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RCM Alternatives, a brokerage firm that provides investors and wealth advisors with education and services for investing in managed futures has promoted Paul Rieger to managing director and partner.
In this role, Rieger will consult family offices and wealth advisors on their asset allocation strategies. His mandate is part of the company’s broader mission to be the world’s premier provider of education and services in the managed futures space.
Rieger, a Chicago native, has more than 16 years of futures industry experience with a focus on commodity trading and execution with leading firms. Before joining RCM, Rieger spent 13 years
David Maughan has been appointed Managing Director within Navigant’s Valuation & Financial Risk Management practice. He will lead transaction advisory efforts for Navigant Capital Advisors, the Firm’s registered broker-dealer subsidiary.
Maughan has broad expertise across several industries with a focus on financial services companies. Maughan, based in New York, will work across Navigant’s industry sectors to advise clients on buy and sell-side opportunities.
“David’s financial services expertise is well aligned with our objectives to extend loan valuation capabilities into transaction advisory services, and enables us to help our clients with investment and sales opportunities through Navigant Capital Advisors,” says Richard
BCS Financial Group (BCS), a provider of equities and derivatives trading in Moscow, has appointed Vyacheslav Smolyaninov as Chief Strategist and Deputy Head of Equity Research.
Kirill Chuyko, Head of Equity Research at BCS Financial Group commented: “We welcome the appointment of Mr Smolyaninov, who is a significant addition to our equity research team. He will be a key partner, especially when it comes to assessing market dynamics and consolidating sector analyses into an actionable investment strategy for the Russian market – both for our clients and BCS Financial Group.”
Smolyaninov joins BCS from URALSIB Capital where he worked
Independent placement agent Eaton Partners has promoted three of its senior members to the Partnership. In addition, the firm has promoted five professionals to Managing Director.
As a group, these professionals represent several of our offices around the globe and signify the firm’s continued cross-border strength.
Steven Eaton, Partner, Rowayton, focuses on the distribution of the firm’s private equity, real estate and real assets offerings. He has 15 years of experience in the financial services industry, working in both the buy-side and the sell-side of the market.
Prior to joining Eaton Partners, he was a Director at C6 Capital, a
Copeland Capital Management has appointed Steven J Adams as the firm’s Chief Operating and Financial Officer.
Adams comes to Copeland from AMG Funds, where he served as Chief Financial Officer. Earlier in his career he was a Senior Manager at Price Waterhouse Coopers where he served clients in the financial services industry and then was a Principal at Rorer Asset Management. Steve joins Copeland as a Principal and will serve on the firm's Management Committee. Adams is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the AICPA Technology Division.
Senior finance lawyer Jennifer J Kafcas has joined law firm O’Melveny & Myers’ London office as counsel and a member of the Corporate Finance Practice.
Kafcas’ practice focuses on general corporate and leveraged finance transactions. She has extensive experience advising borrowers and lenders on complex cross-border transactions in Europe and the United States, including bond offerings, asset-based financings, derivatives, restructurings, and M&A transactions. Having guided clients in refinancings and debt restructurings for more than 15 years, Kafcas has strong insight into the leveraged finance market and in-depth knowledge of UK, European, and US insolvency procedures and syndicated merger financing, acquisitions,
The GIB Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund, the flagship hedge fund of GIB (UK), has appointed Barclays Bank to provide additional prime brokerage services to the fund, alongside existing prime broker, Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited.
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of GIB UK, Mark Watts (pictured), says: “The appointment of Barclays, to complement Credit Suisse, is key to our strategy of growing the fund. At over USD300 million in Assets Under Management (AUMs), the fund has been providing top decile risk adjusted returns, (based on the Fund’s Sharpe Ratio compared to EuroHedge league table peers), to investors for over three
MIK Fund Solutions has opened a Boston office seed with three staff currently. The move follows a recent initiative in Asia that saw the opening of an office in Shanghai.
The Boston office opens up a completely new talent pool for recruiting and hiring for MIK’s global development team. Overall, it will support the firm’s 24×7 global delivery model for software development and client support.
Over 60 multi-billion dollar hedge funds, fund of funds, and private equity funds rely on MIK for sophisticated software solutions for real-time PNL, Data Warehousing, Performance/Attribution, Compliance, Treasury Management, Security Master/Price Management, and Broker Relationship
Wavelength Capital Management, a provider of liquid alternative investments and portfolio solutions, has appointed Mark Landis as Co-Managing Partner, effective immediately.
Landis joins Wavelength from Societe Generale where he was most recently Head of Fixed Income and Currencies for the Americas. Before joining Societe Generale in 2011, Landis was a member of one of the Tiger Management "cub" firms, Touradji Capital. Prior to that, he spent 14 years at Credit Suisse where he rose to the position of Global Co-Head of Fixed Income Sales and Research and was a member of the firm's Operating Committee.
"Mark has a track record
The TCW Group, a global asset management firm, has appointed Felice Shiroma, as a senior portfolio specialist and client portfolio manager for the TCW Relative Value Group.
In this capacity, she is responsible for managing client relationships and representing the firm’s Relative Value equity products, including the TCW Relative Value Large Cap, the TCW Relative Value Dividend Appreciation, and the TCW Relative Value Mid Cap strategies and funds. Shiroma is based in TCW’s New York office and reports to Diane Jaffee, CFA, Group Managing Director of US Equities and Senior Portfolio Manager.
“Having worked in the industry for 25 years
