Lyxor Asset Management has appointed Kunjal Shah as senior investment professional.
Shah will be based in New York and will be in charge of locally supervising the portfolio management and hedge fund research teams.
He brings 14 years of experience in hedge fund manager selection, due diligence and monitoring to his role at Lyxor.
Shah joins Lyxor from Arden Asset Management, where he was partner and managing director. He was responsible for manager selection, due diligence and developing customised investment guidelines for Arden’s credit and multi strategy managed accounts.
Previously, Shah was a director and co-head of hedge fund credit risk management for the Americas at Deutsche Bank. Shah was responsible for a team of nineteen that reviewed Deutsche Bank’s trading with hedge funds. Prior to Deutsche Bank he was an integral member of the hedge fund credit team at Goldman Sachs in New York, where he led due diligence and monitoring of hedge funds.
