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Multi-asset class investment manager PineBridge Investments has appointed Anik Sen as Global Head of Equities, effective immediately.
Sen is responsible for managing the firm's global equities business with USD21.2 billion in assets under management as of 31 December, 2014. He is based in New York and reports to PineBridge's Chief Executive Officer, David Jiang.
"I am pleased that Anik will lead PineBridge's global equities business," says David Jiang. "Anik has a successful history of delivering alpha-focused solutions for our clients and a clear vision for further advancing our equities investment management business."
PineBridge Equities is differentiated through the use of
Artisan Partners Asset Management has recruited Lewis Kaufman to start a new autonomous investment team – the firm’s seventh in total.
At Artisan Partners Kaufman will manage a developing world strategy that the firm is targeting to launch in mid-2015. Kaufman will have the flexibility to build a team to assist him in the management of the strategy in a way that will support his unique investment beliefs.
Kaufman has 15 years of industry experience and 8 years of portfolio management experience including the last 5 overseeing a developing world strategy. Kaufman has a bachelor’s degree in English from Colgate
Franklin Templeton Investments has appointed Stephanie Ouwendijk as a vice president and portfolio manager.
Ouwendijk joined Franklin Templeton on 16 February 2015, as part of its Emerging Markets Debt Opportunities team which sits within the Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group. She is based in London and reports to William Ledward, senior vice president and portfolio manager, who leads the Emerging Markets Debt Opportunities team. The team currently manages over USD10bn for institutional investors.
Ouwendijk joins Franklin Templeton from Ashmore Group, a London-based emerging markets asset management firm, where she served as fund manager since June 2010. Most recently,
Alternative asset manager and investment adviser, Absolute Return Partners (ARP) has strengthened its research team with the appointment of Alison Major Lépine as investment manager.
Reporting to Nick Rees, managing partner, she will start at ARP’s Richmond offices on 9 March.
Lépine joins ARP after spending almost 10 years as an investment manager at Railpen Investments, the GBP18bn industry-wide Railways Pension Scheme. During this time she was responsible for the Scheme's hedge fund investments, as well as managing and researching other strategies. Before Railpen, she was a portfolio manager on the multi-manager products at IKEA family office, IKANO Advisory
Millennium Trust Company, a provider of alternative asset custody solutions to institutions, advisors and individuals, has made two promotions within its Alternative Solutions Group.
The firm has named Jeremy Christensen, Director of Private Fund Custody and Matt Nitschke, National Director of the Alternative Solutions Group.
Prior to his new role, Christensen had been acting manager of Private Fund Custody (PFC), Millennium Trust's fastest growing business line. In addition, he managed Registered Investment Advisor relationships and new business development for the Southeast/Mid-Atlantic Region with focus on custody solutions for hedge funds, private equity, managed futures and other alternative investments.
"When we
Investec Investment Bank & Securities (IIBS) has appointed Paul Locke and Darren Vickers, to its C
closed-end fund team.
Locke is a Senior Investment Funds Analyst with over 18 years’ experience across a wide range of products within the closed-end fund and investment trust market. Initially a country risk analyst with Dun & Bradstreet, Paul started his City career with Panmure Gordon before spending extended periods at both HSBC and Canaccord Genuity.
Vickers joins Investec from Westhouse Securities. He has completed a significant number of transactions, including IPOs and secondary fundraisings, at both Westhouse and previously Charles Stanley Securities.
Quantmetrics Capital Management is to join Lyxor’s AIFM MAP launching the first AIFMD-compliant strategy on the managed account platform.
Quantmetrics’ investment strategy will be a short-term CTA program invested in all asset classes that seeks to combine behavioural insights with quantitative analysis to capture alpha. It aims to exploit small and temporary price discrepancies in financial markets in the US, Europe and Asia by pursuing a short-term systematic trading of futures and spot FX positions.
In 2015, as the environment for CTAs has significantly improved, this strategy could be a strong diversifier to deliver positive and uncorrelated returns to
Candriam Investors Group, the pan-European multi-asset manager, has appointment Matthieu David as Head of Candriam Investors Group Italy.
David will report directly to Renato Guerriero, Global Head of European Client Relations, who recently was appointed Member of the Executive Committee.
David will be responsible for Candriam’s business development strategy in Italy in order to leverage Candriam’s proprietary platform and investment expertise. In addition to consolidating Candriam’s presence in the pension fund and institutional mandates sector, Matthieu David will lead the company’s growth in asset management and distribution. David leads a team of four sales managers and will coordinate local
Man GLG, the discretionary investment management business of Man Group (Man), has appointed Himanshu Gulati as Head of US Distressed Credit, based in New York.
Gulati, who joins from Perry Capital, the US hedge fund business, will manage a new distressed investment strategy which Man GLG plans to launch later this year.
Gulati, a specialist in distressed and special situations investing, joins Man GLG after almost nine years at Perry Capital where he was a Managing Partner responsible for Distressed Credit and Special Situations investments. Prior to Perry Capital, Gulati worked at Rockview Capital, a credit focused fund. In
Armstrong Investment Managers (AIM) has appointed Cenk Aydin as Managing Director for MENA to expand AIM’s international network into Turkey and the Middle East.
Cenk, who is British-Turkish joins AIM from JP Morgan where he was Head of Corporate Segment for Europe, Middle East and Africa. He previously worked as Chief Operating Officer for the Global Transaction Services Business of Bank of America EMEA. Over the course of his career he has undersigned major deals totalling up to USD100bn.
Cenk currently serves on President's Advisory Group of the EastWest Institute, a New York based think-tank and is Vice Chairman of
