Saxo Markets Adds Charu Chanana to Market Strategists Team in APAC

Fazzaco learned that Saxo Markets, the online trading and investment specialist, has selected  Charu Chanana to join its market strategists team of three in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

Charu is based in Singapore, responsible for offering thematic-based investment strategies for the company's global clients, with a focus on macro themes, forex, commodities and equities across Southeast Asia, Japan, India and the US.

Charu joined Saxo Markets from Continuum Economics, where she has spent more than 6 years as Lead Economist, Asia, focusing on India and Indonesia, as well as other ASEAN economies. Prior to that, she was Lead Analyst at CRISIL Global Research & Analytics, the world's largest and top-ranked provider of high-end research and risk solutions. Previously, she has served Evalueserve as Research Lead for 4 years.

Adam Reynolds, APAC CEO, Saxo Markets, commented: “We are thrilled to welcome Charu in the Singapore office, joining Jessica Amir and Redmond Wong to bring an incredible wealth of knowledge, experience and great energy to the teams in APAC. As we welcome more clients to Saxo in the region, we can now provide them with more timely, relevant and actionable market insights and macro trading ideas with a regional flavour and local lens, in addition to the great insights from our global SaxoStrats team.”

"We have seen an increase in demand for timely and relevant market analysis from our growing pool of clients in Asia Pacific. We are happy to have Jessica, Redmond and Charu in the team now to add even more local relevance and insights on macro themes and global asset classes for the clients,” said Steen Jakobsen, Saxo’s Chief Economist and Chief Investment Officer.

Based on the information on Saxo Markets' LinkedIn Profile, Saxo Markets Singapore now has a total headcount of 56, increasing 2% over the last 6 months. Whereas, the figure has dropped 8% compared to that of one year ago. Across all its functional departments, the headcount of sales sector ranks the top, followed by the marketing sector. And the working force of the marketing department has risen 33% over the past 6 months. This signals that the company may be eyeing on market expansion in the coming years.