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SuMi TRUST Global Asset Services, a provider of operational and administration support services to institutional asset managers, has completed the enhancement of its Asian business.
SuMi TRUST has strengthened its operational and client service teams in all three centres with all asset servicing and client relationship activity for Japanese and Asian clients now being carried out from Tokyo, supported by the operational and administration centre in Dublin.
The Tokyo-based asset servicing team is composed of sales, dedicated client relationship management and experienced operations staff transferred from SuMi TRUST Dublin office.
“We are very pleased to have completed this
Tristan Thomas has joined Northern Trust’s alternatives group as director of portfolio strategy for hedge funds and Greg Jones has joined as a hedge fund analyst.
As director of portfolio strategy, Thomas is responsible for portfolio construction and monitoring of funds-of-funds and custom programmes and is a member of the team’s senior investment committee.
He joins from Mesirow Financial in Chicago, where he was responsible for the monitoring and sourcing of hedge fund strategies.
Jones is responsible for the sourcing, due diligence, and monitoring of macro, relative value, and commodity strategies across Northern Trust’s hedge fund programme, and
Thomas Conheeney will step down as president of Point72, a family office managing the assets of its founder and chief executive officer, hedge fund manager Steven A Cohen.
Douglas Haynes has been named as Conheeney’s successor.
“I thank Tom for all that he has done during his 15 years at Point72, first as chief operating officer then as president,” says Cohen. “Under Tom’s leadership, Point72’s predecessor, known as SAC Capital, grew into one of the world’s most successful hedge funds. Among his many accomplishments, he led us through the 2008 financial crisis, the 2010 aftershocks and the crisis following
Philippe Teilhard de Chardin, chief executive officer of Advisors & Partners, has agreed to join the advisory board of Common Sense Investment Management.
Teilhard de Chardin was previously the global head of prime brokerage and chairman of the prime brokerage board at Newedge, a division of Société Générale.
Over 22 years working for Newedge and its predecessor Fimat, he founded and managed the prime brokerage business line, ultimately managing a global team of over 175 professionals in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, Geneva, Paris, London, New York, Chicago & San Francisco. The team focused on the provision of prime
Jersey Finance has appointed Robert Christensen as the new chairman of its board in succession to Jonathan White.
Christensen, who has over 35 years of experience in trust and company management services within Jersey, has been the managing director of Volaw Group since 1988, having been a founding director of Volaw in 1982.
He was instrumental in the establishment of Jersey Finance and served as a non-executive director for Jersey Finance from 2000 until 2008.
A member of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners and holding the Trustee Diploma of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, Christensen has
Hong Kong-based asset management company Chartwell Capital has appointed Joe Wan as senior advisor.
As a Certified Public Accountant since 2004, Wan has over 12 years of experience in accounting and mergers and acquisitions consulting.
Before joining Chartwell, Wan was with PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance, where he represented listed corporate clients in making acquisitions and private clients in fund-raising, private equity, and identifying acquisition opportunities.
In his new capacity, Wan will improve Chartwell’s investment research capabilities and keep the company up to date on changes in relevant accounting standards. He will also be involved in identifying small and medium-sized companies in Asia.
“We
BNP Paribas Securities Services has appointed Nick Jenkins as head of technical for trustee and depositary services in the UK.
Jenkins has 30 years’ experience in the trustee and depositary industry.
He joins from Citi where he was head of fiduciary oversight and research.
At BNP Paribas he will work with asset manager clients to help them manage regulatory change and ensure a smooth transition to the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and Ucits V regimes.
“Nick is an expert in how AIFMD and Ucits V apply to UK asset managers. He brings an outstanding wealth
Preqin, the alternative asset industry data and intelligence specialist, has appointed David Brierwood as a non-executive director.
He joined the board on 12 August 2014.
Brierwood holds a wealth of experience in investment data analytics and solutions, most recently in his role as chief operating officer of MSCI, which he held from 2006 to February 2014.
Prior to his role at MSCI, Brierwood worked for Morgan Stanley for 20 years and held a variety of senior positions, including global risk manager of the Morgan Stanley equity division and chief operating officer of Morgan Stanley’s institutional and retail securities
Marc Lim has joined tax firm WTAS as a managing director in the commercial and alternative investment funds practices in the San Francisco office.
Prior to joining WTAS, Lim spent nine years as a tax practitioner in Japan and was a partner at Zeirishi-Hojin PricewaterhouseCoopers in Tokyo.
A Bay Area native, Lim spent six years prior to Tokyo servicing technology clients as an international tax practitioner at both PricewaterhouseCoopers and Arthur Andersen in San Jose, California.
Lim has more than 15 years of experience in international tax consulting to multinational corporate and financial services clients. His practice area
Murano Connect is establishing a presence in Midtown Manhattan and expanding its US analytics team there.
Murano is a London-based firm that provides an “investment dating service,” connecting compatible funds and investors.
Since incorporation in early 2011, Murano has expanded its client base outside of the UK and Europe and now works with a range of managers worldwide.
“Being London-based is a major advantage and allows us to have global reach. We start the day calling investors in Asia and finish the afternoon in the US," says Kristen Meehan, head of North American sales.
Murano initially established
