Pemberton, an alternative credit specialist, has appointed Olivier Renault as Portfolio Manager and Head of Risk Sharing Strategy. Renault brings over 20 years of experience in structured credit, securitisation and bank capital finance. At Pemberton, he will be responsible for leading its new Risk Sharing Strategy, which sees Pemberton broaden its offering into yet another attractive area of alternative credit.   Pemberton’s new strategy will invest in junior tranches of loan portfolios originated and serviced by banks. Banks execute these transactions to free up lending capacity and regulatory capital. The asset class has grown significantly in the past few years

Wellington Management (Wellington) has expanded its Alternative Investments platform through the hiring of the investment team of Shelter Haven Capital Management (Shelter Haven), a market neutral, long/short equity manager that primarily focuses on small and mid-cap companies in the technology, media, telecom and consumer sectors. The terms of the expansion have not been disclosed.   Shelter Haven was founded in 2017 by Jerry Kochanski, an experienced alternatives portfolio manager, and currently oversees approximately USD350 million in client assets across separate accounts and commingled funds. Shelter Haven’s team of five investment professionals includes Hedge Fund Analysts Ross Hammer and Michael Yuan,

MFS Investment Management (MFS) has appointed Natasha van der Linde as director of Benelux institutional sales. Van der Linde will be responsible for driving the growth of MFS’ Benelux institutional business. She will focus on MFS’ broad range of fixed income and equity capabilities to Benelux institutions, including local governments, corporate pension funds, charities, insurance companies, fiduciary managers, and consultants. With 15 years’ industry experience, van der Linde joins from NN Investment Partners (formerly known as ING Investment Management), where she most recently served as client relationship manager and business development manager. She held a number of roles at NN

Global alternative investment manager Wafra Inc has promoted Adel A Alderbas to Chief Investment Officer (CIO). Alderbas will work closely with Chief Executive Officer Fawaz Al-Mubaraki to oversee the firm’s investment activities and execute Wafra’s vision to deliver investment solutions that provide long-term prosperity for asset owners around the world. Alderbas is a 15-year veteran of Wafra, during which time he has overseen many of the firm’s key strategic and core investment initiatives, serving most recently as Deputy CIO. He will oversee all alternatives and liquid markets transactions including strategic partnerships, real assets, real estate, private equity and venture capital

BTIG has appointed Bradford Ainslie as a Managing Director within the firm’s Institutional Equities business. He will report to Richard J Blank Jr, Managing Director and Head of Global Equities at BTIG. Ainslie brings over 20 years of industry experience to the firm. Prior to BTIG, he was Managing Partner and President at The Brightwood Group. Previously, Ainslie was an Executive Managing Director and Head of Global Markets at The Reorient Group and an Executive Managing Director and Head of the Asia Equities Sales Trading Desk at Cantor Fitzgerald in Hong Kong.  Earlier in his career, he was an Equities

Active asset manager J O Hambro Capital Management (JOHCM) and its impact investment arm Regnan have appointed Ed Geall as Senior Research Analyst – within the Regnan Insight and Advisory Centre. Geall will be be a key contributor to thematic research, supporting the recently hired teams in Water and Waste and Impact Solutions teams. Geall most recently served as a Thematic Research Analyst at Newton Investment Management. Here he was responsible for thematic sustainable research supporting a number of key investment teams. Geall will be based in London and work alongside Osh Siyaguna who relocated from Australia last year to

Okolita’s role will see him lead the firm’s global outsourced business services arm as part of IQ-EQ’s growth strategy. IQ-EQ, a service provider to the global community of alternative asset managers, has named Matt Okolita as Global Head of Outsourced Business Services. In the US, the world’s largest and fastest growing market, IQ-EQ operates across seven states and employs over 550 people with plans to significantly grow this number in 2022 thanks to continued strong business growth.   Okolita previously led Greyline Partners (Greyline), a regulatory, compliance and governance consultancy which was acquired by IQ-EQ in November 2021. In this

Fulcrum Asset Management has appointed Samriddhi (Sam) Sharma, as a Responsible Investment Associate. Sharma joins from EY, where she was a Senior Consultant in sustainable finance, and will report to Matt Roberts, a Fulcrum Partner and Chair of the firm’s Responsible Investment Committee.  Sharma will be charged with supporting the firm’s ESG efforts, including its reporting and regulatory commitments for clients and industry bodies. She will be key to the ongoing programme of integrating ESG into Fulcrum’s investment process. The firm, which launched the Paris-aligned Fulcrum Climate Change fund in 2020, has been increasing its commitment to Responsible Investment over

SFOX, a digital asset prime dealer focused on helping hedge funds embrace and expand crypto trading, has added another former Wall Street executive to its senior sales team of long-term institutional investors. Chuck Lugay, who has spent more than two decades at Wall Street firms and also served as President of Security Traders Association of New York, will join SFOX as SVP of Digital Assets. Lugay has worked for leading Wall Street firms including Citadel, Clearpool Group, NASDAQ, Knight Group and Morgan Stanley. Lugay will play a leading role in the global expansion of SFOX’s business development. He is the