Colin W McLean, FSIP, has been elected the new Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of CFA Institute, the global association of investment management professionals.  Effective 1 September, McLean succeeds Frederic P Lebel, CFA, who becomes the newly elected Chair of the Board. The new board line-up was elected by the membership at the 69th CFA Institute Annual Conference, held in Montreal earlier this month. McLean is the first non-Charterholder to hold this role.   McLean is CEO of SVM Asset Management Ltd, an independent fund management group based in Edinburgh, UK, which he founded in 1990. SVM specialises

Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) CIO and Head of Infrastructure Debthas appointed Deborah Zurkow (pictured) is to take on a new, broader role, becoming head of the Alternatives pillar within the firm’s global investment platform.  Zurkow will join AllianzGI’s Global Executive Committee, effective 1 June 2016. As Head of Alternatives, Zurkow will lead the continued build out of AllianzGI’s Alternatives capability, which comprises a diverse mix of both liquid and illiquid alternative investment solutions for clients. Since the creation of AllianzGI’s Alternatives pillar in December 2014, Assets Under Management have doubled, growing from EUR7.9 billion in December 2014 to EUR15.7 billion

Lindsay Chamings has joined Andersen Tax as a Managing Director in the Alternative Investment Funds Practice in the firm’s San Francisco office.  Prior to joining Andersen Tax, Chamings was a Managing Director at KPMG (through KPMG's acquisition of Rothstein Kass in 2014). Lind Chamings say has more than 12 years of experience in providing tax services in the alternative investment fund space. She has experience advising hedge fund and alternative investment companies on the US tax implications of their domestic and international operations in order to obtain an optimal tax minimisation strategy. “Lindsay is an essential addition to our Alternative

The Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB) has appointed Clint Carlson (pictured), Founder of Carlson Capital, an USD8 billion alternative asset management firm based in Texas, to its Board.  The HFSB is the global standard-setting body for the hedge fund industry and custodian of the Hedge Fund Standards.   The addition of Carlson to the HFSB board reflects recent growth in the number of US managers supporting the Hedge Fund Standards. New US signatories in 2016 include Carlson Capital, as well as Alyeska Investment Group, BCK Capital, MKP Capital Management, and ROW Asset Management.   North American signatories currently represent the

Investment advisory and placement firm for hedge and private equity funds Aqueduct Capital Group, has appointed Dr Pawan Chaturvedi as head of investments. Chaturvedi joins Aqueduct from the UCLA Investment Company, where he was a senior investment director focused on all aspects of portfolio management and the private markets portfolio. Prior to UCLA, he was a partner at private markets advisor Altius Associates and a member of their executive management committee. His new role at Aqueduct will be working in collaboration with partners Tom Roupe, Frank Edwards and Steve Lessing. Roupe, co-founder of Aqueduct, says: “Pawan is an extremely talented

NFA President and CEO Daniel Roth has announced his plan to retire in the coming year. NFA's Board of Directors has authorised the formation of a committee to conduct a search for his successor. The search will consider both internal and external candidates. Roth (pictured) joined NFA, a self-regulatory organisation for the US derivatives industry, in September 1983 as an attorney and has held a number of positions with increasing responsibilities, including General Counsel, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. In January 2003, Roth began his tenure as President and CEO. "I'm proud of all that NFA has achieved

Broadridge Financial Solutions has appointed Stephanie Clarke (pictured) to the role of senior vice president of Global Market Intelligence within its Mutual Fund and Retirement Solutions business based in London.  Clarke's hire underlines Broadridge's commitment to grow its competitive intelligence business following the acquisition of the Fiduciary Services and Competitive Intelligence Business from Thomson Reuters in 2015. This latest hire focused on Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia is part of Broadridge's strategy to continue developing its analytics and market intelligence solutions for mutual fund manufacturers, ETF issuers and fund administrators globally. Broadridge's intelligence solutions provide financial services firms with

BlackRock has named Mark Wiseman as incoming Senior Managing Director and a member of the firm’s Global Executive Committee (GEC).  Wiseman will become Head of BlackRock’s Global Active Equity business and will become Chairman of the BlackRock Global Investment Committee, the investment sub-committee of the GEC. He will also help support BlackRock Alternative Investors. Wiseman will report to Robert S Kapito, President of BlackRock, and will join the firm in early September. Wiseman currently serves as President & Chief Executive Officer of CPP Investment Board, which manages approximately CAD280 billion on behalf of the Canada Pension Plan and its 19

SYZ Asset Management, the institutional asset management division of the SYZ Group, has appointed Cédric Vuignier (pictured) as Head of Manager Research & Alternative Investments, and Bertrand Dord, as senior analyst.  Vuignier will take up his position on 1 June 2016, replacing Michaël Malquarti, who is taking his career in a new direction. A joint handover period until the end of June will enable a smooth transition between the two managers.   Based in Geneva, Vuignier has over 14 years of experience in alternative investments research and selection, of which 12 years were with HSBC (2000-2012) in New York and