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CF Partners has appointed Vu Nguyen as a Senior Research Analyst joining the asset management investment team.
Nguyen brings strong experience from the asset management and investment banking industry during which time he has accumulated significant expertise in the utility and energy sectors.
Vu joins CF Partners from Sanford Bernstein, an investment research firm. Previously, he was a research analyst at Nomura International specialising in European utilities and energy companies. He has also worked as an investment analyst at Orbis, a USD20 billion mutual fund, and for KPMG Audit.
Commenting on the appointment, Roland Vetter, Portfolio Manager and
First Names Group, a provider of trust, funds and corporate services, has appointed Pete Emery as Group Chief Operating Officer (COO). The appointment is effective immediately.
Emery, who will be based in the Group’s London office, will work closely with Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Cengiz Somay, and the Management Team to deliver the Group’s strategic objectives. His new role will focus on developing a global operational platform to enable First Names Group to achieve its vision for continued growth. Emery will also oversee group functions, namely: change, HR, technology services, treasury, facilities and management information.
Prior to joining the
Aviva Investors has appointed Rahul Khasgiwale as a senior investment specialist based in the firm’s Toronto office.
Khasgiwale will work closely with Aviva Investors’ strategic partners and clients in North America with a focus on our multi-strategy capabilities and outcome oriented solutions.
Khasgiwale joins the team with 14 years of experience in the financial services industry. Before joining Aviva, Rahul was the Investment Director for Multi-Asset solutions at Manulife Asset Management. Prior to that, he was an Absolute Return Investment Director at Standard Life Investments focused on retail and institutional clients and consultants in Canada. Khasgiwale began his investment career
Morningstar has made leadership appointments to the Morningstar Investment Management group for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region.
Dan Kemp has been appointed Chief Investment Officer for Morningstar’s Investment Management group for the EMEA region. He replaces Daniel Needham, CFA, who became President and Chief Investment Officer for the Morningstar Investment Management group in January 2015. The company has also appointed Robin Johnson, CFA, as Head of Portfolio Management, EMEA. Both appointments are effective immediately.
Kemp and Johnson each bring almost two decades of investment experience to their new roles. Kemp joined Morningstar in 2014 as co-Head
Orchard Global Asset Management has appointed Adrian Chopin as a portfolio advisor with responsibility for building a new business line in law firm and litigation funding, while also assisting the development of OGAM's existing structured credit platforms.
Adri Chopin an joins as a member of Orchard's senior portfolio management team, reporting to Gary Wee, Chairman and CIO.
Chopin will join OGAM this summer from Deutsche Bank where he has worked for eight years, most recently as the head of the firm's seven-man North American Debt & Equity Solutions Group. Chopin has a strong track record of designing and closing highly
Gravitas is strengthening its executive team by appointing Dante DeWitt as Managing Director, Global Technology, and Andrew Dinsmore as Chief Financial Officer.
Gravitas is a leading collaborative outsourcing partner for the alternative investment space that helps hedge funds smartly scale their businesses through its people+process+technology offering. Gravitas experts provide front to middle office workflow support on a fully serviced and configurable investment platform.
“As Gravitas enhances its solutions powered by our proprietary front and middle office platform, we are delighted to add world-class leadership to our executive team,” says Jayesh Punater, Founder & CEO.
DeWitt, who has over
Elian, a provider of corporate services, fund services, private wealth and capital services, has extended its international footprint with the opening of an office in New York.
The New York office will support Elian’s fast-growing and comprehensive range of corporate services, including corporate structuring, structured finance and asset finance. The office will also support Elian’s broad range of administration services to private equity, real estate and hedge fund managers.
The office will be led by managing director John Wallace (pictured), who has over 25 years' international financial markets experience. Wallace has held a number of senior positions in New
MarketAxess Holdings, the operator of an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, and the provider of market data and post-trade services for the global fixed income markets, has appointed Scott Eaton as Chief Operating Officer for MarketAxess Europe Limited and Trax.
In this role, Eaton will oversee business operations for Europe, reporting to Rick McVey, Chief Executive Officer of MarketAxess. Eaton's focus will be on further growing the European business, by working with the MarketAxess and Trax teams to continue delivering innovative trading, data and post-trade solutions that help clients meet the challenges of the evolving regulatory landscape.
Eaton was
Wilshire Consulting, the institutional investment advisory and outsourced-CIO business unit of Wilshire Associates Incorporated, has named Steven J Foresti as its chief investment officer (CIO).
Foresti, a managing director, will continue as head of Wilshire Consulting’s Investment Research Group, which oversees strategic investment research and the development of asset class assumptions for use in Wilshire Consulting’s asset allocation modelilng. Appointing him as CIO helps reinforce Foresti’s role in harnessing Wilshire’s investment and manager research into actionable recommendations for Consulting non-discretionary and OCIO clients.
“In this important role as Chief Investment Officer, Steve will continue to lead our investment research efforts
State Street Corporation has appointed Effie Datson as global head of product for its Alternative Investment Solutions division. Datson’s initial focus will be on expanding the global footprint of InfraHedge, State Street’s USD15 billion managed account platform.
In this newly created role, Datson will be based in London and will report to George Sullivan, global head of Alternative Investment Solutions at State Street. Working together with Bruce Keith, global head of InfraHedge, her immediate focus will be to take responsibility for further developing the InfraHedge offering and introducing its bespoke, infrastructure-only managed accounts solution to large institutional investors globally. Datson
