Huw van Steenis (born 27 September 1969) is a British financier and Vice Chair at management consultancy firm Oliver Wyman. He was formerly the Senior Adviser to the CEO at UBS. He also chaired UBS' Sustainable Finance Committee.
He formerly served as Senior Adviser to Mark Carney, the Governor of Bank of England where he led a review on the future of finance. Before, he was Global Head of Strategy at Schroders, a British multinational asset management company, and Global Coordinator Banks and Diversified Financials within the Equity Research Division at investment bank Morgan Stanley. He is noted for his bearish forecasts prior to the global financial crisis and Eurozone crisis, and views on the reshaping of the investment industry.
Education
Van Steenis was educated at Trinity College, Oxford where he graduated in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. In 1994 he went to INSEAD Business School where he obtained an MBA.
Career
In 2004, he coined the term the "Asset Management Barbell", "which predicted the predicted the bulk of assets would be invested in low-cost passive or index-hugging products such as ETFs, with a small but significant amount in high margin" and "high alpha products, with intensifying pressure on the middle ground of more conventional asset management"
