Name
Dr Ian Hunt
Job Title
Industry Consultant and Author on Digital assets, Advisor on Tokenisation
Company
Schroders
Speaker Bio
Dr Ian Hunt is a well-known authority on Buy-Side business process and technology. He is a frequent conference speaker and contributor to industry publications. Ian has advised many leading asset managers and asset owners on investment processes, operations and technology. Ian is particularly recognised for his work in promoting innovation in technology for investment. His clients include M&G, BNP Paribas, LGIM, Moody’s, Insight Investment, Fidelity, Hiscox, Columbia Threadneedle, Royal London and Hermes.
Alongside his consulting and development work, Ian has acted regularly as an Investment Management expert witness. He has been the primary investment expert in a series of Madoff-related trials, and has provided expert investment evidence to a range of other fraud and market manipulation cases in the UK and Ireland.
Ian has supported the roll-out of liability-driven investment products at Insight, defined the business model for a new financial engineering and derivatives business for the BT Pension Scheme, structured insurance derivative funds at Hiscox and managed the derivatives components of an outsource for Threadneedle. He is recognised as an expert on investment process automation, and has led multiple system implementations in order management, asset allocation, trading, compliance and risk. He was central to the work of the global standards committee on Investment Book of Record (IBOR).
Ian is a recognised spokesman for the Buy-Side on Distributed Ledger Technology. He has provided expert input to leading DL consortia, advises asset managers on their blockchain strategies, and assists vendors and fintechs on the design of ledger-based applications. Ian was the designer of FundAdminChain, the first funds ledger in the UK market. He is the author of multiple industry papers on native digital assets and smart tokens, in work supported by both the Investment Association and the Alternative Investment Management Association.
Ian was a founder director of the consultancy CityIQ, and successfully built up a Buy-Side consulting business with a strong reputation. He was also Global Product Director for DST International, and has held Non-Executive Director positions at Xenomorph Limited (a derivatives and time-series data specialist), Catalyst Development (now Sionic) and Shrap (a digital coin replacement).
Ian has a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, an MSc in Computer Science, and a PhD in Mathematical Logic from London University. Prior to this, Ian studied Classics at school, and has A-Levels in Latin, Ancient Greek and English Literature. He speaks Italian, sometimes fluently.
Alongside his consulting and development work, Ian has acted regularly as an Investment Management expert witness. He has been the primary investment expert in a series of Madoff-related trials, and has provided expert investment evidence to a range of other fraud and market manipulation cases in the UK and Ireland.
Ian has supported the roll-out of liability-driven investment products at Insight, defined the business model for a new financial engineering and derivatives business for the BT Pension Scheme, structured insurance derivative funds at Hiscox and managed the derivatives components of an outsource for Threadneedle. He is recognised as an expert on investment process automation, and has led multiple system implementations in order management, asset allocation, trading, compliance and risk. He was central to the work of the global standards committee on Investment Book of Record (IBOR).
Ian is a recognised spokesman for the Buy-Side on Distributed Ledger Technology. He has provided expert input to leading DL consortia, advises asset managers on their blockchain strategies, and assists vendors and fintechs on the design of ledger-based applications. Ian was the designer of FundAdminChain, the first funds ledger in the UK market. He is the author of multiple industry papers on native digital assets and smart tokens, in work supported by both the Investment Association and the Alternative Investment Management Association.
Ian was a founder director of the consultancy CityIQ, and successfully built up a Buy-Side consulting business with a strong reputation. He was also Global Product Director for DST International, and has held Non-Executive Director positions at Xenomorph Limited (a derivatives and time-series data specialist), Catalyst Development (now Sionic) and Shrap (a digital coin replacement).
Ian has a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, an MSc in Computer Science, and a PhD in Mathematical Logic from London University. Prior to this, Ian studied Classics at school, and has A-Levels in Latin, Ancient Greek and English Literature. He speaks Italian, sometimes fluently.