Background
He was born on October 31, 1963 in Montreal, Canada to Diane Medina and Edward Leibovitch, and was educated in Montreal.
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Richard Leibovitch
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Leibovitch has an Honors bachelor"s degree in Economics from McGill University and an The Master of Philosophy Degree in Economics from Cambridge University. He joined Gottex in September 2003 as Senior Managing Director, Chief Investment Officer. From 1985 until 1998 he worked at Justice of the Peace Morgan, starting as a foreign exchange trader and an asset and liability manager for Morgan Bank of Canada.
In 1991 he was made responsible for the United States. dollar swap book, and subsequently became head of all United States. interest rate derivatives trading, working closely with Peter Bennett and John-Paul Bailey.
From 1993 until 1995 he was Head of Trading of Morgan’s mortgage-backed securities business, and from 1995 until 1997 was responsible for the structuring and marketing of derivative products. In 1997, he moved to focus on the equities business as the Company-Head of Morgan’s North American Equity Derivatives business.
In 1998 he joined the Derivatives group in New York as the manager of the Canadian and Australian dollar swap books In 1999, Leibovitch joined Putnam Investments as Head of Derivatives.
In 2000, he was given the additional responsibility of Global Head Trading, where he oversaw the daily operations of both equity and fixed income trading.
Membership
He was a member of Putnam’s Partners and Executive Committees.
