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PineBridge Investments has appointed Gregory A Ehret as Chief Executive Officer, effective 25 January, 2016. Ehret joins PineBridge from State Street Global Advisors, the investment management arm of State Street Corporation, where he served as President and a member of the Executive Management Group.
PineBridge Chairman John L Thornton says: "Greg is an industry veteran with an impressive track record of growing a global business across both developed and emerging markets. His leadership and operational expertise will position PineBridge to continue providing our clients with an integrated global perspective and a unique investment offering."
"I have watched PineBridge develop its
RIMES, a provider of managed data services for the buy-side, has appointed David Brierwood as its newest board member.
Brierwood brings extensive knowledge of risk management and business operations to RIMES, drawing on his experience in several senior leadership positions in the investment management industry.
Former COO of MSCI Inc, Brierwood helped grow the company’s revenues from less than USD20 million to more than USD1 billion. He also held various senior roles at Morgan Stanley spanning more than twenty years, including COO of the company’s equity division and COO of its institutional and retail securities groups. David is a
Gravitas Technology Services, a provider of front and middle office outsourcing solutions to the hedge fund industry, has added several new key hires to the firm’s team.
With over ten years of industry experience, Jonathan Shapiro joins Gravitas as Senior Director of Business Development, leading the sales team in all revenue producing activities for The Gravitas Platform. Most recently, Shapiro served as Senior Sales Executive at SunGard Asset Management, where he led the sales team covering the hedge fund sector within its asset management division. Previously, Shapiro spent five years at State Street Bank and Trust, where he sold Fund
Following a very successful six year tenure as global head of Maples and Calder, Henry Smith stepped down from the role on 30 November 2015 with Alasdair Robertson succeeding him as Global Managing Partner, with immediate effect.
In addition to his new role, Robertson will continue to serve as MaplesFS Chairman. Scott Somerville retains the role of Chief Executive Officer of MaplesFS.
"It has been a great honour and a privilege to be the Global Managing Partner of Maples and Calder for the past six years. I am happy to say the firm has experienced impressive growth and success
Euronext has appointed leading industry practitioner Paul Humphrey as Head of Fixed Income, Rates and FX (FICC) Strategy.
Humphrey will join Euronext on 4 January 2016 to oversee the development and execution of strategy in the Fixed Income, Interest Rate and Foreign Exchange markets.
Humphrey will join Euronext from Thomson Reuters, where he is a Business & Strategy consultant advising the executive leadership team of the Financial & Risk unit, and a strategic advisor to various innovative young companies. Previously, Paul spent seven years as the CEO of Electronic Broking & Information at Tullett Prebon PLC, the UK based
The Brasidas Capital Management team of Jon Withaar and Steve Deitch have joined multi-strategy hedge fund manager Deimos Asset Management as Managing Directors and Portfolio Managers.
At Deimos, Withaar and Deitch will continue to build and manage portfolios based on global equity event driven investments, primarily focused on Asia. They will manage a portion of the Deimos multi-strategy assets and also plan to launch a co-branded fund based on the Brasidas strategy.
Before founding Brasidas, Withaar and Deitch were Portfolio Managers for over four years at Millennium Management LLC. Prior to Millennium, Withaar was Head of Principal Trading in
Global hedge fund advisory and administration firm Maitland has made four appointments to its global business development and client management team.
The hires will be deployed in Europe, North America, and Latin America respectively, in order to spearhead growth in these regions. The hires come during a period of rapid global growth for the firm, which recently won a major contract with MMI Holdings (Momentum and Metropolitan), making it one of the largest fund administrators in the world in terms of AUA.
Luke Spencer-Wilson has joined the London team as Senior Business Development Manager. His remit will be to
Franklin Square Capital Partners has appointed Greg Bassuk (pictured) as Managing Director and Head of Liquid Alternative Strategies. with responsibility for the development and management of the firm’s liquid alternatives platform.
“Greg Bassuk (pictured) is a veteran in the liquid alternative investments space with an impressive track record,” says Michael C Forman, Chairman and CEO of Franklin Square. “We are delighted Greg has joined Franklin Square to lead our liquid alts efforts, which we will pursue with the same focus on transparency and investor protection that has defined our firm's approach since our inception.”
Bassuk was most recently the
Global Prime Partners has appointed Sean Capstick as Head of Prime Brokerage with immediate effect.
Capstick, who expects to double the size of the company’s broking business in three years, joins from RWC Partners, the USD11bn equity asset management business where he was both a member of the management committee and also Head of New Markets. Capstick had responsibility for all of RWC Partners client business outside of Europe.
Prior to this, Capstick was European Head of Prime Brokerage at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He has also held senior positions at Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
Julian
Karin Forseke, Chair of wealth manager Alliance Trust, is to step down from the company’s board on 1 January 2016.
The Trust announced on 1 October 2015 that it would implement a number of significant changes intended to ‘position the Company better to deliver consistent outperformance in a cost-effective manner’, after coming under pressure from US activist hedge fund Elliot Advisors earlier in the year. As part of these changes, the Company is reorganising its governance structure to create a wholly independent Board and Forseke believes that, as this process nears completion, it is the appropriate time for her to
