Atrato Advisors,a USD3 billion alternative investment advisory firm, has hired Andy Vantine to lead Credit and Event-Driven strategy research.
Vantine had previously been Co-Director of Research at Chi-Rho Financial, the Atlanta-based multi-manager investment specialist. Vantine will report to Michael Boensch, Atrato’s longtime Director of Research.
The addition of Vantine signals Atrato’s continued investment in its team amidst significant growth this year. The firm, led by partners Brian Reich and Janna Sobolev, continues to bolster its position as a high-touch boutique for family offices, wealth management platforms, and institutions with unique alternative investment programs. In January, Dynasty Financial Partners and iCapital Network engaged Atrato to support their respective hedge fund platforms. The firm has also added a pair of family office mandates in the first half of 2016.
“We are beyond thrilled to have Andy join our firm. We’ve known him for a number of years now and he’s going to contribute tremendously to our research effort,” says Reich. He continued, “The diversity of opportunities we are seeing across the event-driven, distressed, and structured credit landscape demands that we have extremely solid and nuanced understanding of these strategies, and Andy is the right person to lead our research in these areas.”
Alongside the appointment of Vantine, Atrato has also made some other organisational announcements. Danny Santos, Atrato’s Head of Operational Due Diligence, has assumed the additional role of Chief Compliance Officer. Maria Razaq, who joined Atrato as an Analyst in 2015, will move into a newly created Portfolio Analytics role.
