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Timothy A Spangler has joined Sidley Austin in Los Angeles as a partner and member of Sidley’s global investment funds, advisers and derivatives practice.
Spangler brings extensive experience in advising clients on an array of investment vehicles and related securities and regulatory issues.
Spangler served as chair of the investment funds group at his prior firm. He has worked on a wide range of funds, including hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds and funds of funds. He also has experience with funds investing in particular countries or sectors across numerous jurisdictions including the US, UK, Cayman Islands,
Brownstone Investment Group, a fixed income investment firm, has expanded its municipal trading and electronic market making units with the hiring of Matthew Martines as managing director.
Martines joins Paul Sitarz, a seasoned muni expert with more than 30 years of experience, who came to Brownstone last year to launch its municipal bond business. Brownstone trader Josh Rosenblum rounds out the muni team.
Martines comes to Brownstone from Morgan Stanley, where he spent more than 15 years in various leadership roles within fixed income trading and electronic market making.
“Brownstone has an impressive track record and a top-notch
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe has expanded its credit fixed income sales and trading team with the appointment of Jose Contreras and David Coffey in London.
Contreras will focus on high yield, distressed and asset-backed securities in Spain and Portugal and Coffey will focus on sales and sourcing for investment grade, high yield, leveraged, distressed and aircraft bonds and loans.
"One of our top priorities is to aggressively grow our fixed income business and global distribution platform in key markets. We continually evaluate opportunities to build out our team to expand our service offering to clients and drive growth of our
Krusen Capital Management has appointed Jeffrey Volk as chief operating officer and David X Martin as senior risk advisor.
“We are fortunate to have such experienced financial services professionals join the firm as we embark on expanding our alternatives solutions platform while continuing our commitment to best practices,” says Charles Krusen, chief executive. “The need for alternative investments with their lower volatility is being driven by a combination of the baby boomers entering retirement, the continued increase in longevity, and the beginning of a secular bear market for fixed income. As members of the management committee, Jeff and David will
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe is further expanding its European structured credit desk with the appointment of Sheil Aggarwal as managing director.
Aggarwal will focus on asset-back securities, mortgage-backed securities and collateralized loan obligations (CLO), and will be based in London.
"Sheil brings to Cantor a deep understanding of the structured credit market and will substantially add to our existing resources and capabilities. His appointment underscores Cantor's continuing commitment to providing clients with world-class expertise in key local markets," says Shawn P Matthews, chief executive officer of Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. "As we continue to grow and expand our platform in
Misys has appointed Martin Häring as chief marketing officer. He joins the business from the cloud-based content and application delivery network provider Akamai, where he was vice president marketing and channels.
Häring’s role is to strengthen the Misys brand and augment the customer and partner marketing organisation. His remit includes aligning marketing operations more closely to the sales and services teams, ensuring it is able to support the business fully as Misys continues along its growth trajectory.
Frank Brienzi, president and chief sales officer, says: “Martin Häring joins Misys as the company enters a new phase of rapid growth. We
BI-SAM, a provider of performance measurement and attribution, risk analytics, composites management and client reporting solutions for the global asset management industry, has appointed Andrew Frongello as director of learning and development.
In this role, Frongello will be responsible for coordinating BI-SAM's client training programmes.
Frongello is a performance analysis and risk management expert, with 15 years' experience in investment management performance. Creator of the "Frongello Method" for linking single period arithmetic attribution results, he has published many papers in the Journal of Performance Measurement, and was a contributing author of the CFA Institute's CIPM performance designation exams.
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Liquid Holdings Group, a cloud-based technology and managed services provider to the global hedge fund and active trading markets, has expanded its senior team.
Ralph Lafferty, formerly of Eze Software Group, joined as head of west coast sales, and financial services veteran Jim P Lee joined as chief administrative officer (CAO).
Based in the San Francisco Bay area, Lafferty will work with the growing community of hedge funds on the West Coast seeking a cost effective platform that requires no IT or operations footprint to run mission-critical aspects of their business such as trading, risk management, and reporting as
Signia Wealth has appointed Michael Rosenthal as head of hedge fund investment.
The appointment marks a key development in the hedge fund proposition from the entrepreneurially led boutique wealth manager. Rosenthal brings significant expertise and experience in the hedge fund asset class across the US, European, Asia Pacific and Japanese markets.
Rosenthal joins the firm from Amundi Asset Management, where he was global co-head of hedge fund investment and head of the firm’s London office. In the 10 years he was there assets under management grew from USD1.5bn to USD27bn with the business becoming one of the top five
ICAP has appointed Laurent Paulhac as a managing director and chief executive of ICAP SEF (US), reporting to Michael Spencer, ICAP’s group chief executive officer.
Based in New York, Paulhac (pictured) will be responsible for leading ICAP’s global SEF initiative as well as the SEF’s strategic direction with regard to new regulatory reforms and the company’s alliances and partnerships with exchanges and CCPs. Paulhac will also be involved in managing i-Swap in the US, ICAP’s electronic trading platform for OTC interest rate derivatives.
Paulhac joins from the CME Group where he was senior managing director for interest rate and
