes and pursue tactical opportunities.
To mitigate your core portfolio risks, we can identify uncorrelated assets and implement hedges on specific positions.
We also provide advice and execution if you need to acquire, finance, hedge or dispose of strategic assets – liquid or illiquid – in a wide variety of asset classes and locations.
Whether you seek long-term exposure for your core portfolio or wish to trade in your opportunistic portfolio, we can provide the access, advice and execution that you require.
We deliver institutional-quality investment products and market insights to private clients with sophisticated needs.
GLOBAL REACH
Our eight Private Bank trading desks around four continents provide 24-hour-a-day coverage of global and local markets.
Our specialists offer deep local knowledge as well as execution.
INSIGHTS FOR YOU
This includes tailored risk-management strategies and hedging and opportunistic trading ideas, as well as longer-term thematic investing.
For eligible clients with particularly complex needs, we can also draw on the portfolio analysis of our Global Investment Lab.
ENHANCED ACCESS
This includes direct contact with our trading desks, electronic trading access and pricing from across the marketplace.
We can also give you access to trading opportunities in markets outside of your home region via a dedicated local investment specialist.
Iain Armitage is Head of Markets for Citi Global Wealth. Iain’s team provide investment advice and execution services across all traded markets including equity, fixed income, foreign exchange and commodity markets. He is based in London.
Iain has worked at Citi for over 29 years and prior to his current role was the Regional Head of Investments for the Private Bank in EMEA.
Prior to this, Iain worked for Global Markets in Citi’s Institutional Clients Group including roles as Global Head of Commodity Investor Sales, Head of Fixed Income Derivatives Sales in Japan and as a fixed income derivative salesperson in Europe.
Iain holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Durham University.
Ed has overall responsibility for Citi Global Wealth Investments Capital Markets organization across North America and Latin America, whose asset class specialists provide investment guidance and execution services across equity, fixed income, foreign exchange and commodity markets.
He joined Citi Private Bank in May 2018, after nearly two decades at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. There, he was Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets Product Origination within the Global Wealth & Investment Management division.
Adam is responsible for the management and development of Citi Private Bank’s cash, derivatives and structured solutions product offerings for Asia Pacific clients across equities, foreign exchange, fixed income, credit and commodities.
Adam is an investment and risk management specialist, whose career in equity, fixed income, commodity and alternative-asset derivatives began in London in 1996. Prior to joining Citi in April 2014, he held derivative structuring, sales and sales management positions in London and Hong Kong, at US, European and Japanese investment banks, including J. P. Morgan, Credit Suisse and Daiwa Capital Markets. His clients have included an extensive range of private banks, family offices, corporates, retail banks, asset managers and insurance companies.
Adam is a third-generation Hong Kong citizen and a graduate of the London School of Economics.
Ben has overall responsibility for addressing the capital markets needs of Citi Global Wealth Investments clients throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In this capacity, he heads a variety of product, sales and execution teams covering a wide range of asset classes.
Previously, Ben served as Head of Equities, Commodities & Hybrids within EMEA Capital Markets for the Private Bank, leading a team of advisors and structurers.
Prior to that, Ben held various product specialist roles within the Private Bank’s Investments organization, having joined Citi in 2004.
He has a bachelor’s in economics and is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.
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