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BTON Financial has appointed fixed income and electronic trading expert, Andrew Bernard, as Non-Executive Director. Bernard joins BTON’s advisory board from Tradeweb, where he held a variety of senior positions over the past 17 years, including MD, Head of of Asia and as an MD in the London office. Prior to Tradeweb he served as Head of European Government Bond Sales and as Principal of the Global Leveraged Group for Bank of America, and Director of UK sales at Société Générale. Bernard will play a key role in shaping the direction of the company and delivering BTON Financial’s plans to bring
The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association, the professional body for the global alternative investment industry, has Elizabeth Burton, CAIA, Chief Investment Officer, Hawaii Employees’ Retirement System, and William Ma, CFA, CAIA, Chief Investment Officer at Noah Holdings, have been elected to serve on CAIA’s Board of Directors.“Elizabeth and William are each outstanding additions to our board, and I join my colleagues in welcoming them and looking forward to all that they will contribute to our efforts,” says Valerie Sill, CFA, CAIA Chair of the CAIA Board of Directors and CEO of Dupont Capital Management. “Elizabeth’s perspective as an allocator
Fulcrum Asset Management (Fulcrum) has appointed Tetsuaki Take as Head of Fulcrum Japan, working closely with Fulcrum’s senior adviser in Japan, Akio Ohtsuka.Take will be responsible for enhancing Fulcrum’s presence in the Japanese market and building on the company’s strong relationship with Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd (SuMi), Japan’s largest trust bank, with whom Fulcrum recently partnered to launch the Real Assets Optimal Fund.
Prior to joining Fulcrum, Take was an investment director at SuMi TRUST. He has also worked as a product specialist for Allianz Global Investors and was a portfolio manager for UBS Global Asset Management. Tetsuaki has
Marathon Asset Management (Marathon), a global credit investment manager, has appointed Ana Jelenkovic as Director and Sovereign Strategist.
Arcesium, a global financial technology and professional services firm delivering solutions to hedge funds, banks, and institutional asset managers, has opened an office in London.The firm also announced that Chris Barrow has been appointed as the Head of Business Development for Europe, to be based in the new London office.
Chris has more than 20 years of experience in law, banking, and financial technology. He started his career as a lawyer, specialising in banking and capital markets, and then moved into business development roles focusing on hedge funds and asset managers. Chris has led the global sales teams for
Enfusion, a provider of cloud-based investment management software, has appointed Lorelei Skillman as Chief Marketing Officer. With over 20 years of transformative marketing experience in the financial services sector, Skillman will lead Enfusion’s global marketing and communications initiatives, working alongside the organisation’s executive leadership team to expand and evolve its brand, footprint, and bottom-line impact.
Skillman’s appointment is part of the ongoing expansion of Enfusion’s executive leadership team with other recent new hires including Thomas Kim joining as CEO in March and Julie Nagle, Steven Bachert and Steve Dorton joining as Chief People Officer, Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Financial
Brevan Howard, a high-profile global macro hedge fund manager founded by Alan Howard, has strengthened its global business development team with a quartet of appointments in the US, Europe and Asia, with hires from well-known hedge fund firms including Exodus Point Capital Management and Bluecrest.
Natalie Smith has joined in New York as head of strategy, with an investor-focused mandate within directional and relative value macro investing. Smith joins from Commonwealth Asset Management.
Peter Hornick, who was previously at Exodus Point Capital Management and Millennium Management, has been named head of business development for Brevan Howard Alpha Strategies (US) in
Alternative asset manager Trium Capital has hired experienced hedge fund manager Tej Johar. Johar, who joins Trium after extensive experience running successful event-driven strategies for a range of top tier hedge funds, will be responsible for developing and overseeing Trium’s event-driven equity strategies, as the firm continues to broaden its range of uncorrelated solutions.
Johar joins from Man GLG, where he ran a European long/short event-driven equity portfolio. Before joining Man GLG, he was CIO of Broad Bridge Capital, where he also ran an event-driven equity alternative strategy. Prior to this role, he spent almost three years at BlueCrest Capital Management.
SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, has appointed Rob Friend as Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately.Friend’s 24 years of international financial services experience will be instrumental in scaling SteelEye’s business operations as it prepares to support increasing global demand for holistic, data-centric compliance solutions.
Since its launch in October 2017, SteelEye has gained more than seventy clients and now has a team of fifty serving clientele across seven countries. As the company plans for expansion into North America and Asia Pacific, and a Series-B fundraise to support further growth, Friend joins to scale SteelEye’s operations – optimising internal
PineBridge Investments (PineBridge), a global asset manager focused on active, high conviction investing, has appointed Brian McCarthy as Chief Risk Officer, Europe.McCarthy joins PineBridge Investments Ireland and will oversee all aspects of risk management in Europe. In his role McCarthy will ensure the effective operation of PineBridge’s risk management infrastructure, covering PineBridge Funds (UCITS and AIFs, across fixed income, equities, multi-asset and private market/alternatives), as well as oversight of the firm’s operational risk management.
McCarthy is based in PineBridge’s Dublin office, and will report to Tracie Ahern, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Risk Officer. He will also assume the
