CHICAGO (HedgeWorld.com)–Holly Liss and Philip Ruffat have joined the sales team for Citigroup in its Chicago institutional futures office.
The Chicago sales office now totals 50 employees with a diverse client base that now is more focused on forging prime brokerage relationships with hedge funds after working with a number of hedge funds that use futures. Officials there are also actively developing a cross-netting product that would help attract hedge fund clients.
Ms. Liss has been in the industry since 1987 and has maintained a focus on interest rate options strategies. She is a chartered market technician and has provided market commentary on a regular basis to CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, TV Tokyo and Reuters.