Gary Dugan has 37 years experience in senior roles at some of the leading global financial services businesses such as JPMorgan, Barclays and Merill Lynch and more recently in the UAE at Emirates NBD and NBAD. As a Chief Investment Officer and Global Strategist, he has led investment teams in private banking and institutional portfolio management for multi asset portfolios for the past 18 years for clients around the world. Prior to that, he was a sell-side European equity market strategist. His formative years were spent as UK equity portfolio manager for major UK pension funds and investment management companies.

Gary has a reputation for making bold calls on markets including call the 1987 crash, the rise of the eurozone, the collapse of the tech bubble, and 2007 World Financial crisis. More recently he predicted Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election. He has been regularly in the media in Europe, Asia, Middle East and on Wall Street.

Specialties: Private Wealth management; portfolio theory and practice; active versus passive management. Strategic and tactical asset allocation. Equity portfolio management. Change management in asset management and private banking.