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Advent Capital Management has appointed Matthew Dundon, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager to its alternative investment strategies team.
Dundon will support and collaborate with Advent’s current portfolio managers to identify unique investment ideas across corporate capital structures globally.
“We’re excited to welcome Matthew to Advent and look forward to the complementary skills he’ll bring as we continue to grow, diversify and opportunistically enhance our investment teams,” says Tracy Maitland, President and Chief Investment Officer of Advent. “The volatility in global markets is creating increased investment opportunities and we are adding investment talent to be able to vet more investment ideas
Hong Kong law firm K&L Gates has added Michael Wong as a partner in the investment management, hedge funds and alternative investments practice.
Wong joins the firm from Allen & Overy LLP.
Concentrating his practice on investment management and financial regulation, Wong has extensive experience advising fund managers and financial institutions on the structuring, establishment, and distribution of a broad range of fund products, including hedge, alternative investment, and SFC-authorized funds, as well as counseling on a wide variety of other financial regulatory areas, including licensing and registration of financial intermediaries, managed accounts, custody arrangements, disclosure of interests, insider dealing,
Unigestion, an institutional asset manager that focuses on providing its clients with a targeted range of risk-managed investment solutions, has appointed Ken Harvie as Head of Consultant Relations within its Institutional Clients team.
Harvie joined in December 2014 and is based in London, reporting to Tom Leavitt, Managing Director and Head of Institutional Clients. Ken will be responsible for strengthening relations across the global consultancy community.
Harvie joins Unigestion from Ignis Asset Management, and brings over 30 years’ experience in the pensions industry. In his role as Client and Consultant Relations Director at Ignis Harvie played a key role
Fund governance firm DMS Offshore Investment Services (DMS) has appointed Westley Chapman as a Director.
Chapman will serve on the boards of investment funds, providing independent oversight on governance and compliance matters. He will also function as Director, Operational Due Diligence and will be based in New York.
As even more investors continue increasing allocations to private funds, investors and managers are spending more time on operational due diligence reviews, plus facing evaluating even more investment opportunities with less available resources.
DMS Operational Due Diligence aims to ease this burden and part of Chapman's role is to advise investors on
Euronext has appointed Maurice van Tilburg as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Euronext Amsterdam with immediate effect, pending regulatory approvals.
Van Tilburg has almost 20 years’ experience in the exchange sector. Until this appointment, he was Head of Business Projects & Design of the European Equity and Equity Derivatives Markets at Euronext, where he was responsible for the process reform of business initiatives and project delivery of new products and services. Prior to that Mr. Van Tilburg was in charge of issuer support and execution of corporate actions across all Euronext Cash Markets in Europe. Van Tilburg started his career
Tradition, an interdealer brokers in over-the-counter commodity and financial products, has hired three experienced market structure professionals to expand its hybrid and electronic businesses.
John Wilson will become Managing Director within Tradition’s Strategy and Business Development unit. A widely respected market professional for over 20 years, Wilson will play a central role in all aspects of Tradition’s strategic, hybrid and electronic initiatives globally.
Prior to joining Tradition, Wilson was Global Head of OTC Clearing at both Newedge and RBS. With extensive buy and sell-side experience, he has represented the industry in EU discussions in relation to cross-border regulatory proposals
Mirabaud Asset Management has recruited André Broijl, Bert Hospers, Sai Kit Lam and George Luijkx from Syntrus Achmea Asset Management to join its fixed income team, led by Andrew Lake, in London.
This move follows a number of high-profile hires over the past 36 months within the asset management division of Mirabaud, as the firm develops its range of capabilities to meet the needs of its wide range of clients. This new credit team has been operating for almost a decade, they have successfully managed over EUR 4 billion of institutional mandates for Dutch pension funds, building one of the
Maples Fund Services has hired Greg Wildes, Senior Vice President – Client Solutions and Relationship Management, to focus on delivering innovative client solutions to new and existing clients.
Based in New York, Wildes will be responsible for managing client relationships and expanding opportunities for continued growth of the fund services business in North America.
Wildes will work closely with Jason Brandt, Regional Head of Fund Services – Americas, and Toni Pinkerton, Global Head of Fund Services, to continue to provide investment managers, institutional investors and family offices custom solutions for their fund administration, middle office and reporting needs. With the
Jeff Sica, founder and Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Circle Squared Alternative Investments (CSQ), has been appointed as a special advisor to the board of venture capital firm AITV.
Sica will now be part of a roster of what we believe to be are world-class subject matter specialists that AITV has assembled. In this capacity, he’ll provide the AITV investment team and, in some cases, the underlying portfolio companies, with strategic, financial, technological and commercial advice in an effort to help optimise returns for their investors. AITV developed this highly profiled and actively engaged network of collaborators ranging from fund
Convergence has appointed Joseph (Joe) Dello Russo, former Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative officer of MFS Investment Management as a Senior Managing Director.
In his role with Convergence, a provider of database, custom data research and advisory services to the alternative asset manager industry, Dello Russo will lead efforts to develop the Company's business platform, with primary focus in the northeast US market.
As a member of the company's Management Committee, Joe will work in partnership with the company's co-Presidents, John Phinney and George Evans, on business strategy, the development and execution of strategic business and customer relationships and
