People
Amundi has appointed Benedicte Rabier as Senior Product Specialist, Amundi Alternative Investments, based in the firm’s London office.
Rabier will help to drive the development of Amundi’s alternative investment solutions notably for the UK market including relationships with local consultants. She reports to Michael Hart, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Amundi Alternative Investments, who also recently joined the Group in London.
Rabier has over 13 years’ experience within Alternative investments. Before joining Amundi AI, she worked as a Sector Specialist focused on alternative investments for Allenbridge Epic. For the previous 10 years, Rabier worked as a trader on the equity
Castle Harbour Securities has appointed Eric Daniel, the former Head of Equity Derivatives and Convertible Bond Sales at Citigroup in Paris, to co-manage its new global convertible bond fund.
He will run the Castle Harbour R&D – Pure Global Convertibles Fund with Damien Regnier, previously Portfolio Manager for global convertible bonds at Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, who joined Castle Harbour Securities in October.
The boutique financial firm, which provides a range of merchant banking, asset management, trading and advisory services, has also nominated the following people to the fund’s Investment Committee: Kais Laouiti, MD, Castle Harbour Securities; Josh
LNG Capital has appointed Holly Grainger as Co-Manager of its flagship LNG Europa Credit Fund. She will run the fund alongside LNG Capital’s CEO & Founder Louis Gargour.
Grainger joined the firm in February 2014 and has over 15 years of investment experience, in both the corporate credit & equity markets, having previously held senior investment management positions at Baring Asset Management, Aviva Investors and F&C Asset Management. Grainger has a BA in French and German from the University of Exeter, holds the Investment Management Certificate and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
LNG Capital has also recruited three
AFEX a provider of solutions for hedge funds and private equity houses to manage currency risk and international cash flows has joined the California Hedge Fund Association (CHFA) as a premier Founders’ Club member.
The CHFA is a non-profit, member based organisation founded to foster the growth and development of the hedge fund community in California through advocacy of sound business practices, events, resources and educational programs.
“We’re pleased to have AFEX as a Founders’ Club member and see them as thought leaders for the hedge fund community, helping managers realize greater efficiencies on foreign exchange rates and fees,” says Jason
RFA (Richard Fleishman & Associates) has appointed George Ralph as Managing Director of RFA UK. The firm has also announced it's intention to open two new data centres in January.
They will help the firm to provide its full portfolio of services to the UK and European asset management community, including RFA Cloud, disaster recovery, and outsourced IT, design, and implementation services. The expansion of the UK office represents RFA's continued progress from an industry pioneer to a leading global firm.
Prior to joining RFA, George founded and grew three separate technology companies (one of which provided advice and service improvement
Carne Group has made two hires in its Irish office to support the increasing demand for its AIFMD management company services, including its independent ‘mancos’ in Ireland, Luxembourg and the Channel Islands.
Neil Clifford joins Carne from Irish Life Investment Managers where he was Head of Alternatives and oversaw an external hedge funds portfolio. He has also supervised ILIM’s illiquid investments in private equity and infrastructure, including acting as an independent director on a number of investee companies. Neil is a former equity fund manager and a qualified risk management professional.
Martin Anderson also joins Carne, having previously held
Gregory LaFiura has joined the Investcorp’s hedge funds business as a Principal in the Manager Research Team with a focus on long/short equity strategies.
In this role, LaFiura will have primary responsibility on sourcing and conducting due diligence on equity managers for its fund of hedge funds and seeding platforms. He will also be responsible for evaluating equity co-investment opportunities for its Special Opportunity Portfolios. LaFiura will be a member of the Hedge Funds Manager Recommendation and Investment Universe Committees.
Commenting on the hire, Lionel Erdely, Head and Chief Investment Officer of Hedge Funds. says: "We continue to enhance
Tech startup iMatchative, parent company of the data analytics product, AltX, has landed David Walker as its new Senior Vice President of Operations.
A veteran business executive, David brings more than 30 years of Federal Reserve experience in both domestic and international financial institution supervision. Most recently, he spearheaded the formation of the Analysis and Reporting Technology Support Office in response to the significant growth in unstructured data collection for supervisory purposes. David also led efforts to reengineer local and enterprise support services, including the implementation of new document and resource management systems and the prioritisation of technology solutions.
“It's
The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Börse AG has reappointed Hauke Stars, a member of the Deutsche Börse Executive Board, for five years with effect from 1 December 2015.
Hauke Stars (47) has been a member of the Executive Board since December 2012 and is responsible for the Information Technology & Market Data + Services Division. Her directorships include membership on the Board of Directors of Eurex Zürich AG, the Supervisory Board of Eurex Frankfurt AG and the Board of Directors of ISE and of Clearstream Services AG. In addition, she is also a member of the Supervisory Board of Klöckner
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Teachers’) has appointed Jo Taylor as Managing Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and head of the London office.
In his new role, Taylor retains primary responsibility for Teachers’ Private Capital and private equity investments in the region while assuming oversight for the full cycle of opportunity origination, analysis, value creation and execution of investment activities across asset classes.
In addition to setting the tone and direction of Teachers’ investment activities in the EMEA market, Mr. Taylor, who joined the organisation in 2012, will guide all advisory relationships within the region and
