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Eventus Systems, a global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, has appointed Jeff Bolke as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).
Alternative asset management firm Hayfin Capital Management (Hayfin) has appointed Marc Chowrimootoo as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager within its private credit business.
In this role, Chowrimootoo will work closely with the investment team on sourcing and analysing investment opportunities, as well as portfolio management, across the firm’s private credit strategies.
Chowrimootoo brings a wealth of experience in leveraged finance as well as long-established relationships within the European private equity community, complementing Hayfin’s origination and portfolio management capabilities and its sponsor relationships. He joins from Goldman Sachs, where he was a Managing Director in the European Leveraged Finance
BTIG Limited has appointed Andrew Vass, a seasoned cross-asset sales and trading specialist, as a Managing Director the firm’s Institutional Equities business in London.
Vass will report directly to Luke Hodges, BTIG Limited’s Chief Operating Officer and Head of Equities.
At BTIG, Vass will be focused on continuing to develop the firm’s cross-asset trading capabilities and coverage of global hedge funds and other institutional investor clients in London.
Blank Rome has appointed David E Kronenberg as an energy finance partner in the Finance, Restructuring, and Bankruptcy practice group, and a member of the firm’s cross-practice Energy Industry Team.
Kroenenbrg, who will be based in the firm’s Washington DC, and Cincinnati, Ohio, offices, will focus his practice on the intersection of energy hedging, financing, and bankruptcy law, representing energy companies, financial institutions, hedge funds, and private equity firms.
Kroenenbrg joins from Sidley Austin where he served as counsel in the firm’s energy group.
Linedata, a global provider of asset management and credit technology data and services, has added to its existing footprint in North America with a new office in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Linedata will provide a broad range of services across all the business lines, including Global Services, Asset Management, and Lending & Leasing.
Linedata expects to scale the Charlotte office rapidly with talents and experts across all the Business Lines and leverage local talent ranging from Fund Accountants, IT engineers, Product Developers, Cloud resources, and QA to complement the global resource pool.
Two members of Goldman Sachs quant team have left the business to a pursue crypto and hedge fund opportunities, according to Tittle Press.
Chris Perez, former managing director of market risk and quantitative analysis at Goldman Sachs in New York has left to take up the role of head of market risk at BlockFi, a Jersey-City-based provider of crypto wealth management products backed by Galaxy Digital.
Sid Chaturvedi, executive director of systematic equity trading at Goldman’s London office, has left to become lead portfolio manager at the Millennium hedge fund in Dubai.
DOMOS FS has added Hugues Chabanis – Vice President of Innovation at SimCorp – to its Board of Directors.
Chabanis is an expert in the Alternatives investment space, with two decades spent designing, building, selling, and implementing alternatives solutions across the globe.
Over the past seven years, he has led a tailored team that has built up the alternative investment capabilities of SimCorp’s Dimension platform. This culminated in the creation of the first true integrated IBOR and ABOR across Public and Private Markets. Under his supervision, SimCorp Dimension onboarded innovative and disruptive technology, partners and workflows allowing SimCorp Limited Partners Clients
Michael Hunstad, PhD, Northern Trust Asset Management’s (NTAM) head of quantitative strategies since 2018, is expanding his management responsibilities to include NTAM’s index equity and tax-advantaged equity teams, both of which are grounded in the systematic approach that powers the firm’s quantitative processes.
Hunstad has concurrently been appointed a member of NTAM’s Executive Group.
Since Hunstad has led the quantitative strategies team, it has grown from USD14 billion to USD36.9 billion in equity assets under management, as of 31 December, 2021. NTAM has been among the industry’s leading equity solution providers for more than two decades, during which time it
RFA, a specialist IT provider to the alternative investment sector, is continuing its plans for EMEA expansion by launching a presence in the French capital, Paris.
Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management has its sights set on establishing a European presence for its hedge fund business, according to a report in the Financial Times.
The Toronto-based firm’s Brookfield Hedge Fund Solutions Advisors, a USD1 billion multi-strategy unit trading areas such as equity market neutral and event-driven, has, until now, based all of its trading teams in New York.
According to the report though, the firm is now actively recruiting for a European team which will be operate out of a new office in London.
