Chris Hedley

Chris’s position with the company is Risk Manager and Strategist.

Chris joined Asia-Pacific Risk Management in January 2004 in the position of Economic Analyst. He has responsibility for financial markets, commodity markets and economic research/interpretation, designing hedging strategies and programmes for clients, compiling and writing regular financial market reports, financial and risk analysis and financial modeling to support the advisory assignments the company undertakes. Chris specialises in analysis and modeling of interest rate gap risk for financial asset and liability management. Chris has experience in treasury policy design and review.

Chris is an Economics and Finance Honours and Mathematics graduate from Otago University, Dunedin.

Chris returned to New Zealand in late 2003 following a five-year period in London and Australia. Before going overseas Chris worked in a market analysis/economics role with Carter Holt Harvey Forests. Chris worked predominantly in property investment research within large retail companies in London, and with the National Australia Bank as a quantitative analyst on an interest rate risk management system implementation in Melbourne.

Key responsibilities and skills in Chris’s roles have included economic research and econometric modeling, investment appraisal and financial modeling, and model integrity investigations.
Email: chris.hedley@aprisk.com Business: 64 9 913 4629

Duncan Shaw

Duncan’s position with the company is Risk Manager and Strategist.

Duncan joined Asia-Pacific Risk Management in May 2003 in the position of Financial Analyst. Duncan has direct experience in advising clients on financial instruments and derivative pricing, fixed interest investment portfolios/policies, hedging strategies and programmes and treasury policy design/review. Duncan specialises in the design and construction of Earnings@Risk financial models to test alternative interest rate, foreign exchange and commodity hedging policies. He has experience in compiling and writing “risk analysis and recommendation reports” as part of client advisory projects.

Duncan is an Economics Honours’ graduate from Strathclyde University, Glasgow, coming to New Zealand in 2002, following a seven-year period in London. Duncan initially worked for NatWest Markets and subsequently for ABN AMRO’s Convertible Bonds Research team. Key responsibilities included writing a regular report on Asian convertibles for global distribution and maintaining financial models for current, liquid bonds. Wide-ranging exposure to debt and equity markets has left Duncan with a good, broad knowledge base of financial markets. He was a Securities and Futures Authority (SFA) registered representative.

Email: duncan.shaw@aprisk.com Business: 64 9 913 4611

Jason Bligh

Jason’s position with the company is Risk Manager & Strategist

Jason joined Asia-Pacific Risk Management in January 2006 after graduating with a Bachelor of Business Studies in Finance from Massey University.

Jason has responsibility for coordination and liaison for retained client’s interest rate risk and foreign exchange risk exposure/hedged positions against treasury policy control limits. He completes the research and information compilation to produce the quarterly Local Government funding report. Jason provides economic, financial market and business research, as well as client report production and distribution. He also undertakes financial instrument and derivative pricing for clients, from in-house pricing models. Jason has experience in compiling and writing “risk analysis and recommendation reports” as part of client advisory projects.

Email: jason.bligh@aprisk.com Business: 64 9 913 4630