Santander’s alternative investment group has appointed Camilla Crowe as vice-president for consultant relations, based in London and responsible for marketing the group’s Optimal funds to
Santander’s alternative investment group has appointed Camilla Crowe as vice-president for consultant relations, based in London and responsible for marketing the group’s Optimal funds to consultants and pension funds in the UK and Europe.
Optimal, a Swiss-based asset management company wholly owned by Santander Asset Management, offers a choice of 15 funds of funds as well as an advisory and investment management service providing tailor-made solutions to institutional clients, and has USD9.8bn under management.
Crowe joins from BNY Mellon Asset Management in London, where she was an associate director of European consultant relations, having previously spent three years in Sydney building Mellon’s Australian asset management business. She has also worked for Newton Fund Managers and Hill Samuel Asset Management in London.
‘Optimal is fully committed to offering a full range of alternative investment solutions to Europe’s broad-based pension funds,’ says Toby Gauvain, Optimal’s Geneva-based managing director in charge of global business development. ‘With her extensive experience in the consultant-driven market, we expect Camilla to play a key role in developing our business.’
Crowe says: ‘The investment team at Optimal benefits from nearly 20 years experience in managing hedge funds, access to world class managers, researchers based in Geneva, London, New York and Madrid, and the backing of one of the world’s largest financial institutions.’
