John-Paul Smith joined Deutsche Bank in 2010 as the GEM equity strategist-with 28 years of experience in both sell side strategy and fund management. Prior to Deutsche John- Paul worked in asset management, most recently as a global strategist and previously as the head of a large GEM equity team from 2001-05, achieving top decile performance and a rise in assets under management from less than $2bn to around $11bn. From 1995-2000 John-Paul was a Russia and EMEA strategist, when he was widely credited as one of the few sell-side analysts to predict the 1998 Russia crisis. John-Paul has an MA in Modern History from Merton College, Oxford and an MA in East European Studies from UCL.


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