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Alternative investment provider Altegris has named Robert J Murphy as deputy chief investment officer.
Murphy will report to and work closely with Jack Rivkin, chief investment officer of Altegris.
He will join Altegris' investment committee and will be assuming specific portfolio and risk management responsibilities. Murphy joins Altegris after serving as the chief investment officer, co-portfolio manager and director of risk for Hatteras Alternative Mutual Funds, a subsidiary of Hatteras Funds, for the past five years.
"I am very pleased Bob has joined our team," says Rivkin. "He brings over 30 years of experience in asset management and
Mirabaud has seen strong growth in Spain in 2013, including a 400 per cent rise in the volume of SICAV and fund assets under management compared with 2012.
The number of SICAVs managed by Mirabaud rose from 10 in December 2012 to 36 in June 2014. This is a 260 per cent rise and makes the group one the most active players in the Spanish SICAV market.
Meanwhile, the Mirabaud Equities Spain fund, managed from Barcelona by Antonio Hormigos and Gemma Hurtado, is rated as one of Spain's top five equities funds. In the past year it multiplied AUM
The Prytania Group has appointed Jim Irvine, formerly head of fixed income at Henderson Global Investors, as chief executive officer with effect from 1 September 2014.
Irvine will be responsible for Prytania Investment Advisors’ asset management and investment advisory activities and Prytania Solutions’ valuations, modelling and analytical services.
Joe Cook, retiring chief executive who will remain on the board of Prytania as a director, says: "We are delighted to have Jim join us as chief executive. Jim’s wealth of experience and in-depth knowledge of structured finance and the wider credit markets will be of great service to Prytania and
Markit has appointed Matthew Kolby as head of investor relations.
He reports to Jeff Gooch, chief financial officer, and is based in New York.
Kolby has more than 17 years of corporate and advisory investor relations experience. He joins Markit from Deutsche Bank where he was director of investor relations, responsible for all aspects of investor communications in North America.
Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 2011, he was the global head of investor relations advisory in JP Morgan's Depositary Receipts division where he established and led a global team of investor relations specialists who advised non US
BCS Financial Group has appointed Matthieu Ressencourt as managing director and head of equity derivatives trading in London.
Ressencourt joins from VTB Capital where he headed up the equity volatility trading until departing in March 2014.
He was one of the founding members of the equity volatility trading team in 2008 at VTB Capital and helped to develop both the institutional client business and options market making activity on LSE Derivatives, Eurex and the Moscow Derivatives Exchange.
Ressencourt began his career with Credit Agricole where he worked in both New York and Paris as an equity derivatives trader
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions for hedge funds and private equity funds, has hired Jonathan Bohrer as chief financial officer, effective 30 June.
Bohrer will be based in New York and will report to Chris Grandi, chief executive officer of Abacus Group.
Bohrer brings over 18 years of experience in finance and operations across a diverse set of industries. As CFO, he will oversee the company’s financial and accounting activities along with other administrative and operational functions including human resources, real estate and legal.
Most recently he served as managing director of finance at ConvergEx
Marinus Capital Advisors, an asset manager providing comingled and customised credit solutions for institutional investors, has appointed Anthony DiNota as head of business development, a newly created position.
An experienced alternative investments professional and former lawyer, DiNota comes to Marinus from Citigroup, where he was the senior member of the capital introductions team at the bank’s prime brokerage unit in New York.
Prior to Citi, he was part of the capital introductions team at Merrill Lynch’s prime brokerage in New York.
“Tony has a diverse background and skill-set that will complement our growing team,” says Najib Canaan, chief
William O’Brien has left his position as president of BATS Global Markets with immediate effect.
Chief executive Joe Ratterman has reassumed the additional role of president.
Ratterman previously held both the CEO and president roles from June 2007 through January 2014. He joined BATS in June 2005 as a founding employee.
The full executive team will report directly to Ratterman.
Imagine Software has appointed Brendan Quinn as director of sales.
Based in New York, Quinn will oversee sales for Imagine’s New York, London, Hong Kong and Sydney offices.
Scott Sherman, one of Imagine’s founding partners and global head of sales and business development, says: “Brendan brings to Imagine extensive global institutional and technology expertise, and we are excited he has joined our talented team to lead this crucially important role."
Quinn previously served as the head of North American fixed income sales for Thomson Reuters, where he led a team of specialists growing flagship products for the company.
Saxo Bank has appointed Alessandro Bressan as global head of equity products.
Saxo’s aim is to build product coverage across all main asset classes to meet the needs of both sophisticated individual investors and its growing institutional client base.
Bressan will be based in London where he will also assume responsibility for UK sales covering European clients as well, reporting to Dennis Malamatinas, global head of regions and global marketing.
He joins Saxo Bank with more than 15 years’ experience in equity sales and trading, most recently at Deutsche Bank where he was global head of dbIntegrate sales,
