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Guy Coughlan

Guy Coughlan

Guy Coughlan is a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan where he serves as the Global Head of LifeMetrics and Co-head of the European Pension Advisory Group. As a specialist in ALM and risk, Guy has been involved in advising corporations, pension funds, and insurers on strategic risk management, asset-liability management, debt management and capital structure. For the past three years he has been focusing on pension ALM as part of the Pension Solutions Team and lead the development of LifeMetrics, an open-source platform for longevity risk management that includes longevity indices.

Guy Coughlan joined JPMorgan in 1994, initially within the Fixed Income Research department.

Here he worked on projects involving optimal investment strategies, the development of RiskMetrics, and built JPMorgan's FourFifteen risk analysis tool. In 1996 he moved to head the newly formed Risk Management Products group, which was later spun off from JPMorgan as The RiskMetrics Group. In 1998 he founded JPMorgan's ALM Advisory team.

Before joining J.P. Morgan Guy Coughlan worked for a major international oil company. Guy holds a BSc (Honors) degree from the University of Western Australia, a DPhil (PhD) in theoretical physics from Oxford University in the UK and an MBA. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Corporate Treasury Management.

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