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Gloria Pfaue and Andreas Heuer are to be the new managing directors of Eurex Bonds with effect from 1 July 2014.
The Deutsche Börse subsidiary is an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities and treasury discount papers between banks.
Business administration graduate Pfaue has been a consultant for Eurex Bonds since 2010. Prior to that, she was responsible for the German-speaking region at EuroMTS in London, and spent over ten years in various specialist and management roles at the Unicredit Group.
Business graduate Heuer spent 14 years in various management positions within Deutsche Börse Group, where he in
RWC has appointed Matteo Cianfoni and Roderick Loffler to its sales team to bolster resources in Italy and the UK.
Cianfoni, who will join RWC in August, was responsible for Italian sales at GLG for almost five years having previously worked at Morgan Stanley in the equity derivatives division.
Loffler has been at RWC for three years and joins the sales team from his previous role within client services.
In addition, RWC recently hired Jillian Smythe and Flora Summerfield. Smythe worked at Plurimi Capital having spent more than four years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Prime Brokerage.
Sancus Capital, a hedge fund that specialises in diversified credit products, has hired Shelly Baldwin as business development and investor relations manager.
Baldwin is reuniting with her ex-Goldman Sachs colleagues at Sancus where her primary focus will be new business development.
Baldwin was most recently at Varadero Capital where she was focused on investor relations. She also held a marketing role at AXA and spent eight years as a quantitative analyst at Goldman Sachs.
“We are pleased to have someone with Shelly’s background joining Sancus. Shelly’s depth of experience in investor relations and business development is exceptional,” says
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has appointed Gretchen Lowe as principal deputy director and chief counsel in the commission’s division of enforcement.
Lowe was acting director of the division until the recent appointment of Aitan Goelman as director.
“Gretchen’s skill and expertise are invaluable to the CFTC, and I am pleased she will have this senior role in the enforcement division,” says CFTC chairman Tim Massad.
Prior to her appointment as acting director, Lowe was the chief counsel of the division. During most of her tenure at the Commission, Lowe served as an associate director. Lowe
Stenham Asset Management has appointed Gary Rynhoud as global head of business development, while Lydia Carroll has assumed the position of business development manager.
Rynhoud has over 15 years’ international sales experience in the asset management industry and has built and managed a sales team to cover a global network of clients.
Rynhoud has held various senior positions at Man Investments which he joined in 1997 and was most recently deputy head of sales at Man Investments (Middle East).
In his role as global head of business development, he will work closely with Damian Brannan, managing director to
Gazprombank Asset Management has appointed Igor Kan to the position of vice-president and head of structured products portfolio management and trading.
Aylin Suntay, first vice-president of Gazprombank and CEO of Gazprombank Asset Management, says: “We are very glad to welcome Igor to our investment management team where we believe he will play a key role to further develop our product strategy and line-up. He will oversee our fast growing structured products asset management business for both corporate and institutional investors and HNW clients.”
Prior to joining Gazprombank Kan worked for Russian Regional Development Bank, a subsidiary of Rosneft, as
Conor McCarthy has joined brokerage and trading services provider ConvergEx Group as chief financial officer.
McCarthy will oversee all of ConvergEx’s global financial operations and will serve on the firm’s Executive Committee, responsible for providing organisational guidance and governance.
“I am excited to have Conor join the ConvergEx leadership team, as he brings an impressive 30-year track record as the chief financial officer, controller or treasurer for many leading financial institutions,” says Eric Noll, ConvergEx Group president and CEO. “His skills are perfect for us as we continue to drive our business forward into new markets and develop innovative
TABB Group has named industry veteran Anthony J Perrotta, Jr as its new head of fixed income research, reporting to Larry Tabb, founder and chief executive.
Perrotta, the former CEO of fixed income consultancy Cornerstone Resources, will be responsible for directing TABB’s research alliance fixed income practice, which serves rates and credit market institutional investors, focusing on market structure, regulatory reform, trading, operational and technology issues impacting corporate bonds, Treasuries, swaps and other credit and rate derivatives in the US, Europe and Asia.
“Our fixed income practice is one of our four core strengths. The addition of Anthony to
Cantor Fitzgerald has strengthened its prime services business with the additions of Paul Mandile, David Sklar and Robert Marietta.
Mandile will serve as managing director of outsourced trading, Sklar will serve as senior vice president focused on electronic trading sales and Marietta will serve as director in the firm's client service team.
"The expansion of our prime services business has been a key focus for us. Hiring seasoned professionals like Paul, David and Robert, with deep market knowledge and extensive relationships, underscores our dedication to providing top notch client service and expanding our market franchise," says Shawn P
Towers Watson has appointed Craig Baker to the new role of global chief investment officer, responsible for all aspects of the company’s investment philosophy and process.
Chris Mansi will take on the new role of global delegated CIO, with responsibility for the construction and management of delegated clients’ portfolios.
The appointments are effective immediately.
Chris Ford, global head of Investment at Towers Watson, says: “In order to provide a competitive advantage for our clients we have to make the best possible use of our global resources, both in finding investment ideas and in helping our clients decide which
