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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.
Eze Software, a provider of investment management technology, is investing in its EMEA operation and has appointed David Quinlan (pictured), an 18-year veteran of Eze Software, Executive Managing Director, EMEA.
Quinlan will be leading EMEA business development, sales and client services in the region, focused on the needs of the growing number of EMEA clients in the MiFID II environment. Quinlan joined Eze in 1999, and has held a number of critical executive roles across the organisation, serving most recently as head of strategy.
“I couldn’t be more excited for the opportunity to lead the EMEA business for Eze. We
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
Global advisory and fund administration firm Maitland has appointed David Hathorn, until recently the CEO of FTSE 100 packaging and paper giant Mondi, to the firm’s board as a non-executive director.
Hathorn (pictured) will also act as chairman of the audit and risk committee of Maitland International Holdings.
The appointment comes amid a period of growth for Maitland, which recently expanded its reach to 17 offices globally. It follows the 2015 non-executive director appointment of Maureen Erasmus, an advisory partner at global management consultancy Bain & Company.
Hathorn career spans some 30 years, 25 of which were
Hamilton Lane has appointed Leslie F Varon and David Berkman as independent directors on the firm’s board, effective 26 May 2017.
Varon has also been appointed chair of Hamiilton Lane’s audit committee.
“We are delighted to have Leslie and David join Griff Sexton as independent directors, thereby expanding the board to six members including our CEO Mario Giannini, myself, and Erik Hirsch, our vice chairman,” says Hartley Rogers, chairman of Hamilton Lane.
“As we continue to grow and serve our clients, we are committed to deepening our resources and furthering the spirit of innovation that has long existed at our firm,” says Giannini. “Leslie and
Alternative investment fund manager SQN Capital Management has appointed Dawn Kendall as managing director of SQN Asset Management Ltd, the UK manager of the SQN Secured Income Fund (LSE-SSIF).
Kendall joins SQN from TwentyFour Asset Management where she was a partner, portfolio manager and a member of the executive committee.
She started her career at SG Warburg (now UBS), and has since held senior investment and management positions at Newton, Axa (Architas), and Investec Wealth & Investment as well as at TwentyFour.
Her primary specialism is fixed income with an extensive background in investment trusts, structured finance, product development, marketing, risk, derivatives
Cetera Financial Institutions (CFI), part of Cetera Financial Group, has appointed industry veteran Britt Woods as vice president, head of relationship management, effective immediately.
In his new role overseeing adviser recruiting and business consulting activities for CFI, Woods will report directly to the firm’s president, LeAnn Rummel. He will be based in Franklin, TN, while spending significant time in the field with CFI’s business consultants and recruiters, together with the bank and credit union wealth management programs and financial advisors they support.
Cetera Financial Institutions is the Cetera firm specifically focused on serving the wealth management programs of banks
