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JO Hambro Capital Management Limited (JOHCM) has strengthened its US presence with the appointment of three senior professionals.
This summer, Phil Dever, Michelle Donley Holmes and Jonathan Weitz will be joining JOHCM’s US headquarters in Boston.
Dever, who serves as a managing director of North American client service, is focused on servicing JOHCM’s institutional client base in North America, which is a key geographic focus for the firm. He brings more than 25 years of experience in client service and relationship management, helping to strengthen business relationships and exceed client expectations. He recently was the director of client service and
Peter Clarke, a former chief executive officer (CEO) of Man Grroup, is to join the board of RWC Partners as a non-executive Director. Clarke currently serves on the boards of Lombard Odier and AXA UK and is Chairman of Lancashire Holdings.
Nicky Richards, Global Head of Equities for Schroders, who have a 43 per cent shareholding in RWC Partners, was recently appointed non-executive Chairman of the firm.
Dan Mannix, CEO of RWC Partners, says: “Our Board is an essential component of the strategic decision making framework underpinning RWC Partners’ objective to provide market leading, sustainable investment management services. This
Estera has bolstered its risk and compliance offering with the appointment of Risk and Compliance Director, Tui Iti who will be responsible for ensuring the company consistently adopts the highest global compliance standards across each of its international offices.
The newly created role consolidates Estera’s strategic approach to the management of internal and external risk.
Iti brings more than 16 years of multi-jurisdictional compliance experience to the group, gained from working in both the onshore and offshore finance industries across a range of sectors.
Prior to joining Estera, Iti was Group Risk and Compliance Director for multi-jurisdictional fiduciary services company,
InvestCloud, a cloud-based digital applet platform for financial services, has appointed Graham Collier as the firm’s new Head of Technical Operations for Europe.
In this role, Collier will oversee the development and roll-out of InvestCloud’s technology for European clients, showcasing his management, technical and operational skills, and will help implement service delivery to serve InvestCloud’s expanding European customer base
InvestCloud’s digital applet platform, which is used by 660 advisory and institutional clients, supports over USD1.5 trillion of assets and following its success in the US, where it launched in 2010, is now rolling out operations across Europe from its
Betty Tay, Managing Director and Head of the External Managers Department at GIC, Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, has joined the board of the Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB), the global standard-setting body for the hedge fund industry.
In addition, the HFSB has established an Asia-Pacific (APAC) Committee which will include: APAC-based HFSB Trustees Betty Tay of GIC, Chris Gradel of PAG and David George of Future Fund; and senior APAC-based industry executives Richard Johnston of Albourne Partners and Ted Lee of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB). Additional hedge fund manager representatives will be announced in due course.
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Offshore law firm Carey Olsen has announced six new partners bringing the total number of partners across its seven offices to 49.
The new partners are Annette Alexander from the Guernsey corporate practice, Kate Andrews and James Willmott from the Jersey corporate practice, Keith Dixon and Alexa Saunders from the Jersey trusts and private wealth practice and Jeremy Garrood from the Jersey litigation practice.
Carey Olsen chairman, John Kelleher (pictured), says: “Our new partners have earned their place through their exceptional technical knowledge and dedication to client service. They join the partner group at a very exciting time for Carey
Tony Morrongiello will be stepping down from his role as CEO fund of hedge funds ALTIN, with Claudia Habermacher named as his replacement after shareholders accepted a raft of proposals from by Alpine Select AG and Absolute Invest AGplacement.
Furthermore, the Board of Directors has decided to postpone the intended delisting of ALTIN shares from the London Stock Exchange to the end of September 2016.
Other proposals accepted by shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on Tuesday include a reduction of ALTIN AG’s share capital from CHF58,645,002 (divided into 3,449,706 registered shares with a nominal value of CHF17 each)
Atrato Advisors,a USD3 billion alternative investment advisory firm, has hired Andy Vantine to lead Credit and Event-Driven strategy research.
Vantine had previously been Co-Director of Research at Chi-Rho Financial, the Atlanta-based multi-manager investment specialist. Vantine will report to Michael Boensch, Atrato’s longtime Director of Research.
The addition of Vantine signals Atrato’s continued investment in its team amidst significant growth this year. The firm, led by partners Brian Reich and Janna Sobolev, continues to bolster its position as a high-touch boutique for family offices, wealth management platforms, and institutions with unique alternative investment programs. In January, Dynasty Financial Partners and
Cowen Group has appointed Kevin LoPrimo (pictured) as managing director – head of international prime brokerage at Cowen Prime Services (Cowen Prime).
Mike Rosen, Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Prime Brokerage Services, says, “Cowen has been laying the groundwork for our entry into the prime brokerage and outsourced trading business in Europe for many months and we are pleased to welcome Kevin to our leadership team. We believe that his extensive international prime brokerage expertise will help accelerate the implementation of Cowen Prime’s platform in Europe and Asia and the introduction of our comprehensive solutions to investment managers in
Russ Oxley is to leave Old Mutual Global Investors with immediate effect following a difference in opinion over the future strategic direction of the firm.
Adam Purzitsky and Paul Shanta have now been appointed as Co-Heads of the Absolute Return Government Bond team (ARGB team), which was perviously run by Oxley (pictured), reporting to Paul Simpson, Investment Director.
Purzitsky and Shanta joined Old Mutual Global Investors in early 2015 along with the other members of the ARGB team. They have been instrumental in the management and development of the Absolute Return Government Bond strategy over the last seven and eight
