Ganesh Ramchandran

Ganesh Ramchandran has served as Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance at the NUS Business School, where he has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in Risk Management and Fixed Income. He is actively involved in CAMRI’s g-CAPM Executive Education programme and has been teaching the Fixed Income and Currencies module since 2015.

Ganesh has more than 25 years of experience in the financial markets across New York, London, and Singapore, with a background in quantitative trading and risk management.

Ganesh is currently teaching an MSc course at Imperial College, London, in “Applied Trading Strategies”, focusing mainly on systematic trading, and is also consulting with different buy-side institutions.

Whilst in Singapore, Ganesh was Managing Director and Founder of a consulting firm specialising in risk management and education; clients included Temasek and ESSEC Business School. Prior to that, he was in charge of Asia investments for Barclays Treasury and previously in the Counterparty Risk group, where he managed and traded the firm’s derivative exposures. In addition, Ganesh advised start-up firms/hedge funds in statistical arbitrage, distressed credit, and global macro.

In London, Ganesh was a Senior Portfolio Manager at the hedge fund CQS where he headed structured credit trading and launched his own fund on credit correlation and volatility. At DrKW, he was a senior proprietary trader in exotic credit and previously was the firm’s global head of risk for credit products. At CSFB, he was part of the interest rate derivatives team that helped unwind Long Term Capital Management’s euro swap portfolio following the hedge fund’s collapse in 1998.

Ganesh was at Goldman Sachs in New York, where he was part of the Fixed Income Research group that helped develop the Black-Litterman Global Asset Allocation model and worked directly with Fischer Black in marketing the model to pension fund clients. He began his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as an Assistant Economist.

Ganesh holds an MSc in Operations Research and a BA with distinction in Economics and Mathematics, both from Columbia University.