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DFG Investment Advisers (DFG), an alternative credit asset manager with approximately USD5.7 billion in assets under management, has appointed John Hwang as a Director and Senior Credit Analyst on its Leveraged Credit Team.
In this role, Hwang is responsible for analysing below-investment grade credit with a focus on leveraged loans for the Vibrant collateralised loan obligation (CLO) platform. Previously, Hwang served as a Senior Vice President at Crescent Capital Group LP.
“John is a highly accomplished senior analyst with nearly two decades of experience in leveraged credit markets,” says Volkan Kurtas, DFG’s Founder and Chief Investment Officer. “His deep
The investment team of Agilis Investment Management, a specialist multi-strategy investment manager, is to join RWC Partners.
The move will see Agilis founder Clark Fenton, along with colleagues Charles Crowson and Praveen Kanakamedala, joining RWC to form the RWC Diversified Return team.
Prior to founding Agilis, Fenton served as co-CIO of Permal Group, one of Europe’s most successful diversified fund of hedge funds. He started his career working in capital markets, primarily at Morgan Stanley.
Crowson joined Agilis from the hedge fund Mason Capital Management. Kanakamedela, who manages operations, risk and compliance for the firm, joined Fenton and Crowson from
HSBC Global Asset Management has appointed Shantini Nair as Senior Product Specialist for infrastructure debt investments in the Alternatives team.
With over 20 years’ experience in institutional asset management, Nair will focus on developing and expanding the team’s infrastructure debt product offering. She will report to Steven Ward, Global Head of Alternative Products, HSBC Global Asset Management.
Ward says: “We’re very happy to announce Shantini’s hire. Nair will play an important role in growing infrastructure debt capability. Her specialist expertise complements the rest of our team and we’re confident that she’ll be a great asset to our business.”
GPP, a prime broking, investor services and wealth solutions firm, has hired Andrew Rae-Moore to join its prime brokerage team.
Rae-Moore joins GPP from Morgan Stanley, where he has spent more than 18 years on the prime brokerage desk of its institutional equities division, rising to COO of client coverage. Before that he worked as an analyst on the bank’s international equities desk in New York.
In his new role Rae-Moore will work alongside GPP’s COO, Todd Johnson, to drive the growth of its prime brokerage business. He will be responsible for building new client relationships to support the industry’s
The Maples Group, a service provider offering clients a comprehensive range of legal, fiduciary, fund, regulatory and compliance, and entity formation and management services, has appointed Edwin Parker as Director of Business Development for the fund services business in Europe.
Parker brings over two decades of experience working with alternative and institutional asset managers and asset owners across Europe, as well as extensive knowledge of front and back office services and systems. He was most recently a Managing Director for a global investment management and investment services provider, responsible for all business and relationship development in EMEA. Prior to that,
Channel Islands independent director services business Altair has appointed Matt Wood as a director in Guernsey.
Wood will take on a pivotal role in driving forward Altair’s growth strategy in the Channel Islands as it looks to support the governance and oversight needs of a rising number of businesses across Guernsey and Jersey.
With over 20 years of financial services experience, particularly in the fund administration sector, Guernsey-based Wood joins Altair from Sanne where he was a Private Equity Director and Guernsey Country Head. Prior to that, he was Managing Director of State Street’s Alternative Investment Solutions.
Wood originally trained
Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has promoted Paul Conroy to Group Head of Real Assets and Private Debt.
In his new role, Conroy (pictured) will assume overall responsibility for the development, growth and delivery of the Group’s real assets and private debt service offerings. He succeeds Mark Wanless, who has been appointed Chief Operating Officer.
Leading a multi-jurisdictional team of over 160 real assets and private debt administration professionals, Conroy will oversee client relationship management, operations and business development across real estate, infrastructure, asset leasing and private debt.
In his previous role, Conroy was Head
Kempen Capital Management (Kempen) has appointed Eszter Vitorino Fuleky to the position of Senior Responsible Investment Advisor. Within the Responsible Investment team, she will focus predominantly on corporate governance.
Since 2010, Eszter Vitorino Fuleky (38) has worked for the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an international, independent organisation that establishes sustainability reporting guidelines for organisations and government agencies, where she held several positions. In the past few years, in the position of Head of Capital Markets Engagement, she was responsible for the relationships with stakeholders on the capital markets, ranging from stock exchanges to shareholders and asset managers.
Vitorino Fuleky
Pennington Fund, a private, non-ETF hedge fund for high net worth and institutional investors, has appointed Yusuf Yasseen as an Investment Adviser serving South Africa.
Yasseen is a financial investment professional with more than 12 years of experience in South Africa. Pennington specialises in offering tax-efficient Asian offshore investment opportunities to international clients. Yusuf Yasseen and Pennington Fund will now introduce that same offshore experience to South African HNW, institutional investors and advisors.
Caspian, a full-stack crypto trading and risk management platform for institutional investors and sophisticated traders, has appointed Bletchley Park Asset Management Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer Lewis Fellas to its board of strategic advisers.
“Lewis has multi-decade experience in trading and investment, and we’re thrilled to welcome him to our team of advisors. We are excited to have built the leading institutional crypto trading platform and adding someone of Lewis’ calibre as an advisor, with his wealth of experience, will most certainly add to our trajectory,” says Robert Dykes, CEO of Caspian. “I am particularly looking forward to Lewis’ insight into
