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The London Metal Exchange (LME) has appointed Gay Huey Evans OBE as Chairman of its Board of Directors. Huey Evans will replace Sir Brian Bender when he retires from the Board in early December 2019, as previously announced.
Huey Evan’s international experience within the financial services industry includes significant commercial, risk, governance and regulatory knowledge and expertise.
LME Chief Executive Matthew Chamberlain says: “I am delighted to welcome Gay to the LME and look forward to working closely with her. Her global experience in developing policy and growing markets, combined with her deep understanding of risk, governance and regulation, will
PanXchange, an OTC physical commodity exchange and price discovery platform for products including industrial hemp and frac sand, has added senior industry executive Andy Bose to its board of advisers.
Bose will play a key role in driving important new strategic initiatives as the firm continues its rapid growth.
Bose brings extensive experience using technology innovation to develop market transparency. Most recently, he was a senior leader at S&P Global Platts, with executive responsibilities for P&L, innovation and new products serving physical commodity price markets. Bose previously held product innovation and operations roles at S&P Global’s Ratings and Market
Scout Investments, an investment management firm and affiliate of Carillon Tower Advisers, has appointed Timothy Burger, CFA, as a senior analyst on the firm’s Small Cap team.
Based in Scout’s Kansas City headquarters, Burger joins the team led by James McBride, lead portfolio manager of the Scout Small Cap Equity Strategy, and will work with the team to conduct bottom-up fundamental analysis and valuation modelling to identify opportunities within the small-cap market.
“Tim is an important addition to the Small Cap team and brings almost two decades of investment analysis experience across a spectrum of sectors and asset classes,”
Xena Exchange has launched the Xena Market Barometer, a 360-degree analytics tool that aggregates data from the biggest digital-asset exchanges and represents it in unique graphs assembled in one place.
The first eight indicators are already live and are free to use. The Xena Market Barometer combines numerous data sources and uses complicated processing algorithms to display information in an easy-to-understand format. All data sources can be divided into three categories: live trades and order books from major cryptocurrency exchanges, blockchains, and media.
The first version collects live data from Huobi, Coinbase Pro, Bitstamp, Bitfinex and can be used by
PineBridge Investments has appointed Mick Sweeney as Chief Executive Officer of PineBridge Investments Ireland, the firm’s UCITS Management Company and Alternative Investment Fund Manager.
Sweeney is based in Dublin and reports to Klaus Schuster, Head of Europe at PineBridge Investments.
In his new role, Sweeney will have governance responsibilities in support of the Management Company and will be PineBridge’s main contact with the CBI. Sweeney will also work with Schuster to drive new business lead generation and develop relationships with Ireland-based clients. He will support PineBridge as Head of the Ireland office, assuming general management and oversight of day-to-day
The Hedge Fund Association (HFA), an international nonprofit trade and nonpartisan lobbying organisation, has elected four new global directors and a new regional leader.
Rajpal Arulpragasam, Suzanne Currie, Amy Lawrence and Gary Markham will all serve three-year terms as new Global Directors, while James Stedman is the new Co-Director of HFA’s Latin America and New York Regional Chapters
“Our highly accomplished and diverse leadership team is further strengthened by HFA’s new directors as we continue to build the line-up of upcoming educational and networking events,” says Mitch Ackles, HFA President. “In addition, we recognise HFA term limits and greatly appreciate
HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, has appointed Vinay Mendiratta has joined the firm as a Managing Director. Based in Boston, Mendiratta will focus on business development with distribution partners in the US to help private clients achieve their private markets objectives.
“Over the past decade, wealth management firms have sought greater exposure to private markets for their family office, private bank, wealth management, and institutional clients, and HarbourVest has a long track record of helping them meet their clients’ private market investment objectives,” says John Toomey, Managing Director, HarbourVest Partners. “This is a critical part of our
Global regulatory compliance firm Optima Partners as appointed private equity and hedge fund adviser David Gold as the firm’s Chief Operating Officer (COO).
“Hiring David represents a significant investment in Optima’s growth,” says Optima Partners CEO Jonathan Saxton. “His role will ensure the consistent delivery of the high level of advice and service to all of our clients, as well as the continued robust growth of our firm.”
Gold says: “I am looking forward to working with our global colleagues to help Optima broaden its market leadership and drive successful outcomes for its clients, employees and other stakeholders.”
Aegon Asset Management has made two new hires to strengthen its now 14-strong global responsible investment team.
Brunno Maradei joins Aegon Asset Management as Global Head of ESG based in The Hague, the Netherlands and Julius Huttunen joins the company as Responsible Investment Manager, based in Chicago, US. Both will report into Roelie van Wijk-Russchen, Global Head of Responsible Business & Public Affairs.
Maradei joins AAM on the 1st of May from the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg where he was a Senior Investment Officer leading execution teams for project finance deals outside the European Union, focusing on climate-friendly impact
KRM22, a technology and software investment company that focuses on risk management for capital markets, has appointed Garry Jones as an independent non-executive director of the company.
Jones will replace David Ellis, Independent Non-Executive Director, who notified the Board of his intention to step down from the Board with immediate effect after being with the Company since its IPO in early 2018. Ellis is stepping down to focus on other business commitments and a relocation to the United States.
Jones has over 35 years’ experience in financial services and has been CEO of three of the largest derivatives and
