People: UBS appoints head of QIS structuring Americas

Chuard joined from MerQube where he stayed for five months as head of products in charge of creating and distributing products, and commercialising ‘large scale and highly available systems and next generation technology driven indices’.  He was responsible for building ‘momentum and grow’ for the firm as well as contributing to bring new ideas to market in the quantitative, volatility, asset allocation and linear spaces. Prior to MerQube, Chuard was head of instit