Paul Squires, Independent
Paul Squires was until recently the Head of equities trading: EMEA and APAC for Invesco having also previously managed the Henley Fixed Interest dealing team. He joined Invesco in 2018 from AXA Investment Managers where he held a number of positions, culminating in becoming the Global Head of Trading and Securities Financing in 2015, a global team of over 70 professionals responsible for all multi asset – cash and derivatives -execution (equities, fixed income, FX and money market securities) and securities lending.
Paul started his investment career as a UK equity dealer at Mercury Asset Management in 1993 before joining Sun Life Investment Management (which later became AXA Investment Management) in 1996 where he went on to trade European equities and fixed income, setting up the London FI dealing desk. He has been Co-Chair of the Investment Management Working Group of FIX, a non-executive Director of Smartpool and was a founding Director of PLATO (rejoined with Invesco in 2019).
He has an honours degree in Business Economics from Reading University and holds both the SFA Registered representative dealing certificate and the IMC.