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ZEDRA has appointed Wim Ritz to the newly created role of global head of funds. Wim will be based at ZEDRA’s offices in Luxembourg.Read the full story at Private Equity Wire…
Specialist fixed income manager, BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay), has appointed Adam Phillips in a newly created role as Head of Developed Markets Special Situations.Based in London, Phillips reports to Mark Dowding, Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and will be responsible for building out BlueBay’s capabilities within stressed and distressed credit where he will be leading the launches of new special situations investment strategies that will be established in the coming months.
The new strategies will complement BlueBay’s existing event driven credit strategy, which Adam will also be managing, alongside Duncan Farley and Tim Leary.
The team believes there is
Ninety One has appointed Cathy Gibson as its Global Head of Trading. Ninety One says the newly-created London-based role will bolster the firm’s existing trading capabilities and trading infrastructure.Gibson will join Ninety One in the new year, and will report into John McNab co-Chief Investment Officer (co-CIO).
Gibson joins Ninety One from Royal London Asset Management, where she was most recently Head of Dealing. She has a strong track record of building successful, sustainable trading teams that are fully integrated into the investment process. Prior to Royal London, Gibson held senior positions at Deutsche Asset Management and Pioneer Investment
Maitland, a global corporate services and administration firm, has made two senior hires: Neil Montgomery as Senior Manager – Corporate Services Compliance; and Alun Josias as Head of Finance – Corporate and Manco Services.Montgomery’s appointment is a promotion from his previous role as Global Tax Reporting Manager at Maitland. In his new capacity, he will be responsible for the Compliance Function of the Corporate and Manco Services business unit, in addition to being the compliance country lead for the Corporate Services division in South Africa.
Josias will be responsible for the finance function of Maitland’s Corporate and Manco Services business
BTIG announced has appointed Daniel Ryan as a Managing Director in the firm’s Outsource Trading division. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Geneva-based specialist asset manager Quaero Capital has hired Eric Daniel as Fund Manager. Supported by two dedicated analysts, he is in charge of managing the Global Convertible Bonds strategy whichlaunched in May. Prior to joining Quaero Capital, Daniel was a Partner with London-based alternative asset manager Tyndaris, where he co-managed a similar fund.
Daniel has 22 years of experience in convertible bonds at several leading global investment banks such as Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank. He launched the continental European branch of KBC Financial Products in 2000. He was also Head of Derivatives and Convertible Bond Sales at Citigroup in
Somerset Capital Management (Somerset Capital), has appointed Mark Williams as co-manager of the Somerset Emerging Markets Dividend Growth Fund. Williams joins Somerset Capital from Liontrust Investment Partners, where he has been Head of Asia Pacific Equities and the Manager of the Liontrust Asia Income Fund since March 2012. He has over 27 years’ portfolio management experience and will take over management of the Dividend Growth Fund on 1 November 2020.
Kumar Pandit will co-manage the GBP486 million Somerset Emerging Markets Dividend Growth Fund with Mark Williams. Pandit is a Senior Partner at Somerset Capital having joined the investment team in
Ideal Prediction (Ideal), a trading analysis and data science company for the capital markets, has appointed Jonathan Fieldman and Geoff Jones to its Advisory Board.
Fieldman says: “Having spent the past 16 years at Broadway Technology leading the transformation of FICC electronic trading, I have witnessed the need for increased assurance and attestation to ethical behaviour. With its leadership, depth of knowledge, and proven financial analytics solutions, Ideal Prediction is perfectly positioned to lead the evolution of the supervisory function and first line of defence.”
Jones says: “As someone with an acute awareness of the personal risks associated with managing
BMLL Technologies, a provider of data and analytics services to banks and brokers, to asset managers, global exchange groups, hedge funds and quants, has added two Sales Directors to its team.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
The Managed Funds Association, the global alternative investment industry trade group, has elected and appointed eight new members to its board of directors.
The new members are Eric Epstein, president, managing member, Davidson Kempner Capital Management; Gil Raviv, global general counsel, Millennium Management; David Zirin, chief operating officer at Pentwater Capital Management; and Peter Cherecwich, executive vice president, Northern Trust – along with Natalie Horton, global head of capital markets financing and Americas head, global markets financing at UBS; Steve Meyer, executive vice president, head of global wealth management services at SEI; Cedric Pauwels, North American head of equities and
