PIMCO has appointed Alice Cavalier as a senior vice president in the firm’s alternatives team.  Cavalier (pictured) will focus on the analysis of stressed and distressed investments in Europe and will be based in the firm’s London office.   Cavalier joins PIMCO’s established alternatives team of 110 investment professionals globally. Her hiring is part of the continued expansion of the firm’s alternatives investment platform and follows the hires of Paul Vosper, executive vice president and real estate strategist, and Lionel Laurant, executive vice president and distressed credit portfolio manager, earlier in the year.   Cavalier joins PIMCO from Bayside Capital, the

Odey Asset Management has appointed Dipankar Shewaram to the firm’s investment team to work alongside Tim Bond managing the Odey Odyssey Fund. Shewaram (pictured) previously worked at BlueBay Asset Management and Western Asset Management.   Crispin Odey says: “Odey has always combined an understanding of the macro with rigorous stock research. Over the last decade we have built a world class equity research team and Dip joins us as the macro debate moves from noisy to deafening.”   Shewaram adds: “I have known Crispin and Tim for over a decade and have great respect for them as investors and for the

Due diligence and surveillance specialist Clayton Euro Risk has made a number of changes to its senior management team, with Simon Collingridge taking on the newly-created role of client solutions and strategic delivery director. Collingridge (pictured) has been with the company as a consultant since March 2016 but now becomes a full-time member of staff. He will divide his time between the company’s Bristol and London offices.   In addition, Paul Hobbs has been appointed as VP client services and operations with responsibility for operational delivery of all client services and projects, while Jeremy Wren has been appointed as senior

ZEDRA has expanded its senior management team in Jersey with the promotion of Lucia Perchard (pictured) to client director. ZEDRA says the promotion recognises Perchard’s achievements and expertise, and reflects the business’ dedication to provide client-facing directors.   In her new role, Perchard will continue to manage a wide variety of client relationships and complex structures. She is responsible for an extensive client portfolio of high net worth clients, predominately residing within the Middle East.   Prior to her promotion, Perchard held the position of associate director. She has over 18 years’ experience in the Trust industry and has held

GLAS, an independent provider of finance administration services, has appointed Joe Knight to spearhead the expansion of the firm’s direct lending platform.  Knight will have responsibility for business development and developing strategic relationships with GLAS’ existing direct lending client base.   The move comes as funds increasingly replace banks in the lower to middle market transactions, leading to an uptick in demand for independent agent and trustee services.   Knight is an experienced loan professional with over 15 years’ experience in the syndicated loan market. Before joining GLAS, he was managing the London office of AgenSynd. Prior to joining the

The University of Oxford has appointed Mihaela van der Schaar to the Man Professorship of Quantitative Finance, which is funded in perpetuity by a charitable gift of GBP3.3 million made in 2007 by the Charitable Trust of Man Group. Van der Schaar (pictured) will be based at the Oxford-Man Institute (OMI), a centre for research into machine learning and data analytics applied to quantitative finance.   The OMI, which opened in 2007, is a collaboration between the University of Oxford and Man Group and shares premises with Man Group’s Oxford research laboratory.   The OMI has recently joined the University

Independent fixed income broker-dealer Amherst Pierpont Securities has hired Erez Biala as managing director and head of structured credit trading and origination. Biala will establish the firm's structured credit trading and origination platform and lead Amherst Pierpont's efforts to capitalise on what it sees as current market opportunities in the collateralised loan obligation (CLO) and related structured credit markets.   Biala will be responsible for leading Amherst Pierpont's growing presence across the CLO and structured credit markets, including both primary issuance and secondary trading.   He joins Amherst Pierpont following a 15-year fixed-income career with extensive securitised products, structured products

Alternative asset manager FS Investments has hired Steve DeAngelis as executive vice president and head of distribution. DeAngelis will serve on the firm’s executive committee and as president of FS Investment Solutions, FS Investments’ wholly owned broker-dealer subsidiary.   DeAngelis joins the firm as it is expanding distribution into new channels, preparing to launch new investment strategies, and ramping up its advisor and investor education platform.   “Steve DeAngelis has had a long and impressive career in financial services, both as a sales leader and business builder,” says Michael C Forman, chairman and CEO of FS Investments. “We believe we