Man Group plc (‘Man’), the global alternative investment manager has appointed Ravi Chari as co-Head of Foreign Exchange at AHL, its systematic managed futures manager.

Chari has a 12-year career in systematic trading at hedge funds. He joins Man from IKOS Asset Management, where he headed the group’s Futures and FX funds. Prior to joining IKOS in January 2010, Chari was a Portfolio Manager at Millennium Partners, running FX strategies. He spent five years with DKR Capital before joining Millennium and prior to that he was at Caxton Associates for two years.
 
Tim Wong (pictured), Chief Executive of AHL, says: “We are pleased to be strengthening the team at AHL with someone who has such a wealth of experience in systematic trading as Ravi. I look forward to working with him.”
 
Ravi holds a Ph.D. in probability theory from Michigan State University.