Gresham House, a specialist asset manager focused on alternative investment strategies, has appointed Michael Hart to the newly created role of Head of Distribution. Hart has over 20 years’ experience in both traditional and alternative asset management. Most recently he served as Global Head of Business Development at Amundi Alternative Investments. Prior to this he was Global Head of Business Development for Aberdeen Asset Management’s alternative solutions division. Michael also spent over ten years at investment consultants Bfinance. He has an in-depth understanding of investor requirements which has led to a strong network of institutional clients, sovereign wealth funds, government

Intertrust has appointed Cliff Pearce (pictured) asnted  Global Head of Capital Markets. Pearce has over 20 years’ experience working in Capital Markets with premier financial institutions and funds, originating and delivering structured finance transactions to a wide range of clients.  Pearce, who joins from the Bank of America Merrill Lynch, is replacing Robert Berry who recently retired from Intertrust.   In his new role, Pearce will oversee and build on Intertrust’s unique global offering of capital market solutions, with a strong market share in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Cayman. He will also be responsible for developing a

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed Matthew Stauffer as Managing Director and Head of Institutional Trade Processing, effective 30 June, 2017. Stauffer will be responsible for integrating DTCC’s middle office trade processing solutions, including the Omgeo suite of solutions, Trade Support Services (TSS) and the GMEI Utility, as well as leading new product development. He will report to Timothy Keady (pictured), Managing Director and Head of DTCC Solutions.   Stauffer previously served as CEO of Clarient Global, a partnership DTCC launched in 2014 with six founder banks to provide centralised services for all client data and documents

The Exchange Council of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange has unanimously elected Michael Rüdiger as its new Chairman.  Rüdiger is CEO of DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, and has been a member of the Exchange Council as representative of public law credit institutions since the last election on 1 December 2016. He takes over from Lars Hille, representative of the cooperative financial services network (Genossenschaftliche Finanzgruppe, who will leave DZ BANK AG in October 2017 and therefore will terminate his membership in the Exchange Council after ten years. Dr Matthias Zieschang, Executive Board member at Fraport AG, remains Deputy Chairman. “Lars Hille took

AlphaCat Managers (AlphaCat), a wholly owned subsidiary of Validus Holdings, has appointed Bernard Van der Stichele as Portfolio Manager. He will report to Lixin Zeng, Chief Executive Officer of AlphaCat. Van der Stichele brings over 15 year of institutional investment management experience to AlphaCat. Previously, he served as Vice President at AQR Capital Management. Prior to that, he was a Senior Investment Analyst at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, where he developed its first direct ILS investment strategy. Lixin Zeng, Chief Executive Officer of AlphaCat, says: “We are delighted to welcome Bernard to the AlphaCat team. With his impressive track-record and

LOGiQ Asset Management has appointed Tim Fitzpatrick as chief compliance officer of the company and certain of its securities-registered subsidiaries, effective 1 June 2017 subject to securities regulatory approval.   Fitzpatrick is a highly experienced compliance executive with an extensive background in Canadian securities regulatory practices.   Most recently he was the chief compliance officer at Goodman & Company, Investment Counsel Inc, and has also served as a senior compliance officer for Mackenzie Financial Corporation. Prior to this, Fitzpatrick was a compliance and investor inquiries officer at the Ontario Securities Commission.   “We are pleased to welcome Fitzpatrick to the

Law firm Dechert has appointed Joachim Kayser as a financial services/alternative investment partner in Frankfurt.   Kayser (pictured) was most recently head of alternative investments as well as asset management regulatory with accounting and tax firm PwC Germany.    “We are delighted that Joachim and his team will be joining our German financial services group. The addition of Joachim and his team in Frankfurt will nicely complement our existing German practices in Bonn, Frankfurt and Munich,” says Achim Pütz, managing partner Dechert’s Frankfurt office.   Kayser`s practice focuses on legal and operational advice for investment funds as well as their

Ashburton Investments, the investment management arm of the FirstRand Group, has strengthened its equity research capabilities by hiring Robert Lea as head of global equity research.   The newly created global equity research team will provide analysis for the equity solutions range as well as Ashburton’s multi-asset strategy which has been running for over 30 years.   Ashburton is bolstering its equity research function to provide its investment managers with further in-depth analysis. Lea will head up the new team, with Jonathan Aldrich-Blake moving from his current role of Investment Manager at Ashburton to join the newly created team.  

Liquidnet has appointed Takis Christias as head of trading strategies EMEA.   Takis brings more than 20 years of experience in quantitative analysis and trading strategies and will be responsible for the continued build out of the electronic execution offering across the Liquidnet platform.   “Takis is a key addition to Liquidnet’s algorithmic design and development team in EMEA. The ability to optimise execution strategies to navigate the changing liquidity landscape is crucial to our clients,” says Mark Pumfrey, head of Liquidnet EMEA.   Christias joins Liquidnet from Citi, where he held a number of senior roles in the electronic