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SANNE has appointed Stuart Harris as Director of Global Facilities to support the ongoing enhancement of the firm’s growing services and strategic development.
Harris (pictured), will drive the strategic direction of facilities management across the 15 jurisdictions in which SANNE operates. He brings with him 30 years of experience that has included the management of multi-million-pound facility and real estate schemes, and M&A projects across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the UK.
Harris joins SANNE from FIS Global, where he was director of real estate for the EMEA region. He managed all M&A and integration projects covering 77
Sycomore AM has appointed Brice Prunas and Jessica Poon as senior global analysts. Both join the investment team, which now includes 19 professionals.
These appointments are designed to allow Sycomore to broaden its research universe to include the United States and Asia and to strengthen its expertise, notably in the IT Services & Software, Technology and Consumer Goods & Services sectors worldwide.
Prunas, 43, has close to 20 years’ experience in the analysis of listed companies and has developed recognised expertise in IT Services & Software and Technology as a whole. After serving as a European Equity analyst at
Trium Capital has appointed Donald Pepper as co-head of the firm Capital alongside co-founder Shenan Dhanani.
With a career spanning over 30 years, Pepper has a wealth of hedge fund and alternative UCITS fund experience, including time with Goldman Sachs Prime Brokerage Sales, and Merrill Lynch as managing director of Prime Brokerage for EMEA. In this role, Pepper worked on the launch of the MLIS UCITS platform in 2007.
Pepper moved to the “buy side” in 2008 when he became head of alternatives at New Star and, upon its acquisition, head of hedge funds at Henderson Global Investors. In
Alternative UCITS continued on their path of steady gains in Septmeber, with the LuxHedge Global Index advancing 0.27 per cent during the month to take its YTD return to 1.60 per cent.
The heterogeneity of different funds in the universe remains very large with a largest fund return at +9.25 per cent and a worst return of -7.20 per cent last month. Roughly two-thirds of Alternative UCITS funds posted positive results in September.
Performance was led by Equity Hedge funds with the LuxHedge Equity Long/Short Europe UCITS index gaining 1.12 per cent (+3.12 per cent YTD) and the LuxHedge
By Richard L Shamos (pictured), Sadis & Goldberg – As traditional investment fund strategies have run into increasing competition, investor appetite for boutique or alternative investment strategies in the United States (US) continues to grow.
Cross border allocations continue to offer a unique opportunity for both investors and managers alike, as such allocations enable investors to reach managers with an outlook that differs from local managers, and likewise enable managers outside the US to access the large institutional investors in the US and expand their product offerings. In this piece, we explore the primary legal considerations and strategies for European
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has named Brett Redfearn (pictured), as Director of the agency’s Division of Trading and Markets.
The SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets establishes and maintains standards for fair, orderly, and efficient markets. The division oversees the major securities market participants and infrastructure including, among others, broker-dealers, self-regulatory organisations (including stock exchanges, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, and clearing agencies), alternative trading systems, and transfer agents.
“Brett’s extensive markets experience and his longstanding, active engagement with investors, financial services firms, exchanges, and the SEC make him exceptionally well
Crestbridge has strengthened its Jersey Management Company (ManCo) with the hire of Gunther Thumann, a former economist for the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC. Thumann joins as an adviser and will focus on developing the Jersey ManCo from a strategic perspective.
Thumann was recently appointed as the chairman of Jersey Finance and has previously worked as chief executive and chairman of the board of Brevan Howard Capital Management; he brings a breadth of experience and connections across the finance industry in both Jersey and beyond, which will benefit the business’ ManCo clients and Crestbridge as a whole.
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Quincy Data has adopted Enyx’s nxFeed solution, an ultra-low latency market data distribution system, as the sole provider of full FPGA feed handlers to power its Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service.
“I’m proud of Enyx’s long time relationship with Quincy Data and our shared commitment to technical excellence and the importance of transparency when bringing new solutions to market,” says Enyx Managing Director and Co-Founder Laurent de Barry (pictured). “We work hard to provide innovating solutions for tomorrow’s technical challenges. Our nxFeed solution will guide Quincy Data toward the future as one of the industry’s leading market data provider”.
Red Deer, a financial technology company focused on enhancing the performance of active investment managers, has formed a strategic partnership with Instinet Europe Limited to provide an integrated solution to manage research inducement, consumption, valuation, payment and commission management under the new MiFID II regime.
Red Deer’s research valuation management solution will attribute, forecast, track and manage budgets for research funding and consumption, integrating with Instinet’s RQ Connect application within its research payment and commission management platform, Plazma, to provide a seamless end-to-end research valuation and payments process.
Luke Oubridge (pictured), CEO Red Deer, says: “A number of Red
Axioma has appointed Blake Grossman to the company’s Board of Directors.
“We are delighted to welcome Blake to the Board of Directors of Axioma and we look forward to benefiting from his extensive experience, knowledge and insights,” says William Guttman, Chairman.
Grossman says: “The development of Barclays Global Investors as the leading systematically-based investment firm was achieved by a front-to-back integration of investment systems, along with extensive application of technology, to drive scale and substantial growth in AUM.
“I see the same vision at Axioma, which is redefining the landscape with flexible, enterprise-wide risk and equity solutions that
