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Newly-launched BCR Consulting is aiming to provide publicly traded companies in China, Thailand, Singapore, Japan and other Asian countries with a broad range of investor relations and public relations services.
Focused on publicly traded companies, BCR Consulting says it is dedicated to fostering better access to capital, greater share liquidity, achieving fair market valuations and facilitating long-term shareholder value.
BCR’s services include financial community targeting and marketing, corporate communications, and internet and social media strategies.
“Over the years many China and Asia-based public companies have been poorly served by IR and PR firms whose efforts result in only
Turner Investments has named Stefania A Perrucci as global head of fixed income, ahead of the firm’s launch of a series of fixed income, credit and absolute return investment strategies.
In this newly-created position, Perrucci (pictured) will serve on Turner’s investment committee and is a member of the firm’s fixed income/credit, yield/income, and absolute return investment sub-committees.
“Perrucci’s investment acumen and established position as a thought leader on global markets make her uniquely qualified to lead our efforts into the fixed income arena,” says Robert Turner, managing partner and founder of Turner. “We are delighted to have her on board
Gordian Compliance Solutions, a boutique consulting firm specialising in regulatory compliance services for financial industry firms, has promoted four employees to managing partner positions.
Each of the new partners – Ben Buckwalter, Patrick Dominguez, Yulia Kalk and Justin Schleifer – has been with the firm for more than three years and has been instrumental in its growth.
Buckwalter serves as general counsel for both Gordian Compliance Solutions and affiliate, Gordian Investments, a FINRA member broker-dealer. Buckwalter also serves as senior compliance consultant to the firm’s investment adviser clients.
Dominguez serves as the director of investment adviser services for
Dynasty Financial Partners has appointed Matthew Marsh as director of investment solutions.
Marsh will be responsible for leading investments solutions in the Western and Central divisions for Dynasty’s advisory firms, including the Dynasty TAMP, portfolio model management and rebalancing, SMA and UMA solutions, hedge funds, private equity, and capital markets.
Marsh will work closely with Scott Welch, chief investment officer, and Michael Moriarty, director of investment platforms, to provide Dynasty's network of advisory firms with technology and research to solve clients' investment needs. He will report to Todd Thomson, Dynasty Financial Partners' chairman who also chairs Dynasty’s investment committee.
Old Mutual Global Investors (OMGI), part of Old Mutual Wealth, has appointed Diego Parrilla to the newly created role of managing director, commodities.
Based in Singapore, Parrilla will report to Paul Simpson, investment director at OMGI.
He will initially be responsible for promoting and building the GBP60 million Old Mutual Gold & Silver Fund to the institutional investors in Singapore and other markets in which OMGI operates.
He will also be working with OMGI’s management team to identify absolute return strategies across precious metals and commodities that are aligned with the strategic direction of the company, and with
Gramercy Funds Management, a USD5.7 billion emerging markets investment manager, has appointed Chris Tackney (pictured) as managing director and co-head of the Gramercy trading desk.
Tackney has over 20 years of trading and portfolio management experience in emerging markets and will co-head the trading desk with Matt Maloney, managing director.
Both Tackney and Maloney report directly to Robert Koenigsberger, managing partner and chief investment officer.
Tackney, along with Maloney, will manage a trading desk that encompasses performing and distressed corporates, sovereigns, equities, credit default swaps and currency hedges. Together, they serve as key members of the portfolio management
Ancoa, a provider of contextual surveillance and analytics for exchanges, regulators and buy- and sell-side firms, has appointed Hugo Jenkins and John Barker to its advisory board.
Jenkins has spent over 30 years in the City in a variety of positions. His early career was spent broking a wide range of futures and options markets at Merrill Lynch and GNI, followed by a period working at the LIFFE exchange.
Latterly, Jenkins was managing director of the FOA (FIA Europe). During his 16-year tenure, he was responsible for delivering a range of policy, operational, compliance and business advisory services
Global law firm K&L Gates has added Sasha Burstein as a partner in the firm’s investment management, hedge funds and alternative investments practice in San Francisco.
She joins K&L Gates from Paul Hastings.
Burstein counsels investment advisors and institutional investors on matters involving private investment funds, including hedge, private equity, and hybrid funds. She advises on legal and regulatory matters such as registration and operation, mergers and acquisition transactions, and regulatory compliance, as well as the structuring, negotiating, and documenting of alternative investments.
“We are extremely pleased that Sasha has joined us,” says Edward Sangster, administrative partner of K&L Gates’
Pacific Fund Systems (PFS), a provider of fund administration software to hedge funds and private equity funds, has made two appointments to its European operations team.
Erich Carshagen, a senior business analyst within the PFS group, has relocated to PFS’ new European offices headquartered in the Isle of Man.
Carshagen will be working with Martin Heaney, PFS’ senior business analyst and head of testing, and the business analyst team across the PFS group, and will continue to provide client training and supporting materials, migration assistance, support, design specifications for new developments and enhancements, and system testing. Carshagen is a
TIM Group, a provider of software, services and platforms for institutional investors, has added three new staff members to work in its New York office.
Christopher Kleparek joins the team from Thomson Reuters where he was responsible for growing and maintaining strategic relationships in the capital markets community.
Jay Goldenstein joins from RavenPack International where he specialised in quantitative data products.
Austin Mueller previously worked at Informa Investment Solutions, helping clients identify best reporting solutions.
The trio will focus on business development and managing client relationships for TIM Group.
The business development team is led by
