Aquila Capital is expanding its advisory board with the appointment of Daniel Just (pictured), chairman of the executive board at Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK), Germany’s largest public pension fund. Just has chaired the executive board at BVK since 2013 and previously headed BVK’s asset management division.   Under his tenure the pension fund established real asset investments as an integral part of its portfolio allocation and was one of the first signatories to the UN principles for responsible investment (UN PRI).   Bayerische Versorgungskammer is the competence and service centre for occupational and communal pension schemes. As a public authority of

Fixed income manager BlueBay Asset Management has appointed Mark Bathgate as portfolio manager to its investment grade team. Reporting to Mark Dowding (pictured), partner and co-head of investment grade, Bathgate’s experience in macro-risk-taking around interest rates and government policy will be used across all strategies in the team, providing investment input at a macro level.   BlueBay’s investment grade team invests across sovereign and corporate debt in long only and hedge fund strategies and manages in excess of USD24 billion.   Dowding says: “In the current market environment, investment fundamentals have given way to macro impacts for the large part

Alternative investment management firm PAAMCO has appointed hedge fund veteran Basil Williams as managing director. During the next year, he will transition into head of portfolio management, succeeding David Weinberger who plans to retire in mid-2017.   Williams, who was most recently co-chief investment officer of Mariner Investment Group, cites the innovation at PAAMCO as the key driver for him in joining the firm.   "Whether it is providing alternative absolute return portfolios, solving an LDI challenge or constructing bespoke completion portfolios for traditional asset class allocations, PAAMCO has become the go-to firm for the world's most sophisticated institutional investors,”

Man Group has introduced a new senior management structure alongside a number of internal promotions, following the naming of Luke Ellis as chief executive officer (CEO). The internal management changes will reallocate certain responsibilities, in line with the growth and diversification of the business.   Jonathan Sorrell’s role as president of Man Group has developed to include a number of areas across the business and the intention is that he will step down as the chief financial officer (CFO), following an orderly transition to the new CFO.   Under his new remit as president, Sorrell will focus alongside Ellis (pictured)