Michael Ashton
Michael Ashton is Managing Principal at Enduring Investments, a specialty consulting firm focused on the inflation market. Prior to this, he had a 20-year career at Wall Street, where he worked as a trader, strategist, and salesman at large investment banks. Ashton is known as one of the pioneers in U.S. inflation market innovation. Since 2003, he has been a leading force in developing new instruments and methods for accessing and hedging various inflation exposures. He is now widely recognized as a premier subject matter expert on inflation products and inflation trading.
Michael Ashton Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Managing Principal
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Associate Director
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Vice President
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Vice President
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Associate
Academic History
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BA in Economics, Summa Cum Laude
- Ashton traded the first interbank U.S. CPI swaps while at Barclays.
- He invented and was the sole market-maker for the CME CPI Futures contract.
- He specializes in fixed-income options trading, relative-value analysis, and inflation trading.
- He has written extensively about the use of inflation-indexed products for hedging real exposures.
- He has written more broadly in a commentary format about the rates markets and macroeconomy.
- He frequently speaks in front of professional and retail audiences.
- He was awarded his CFA charter in 2001.
- He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.