Ray Uy
Ray Uy is Global Head of Fixed Income and Currency Trading at Invesco, an independent global investment management firm. In his role, he is responsible for leading all aspects of Global FIC trading activities, including implementation, governance, and market structure, among others. Uy is a highly regarded investment portfolio manager with over 30 years of experience in the industry. He has extensive portfolio management and trading experience across global fixed-income and currency markets as well as significant research experience in both fundamental and quantitative macroeconomic analysis. Prior to joining Invesco, he was Executive Vice President and Head of Trading and International Sector at Hartford Investment Management Co., where he was lead portfolio manager for non-US-dollar-based fixed-income portfolios.
Ray Uy Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Global Head of Fixed Income and Currency Trading
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Senior Portfolio Mananger and Head of Macro Research & Currency Trading
Academic History
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M.S., Applied Economics
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B.B.A., Banking and Finance
He developed and deployed a highly sensitive and scalable portfolio trading model incorporating critical pricing, inventory, liquidity, and transaction cost inputs.
He established an industry‐leading process for dealing with the discontinuance of LIBOR and its replacement by Alternate Reference Rates.
He has also served as the firm's Operational Lead on cryptocurrencies, tokenization, and blockchain.
He has also worked across Invesco's business units to develop and operationalize the firm's core strategies around trading, product, and business development.
EXPERTISE
Uy has an industry-leading track record of success in both healthy markets and crisis environments.
He is an expert in global fixed income trading and portfolio management, currency trading, credit research, and macroeconomic analysis.
He also has specialized expertise with currency strategies related to alpha generation and hedging.
He has analytic proficiency in governance frameworks across regulatory, compliance, and market structure segments within the investment management industry.
EARLY CAREER
Uy was HIMCO's Head of Fixed Income Trading, where he managed a centralized platform of traders across multiple fixed income sectors.
He managed HIMCO traders focused on a wide range of fixed income securities including investment grade, high yield, emerging markets, government grade, mortgage-backed securities, derivatives, municipal obligations, and more.
Before joining HIMCO, Uy spent six years at Mackay Shields in New York and five years at Fiduciary Trust.
He performed macroeconomic analyses of developed economies across the globe and produced successful interest rate and currency trading strategies for MacKay Shields.