Alexandre Voitenok has joined Acadian Asset Management as Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager.
Reporting to David Kane, Director, Long/Short Equity Strategies, Voitenok will be responsible both for researching long/short strategies and managing long/short portfolios. He was previously a portfolio manager at Gartmore Investment Management.
Acadian has been managing long/short assets since 2002 and currently has around $1.2 billion of these assets under management across ten strategies. The firm’s most recent long/short strategy is the Global Leveraged Market Neutral Equity Portfolio, launched on November 1, 2010.
John Chisholm (pictured), Chief Investment Officer of Acadian, says: “We are pleased to welcome Alexandre to our long/short team. Our structured and disciplined investment process is well suited to add value in our long/short equity strategies, and the addition of Alexandre will reinforce an already strong team and further enhance our ability to serve clients.”