Point72 Asset Management (Point72), the family office managing the assets of its founder, Steven A Cohen (pictured), and eligible employees, has appointed Dr Gio Valiante as Head Performance Coach. Valiante has been consulting at the Firm for the past 18 months and will continue to work one-on-one with Point72’s investment professionals to improve performance.   “We constantly invest in developing our people and help them to become masters of their craft,” says Doug Haynes, President of Point72. “Dr. Gio Valiante’s work offers our professionals the opportunity to work with a proven and world-renowned performance coach. We expect his work will

JonesTrading Institutional Services, an institutional equity block trading and execution firm based in the United States, is expanding into pan-Asian trading. In addition to Asia markets already covered for US-based institutions, the firm will now trade equity instruments in virtually all Asian markets on behalf of local and US institutional clients, using its relationship based model. JonesTrading will now cover Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia, The Philippines, and Japan, as well as Japanese clients trading US   The move is being made in response to market demand. The need for high-touch trading continues to grow, even as

HIG Capital has appointed Giuseppe Mirante as Managing Director of Bayside Capital, the firm’s distressed debt and special situations affiliate. Mirante, who has over 15 years of private equity and distressed debt experience, will be based in London. Prior to joining Bayside, Mirante was Head of Distressed and Loan Research at BNP Paribas in London. Previously, He was a European credit and distressed analyst at Cyrus Capital and Trafalgar Asset Managers. He also co-founded and ran Tigon Capital, an advisory company for private equity and credit funds. He is fluent in German, Italian, Spanish and French and holds an MBA

FundCount, a Boston-based provider of investment management, general ledger and partnership accounting software for single and multi-family offices, fund administrators, hedge funds, private equity and related investment firms, has appointed Michael Slemmer CFA (pictured) as Chief Operating Officer for the Americas. With over 30 years of experience in investment technology, Slemmer joins FundCount from SS&C, where he was Director of Business Development for its performance measurement, attribution and risk products. Prior to this he was a principal at The Collaborative, an investment industry consulting firm. Slemmer was General Manager, North America and held other leadership roles at Thomson Financial –

Specialist asset manager Gresham House has appointed Richard Davidson (pictured) as Chair of the Investment Committee of its forestry management subsidiary, Aitchesse Ltd. He will also become Lead Fund Manager of the Gresham House Forestry Fund.  With a strong knowledge of and interest in forestry through his involvement in The Forestry Partnership, advised by Aitchesse, as both an investor and Investment Committee member, Ric Davidson hard will work alongside founder Digby Guy and the experienced forestry management team to establish and manage the Gresham House Forestry Fund.    Davidson has over twenty five years of experience in fund management in

SYZ Asset Management, the institutional management division of the SYZ Group, is adding two new multi-asset strategies to its range – Active Allocation and Risk-Based Allocation. SYZ Asset Management has successfully offered multi-asset investment solutions to institutional investors for over 15 years, including an Active Allocation strategy since 1999 and the well-established Absolute Return strategy since 2003, both known for their active allocation style based on in-depth analysis of the macro-economic framework.   Recent arrivals in 2015 have brought new skills to SYZ Asset Management, which now offers a comprehensive range of Multi-Asset products. Hartwig Kos, Co-Head of the Multi-Asset

AI Insight, a specialist in alternative investment research, education and compliance documentation, has recruited Laura Sexton and Patrick McGowan to further develop the firm’s program management capabilities and expand relationships within the broker dealer and RIA communities. Sexton will lead a team of analysts responsible for entering the Alternative Investment data that powers the AI Insight platform. McGowan will develop relationships within the broker dealer community and help broaden institutional growth opportunities with respect to AI Insight's RIA platform.   "We are thrilled to welcome these two exceptional individuals to the AI Insight team. Each brings unique professional experience that

Cordium, a provider of regulatory compliance consulting, software, accounting and tax services to the asset management and securities industry, has appointed Brad Prodger as Vice President of Business Development, Strategic Partnerships and Distribution Channels. Prodger is responsible for developing partnerships with custodians and broker dealers, as well as industry software vendors to distribute best of breed compliance management software and services to RIA and BD clients. Prodger will work with partner sales and account management teams to introduce Cordium software, training videos and a wide range of consulting services to enable them to establish highly efficient compliance programs.