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Boutique asset manager Unigestion has made three senior appointments to its newly formed intermediary team.
The team will initially have five members and Unigestion plans to grow this further as the firm increases its presence in intermediary markets.
Their initial focus will be making Unigestion’s institutional investment expertise available to intermediaries in the Southern Europe, UK, Nordics, Switzerland and the US.
Simone Gallo joins Unigestion as head of intermediary distribution. He will have responsibility for building the global intermediary channels focusing on wealth managers, multi-managers and sub-advisory mandates.
Gallo joins from Pictet Asset Management where she spent
Asset management boutique Managing Partners Group (MPG) has appointed Philip Eaton Richards as head of its capital markets team as it expands its asset-backed securities (ABS) business based in Malta.
Reporting directly to the chief executive officer Jeremy Leach, Eaton Richards’ responsibility is to develop MPG’s securitisation and structuring services arm.
MPG believes the market for ABS is set to grow exponentially over the next few years in Europe to meet demand from companies in three main sectors – SMEs looking to expand their products and services, operators in the growing FinTech sector and alternative fund managers looking to
Highland Capital Management, a Dallas-based alternative investment management firm, has appointed Brad Eden as global head of marketing and investor relations.
Eden (pictured) brings to Highland more than 30 years of experience across a wide range of institutional investment leadership roles.
His experience includes growing Fund Evaluation Group, an independent institutional consulting firm that he co-founded, to one of the US's largest investment consulting firms by number of clients, and leading corporate development at a USD2 billion credit-focused asset management and private equity firm where he headed successful fundraising efforts around the firm's distressed strategies.
He was also
The Managed Funds Association (MFA) has appointed its board of directors for 2016-17, which it says is diverse in firm size and geographic make-up and comprised of fund managers, public and private pension funds, banks and accounting firms.
It will provide governance oversight to MFA and help guide the association’s advocacy, education and communications efforts.
MFA’s returning officers are: board chair David C Haley, president, HBK Capital Management; vice chair Michael S Harris, president, Campbell & Company; and secretary Bruce S Darringer, member and chief operating officer, King Street Capital Management.
MFA board members elected Natalie Deak Jaros,
Murray Devine, a US valuation advisory firm, has appointed Robert A Tribuiani as managing director, head of business development.
Tribuiani will be responsible for developing, executing and managing sales strategies, focusing on Murray Devine’s key end markets, including private equity and venture capital firms, debt and hedge funds, banks and corporations.
With over 20 years of experience in consultative sales, relationship management and business development, Tribuiani joins Murray Devine from SolomonEdwards where he was a senior business development executive. During his 10 years at SolomonEdwards, Tribuiani focused on assisting the firm’s banking and financial services clients solve critical business
Kite Consulting Group, a financial recruitment firm, has launched Blocktribe, a site designed to list the best blockchain-related jobs around the world.
Blocktribe aims to establish itself as a central go-to source of jobs in this area, and the first of its kind for blockchain in Europe.
With over 100 blockchain roles already advertised, the launch creates a central place for businesses to find talent in the rapidly growing sector.
Distributed ledger technologies have the potential to deliver significant business improvement and cost reduction across many industries, including in financial services areas such as payments, clearing and settlements.
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global representative for alternative asset managers, has appointed a new chairman and a new AIMA Council, the association’s global board of directors.
Taking over as AIMA chair is Simon Lorne, vice chairman and chief legal officer at Millennium Management.
He replaces the former SEC commissioner Kathleen Casey, who served as chair of AIMA from September 2012 to September 2016.
There are four new additions to the AIMA Council: Robyn Grew, chief administrative officer and GC, Man Group; Han Ming Ho, partner, Sidley Austin; Ryan Taylor, partner and global head of compliance,
New York-based alternative investment firm Angelo Gordon has appointed Damien Loveday as managing director, investor relations.
Loveday will be responsible for enhancing and expanding the firm’s institutional relationships in the EMEA region.
Previously, he was global head of diversifying strategies for Willis Towers Watson.
Loveday will be based in London and report to Gareth Henry, managing director and global head of investor relations.
“Damien is a highly accomplished executive and we look forward to leveraging his deep relationships and alternative investment expertise as we further strengthen and expand Angelo Gordon’s global investor base,” says Henry. “We are
Eaton Partners, a placement agent and advisory firm for private fund sponsors, has appointed Gianluca D'Angelo as managing director – head of Europe and James Townend as director.
Both executives are based out of Eaton Partners' London office, representing continued investment in and expansion of the firm's capabilities in Europe.
D'Angelo, who has over 15 years of experience in financial services, is responsible for leading the origination, execution and distribution of alternative funds for Eaton Partners in Europe. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, he was a partner for global placement agent Probitas Partners UK, where he was responsible for
Bridgeway Capital Management, an independent, statistically driven investment manager, has appointed Devin Benton (pictured) as director, institutional sales and client relations.
In this new position for Bridgeway, Benton will develop relationships with institutional clients such as public plans, foundations and endowments, as well as the consultants who serve them.
Benton will help strengthen relationships by listening to the needs of institutional clients and matching them with the discipline and expertise of the firm.
“We have seen how our investment philosophy resonates with the institutional market, and we needed a special kind of person to help us bring it
