Gerard Minack   Gerard Minack Director Gerard has been analysing, forecasting and advising on financial markets since 1987. His focus is the fundamental factors that usually drive investment performance: valuation, currency, monetary policy and the economic cycle. Gerard retired from Morgan Stanley in May 2013. He had been the global cross-asset strategist and before that Morgan Stanley’s global developed market equity strategist. Earlier in his career Gerard worked at ABN AMRO and BZW (both investment banks); Syntec Economic Services, an independent research provider; and in government.