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Gracie Asset Management (Gracie), a long/short credit manager founded in 2004, has promoted Kyle Fitzgerald to the role of Portfolio Manager for the firm’s credit funds, effective 15 January, 2020.
Fitzgerald will help oversee the fund’s investment activities with emphasis on the energy, basic material, and industrial sectors and will report to Chief Investment Officer James Palmisciano. He will also join the firm’s Investment Committee.
Fitzgerald joined Gracie in 2008 as an analyst and holds a master’s degree in accounting with honours from the McCombs Business School at the University of Texas. He previously served as an analyst on the
Kempen Capital Management (Kempen) has made two new appointments to its Sustainable Equity strategy team.
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Darien Group, a branding and communications agency serving alternative investment managers, has appointed two executives, Lauren De Paola and Timothy Leung, and promoted of Olena Moiseeva, to partner.
These appointments significantly expand the firm’s service offerings, adding deeper expertise on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and Investor Relations advisory to existing strengths in brand development, capital raise materials, website development, and video production services.
“Lauren and Tim’s capabilities, pedigrees, and standards of excellence are transformative to Darien Group’s development and maturation,” says Charlie Ittner, Managing Partner of Darien Group. “In our first five years, we established our firm as the
Benjamin B Allensworth has rejoined Willkie Farr & Gallagher as counsel. Allensworth will be a member of the Firm’s Asset Management Group, focusing his practice on advising investment advisers, private funds, hybrid regulated fund products (including business development companies), and broker-dealers on regulatory, compliance and transactional matters, and will be based in Washington, DC.
He previously served as Managing Director & Counsel for Tax and Finance at the Managed Funds Association (MFA), the leading industry trade organisation of the global hedge fund industry, for 13 years. Prior to that, he was an associate in Willkie’s Washington office.
“Ben has
Fulcrum Asset Management has promoted Matthew Wright, Director of Sales and Marketing, to Partner.
Wright has been with the multi-asset boutique since June 2015 and has led the drive to expand the UK wholesale business and international distribution across Europe and Japan among other territories. Wright has 25 years’ experience in the industry including senior roles at Fidelity, UBS and Carmignac.
Wright says: “I am truly honoured and delighted to become a Partner at this pivotal point in Fulcrum’s development. Fulcrum is not a traditional retail asset manager with advertised distribution, rather a professional outsourced asset manager curating bespoke return
Genesis, a specialists in digital currency prime brokerage services, has appointed Dr Derar Islim to the newly-created position of Chief Operating Officer (COO).
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BTIG Limited has made two seniors hires, Neil Roberts and Matt Austin, in its Institutional Equities division. Roberts joins BTIG as an Equity Sales Trader and a Managing Director, while Austin joins the firm as an Equity Trader and Director. In their new roles at the firm, they will be based in BTIG’s London office.
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Artemis Investment Management has appointed Iain MacPherson as a sales director in the firm’s Distribution team, effective March 2021. MacPherson will report to Adam Gent, Head of intermediary sales.
MacPherson will join Artemis from Comgest, where since April 2018 he has been responsible for intermediary sales in London, Dublin and the Channel Islands in both the wholesale advisory and discretionary markets. Before Comgest, Iain held various sales roles at Standard Life Investments, which he joined in 2009 as a graduate trainee.
Gent says: “We are delighted to have attracted someone of Iain’s experience, reputation and talent. He will help
The Citco group of companies (Citco) has opened new offices in Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the international finance centre in the United Arab Emirates, after increasing its assets under administration (AUA) in the region last year by 400 per cent to approximately USD125 billion. Citco’s decision to establish a base in ADGM follows a marked rise in calls for asset servicing, administration, banking and governance services from sovereign wealth funds and managers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region last year. Citco will partner with ADGM to create a sustainable, fully-integrated ecosystem for the investment management industry,
Sionic, a specialist financial services consulting firm, whose clients include private equity, hedge and fund administrators, has appointed Mark Humphries as its new Chairman. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager
