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Horizon Cash Management, an investment advisor specialising in active cash management solutions for the alternative investment industry, has hired Matthew Boice as vice president and credit analyst.
Boice works closely with the portfolio management team and chief investment officer and is responsible for portfolio credit research. In this capacity, he seeks to identify both opportunities and potential trouble spots in the fixed income marketplace before they become industry knowledge.
Michael Markowitz, president, Horizon Cash Management, says: “It is increasingly clear that volatility in the market is driven equally by economic, political and regulatory metrics that require careful monitoring
James Clunie will be appointed manager of the Jupiter Absolute Return Fund with effect from 1 September 2013.
Clunie (pictured), who joined Jupiter on 15 July 2013, will take over the GBP482m fund from Philip Gibbs, who will be retiring from fund management in October 2014.
In his 24 year career in investment management, Clunie has developed a strong reputation for managing absolute return strategies. As manager of the equity long/short SWIP UK Flexible Strategy Fund, he delivered attractive risk adjusted returns of 23.1 per cent during the three years to 22 April 2013 against 2.4 per cent
Cognios Capital, a private independent investment management firm, has appointed Francisco J Bido as head of quantitative research and portfolio manager.
Through extensive research and analysis of risk-adjusted strategies, Bido will strengthen Cognios Capital’s proprietary ROTA/ROME valuation approach and investment strategies.
“Francisco has a long history of quantitative excellence that will be instrumental in advancing our risk management discipline,” says John Brandmeyer, chief executive officer of Cognios Capital. “His expertise in computational finance and econometrics, coupled with his experience implementing and monitoring quantitative investment strategies and risk management models will prove invaluable as we continue to grow our asset
Tyler Page, global head of business development for Guggenheim Fund Solutions, has become Guggenheim Partners’ head of hedge fund solutions for Europe based in London.
Prior to this appointment as head of hedge fund solutions for Europe, Page led marketing efforts resulting in several billion dollars of commitments to the Guggenheim hedge fund managed account platform.
"We are growing our business rapidly throughout Europe as institutional investors seek to improve the quality and transparency of the hedge fund reporting they receive, address a shifting regulatory environment and improve their own risk management," says Page.
"European institutions have
Highland Capital Management, a provider of registered alternative investments, has hired six regional sales directors in the Pacific Northwest, Florida, North Texas, Long Island, the Midwest and Southeast, and expanded its sales team at its home office in Dallas.
Anthony Wilson (San Francisco), Derek Andersen (Florida), Kevin Wentworth (Texas), Joseph Kearney (Long Island), Chris Shahda (Atlanta) and Tom Antonovich (Minneapolis) join a growing team of sales professionals.
Highland expects to continue its expansion to a total of 30 sales professionals over the next year and has additional plans to add a director of marketing later this year.
Alternative investment firm Collins Capital has appointed Casey Wamsley as director.
Collins Capital helps advisers balance their clients’ traditional equities and fixed income exposure with diversified hedge fund portfolios that do not correlate with other asset classes.
In his role, Wamsley will focus on a number of initiatives, including educating clients on the benefits of alternative investments. Wamsley, who will focus on both the mutual fund and limited partnership sides of Collins Capital, will work very closely with Dorothy Weaver, the co-founder, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of the firm.
"Our goal is to build
Hedge fund advisory boutique Atrato Advisors has appointed Abigail Corcoran as managing director, head of business development.
Most recently, Corcoran was vice president of client development at Sandalwood Securities, the New Jersey-based multi-manager shop.
Previously, she was a relationship manager within Credit Suisse Private Bank.
Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Corcoran spent three years at advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather, developing brand strategy for the firm’s financial services clients.
"We are beyond thrilled to have Abby come aboard," says Atrato’s president Brian Reich. "Her leadership and knowledge of the family office and institutional investor community were
UK-based Liquidity Finance is expanding its activities across the Atlantic with a new office opening in Stamford, Connecticut in the US.
Headed by ex-Knight Capital Group and UBS AG Dan Mullineaux (pictured), working alongside ex-head of EM trading at Goldman Sachs Robert McDonald, the expansion of Liquidity Finance to the US mirrors developments in the market, as clients are moving increasingly towards alternative sources of liquidity.
With its unique electronic order matching platform, developed in-house, Liquidity Finance has received good traction and market shares in Europe, and will now be expanding its focus to the US and Latin American client base.
Liquidity co-founder Faisal Mian says: “The US
Dr Markus Stricker has joined Twelve Capital, the specialist insurance investment manager, as a partner responsible for risk management.
Stricker will further drive the development of Twelve Capital’s proprietary analytical tools.
He studied mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) where he obtained his PhD. He also attended courses in risk and credit management in the Executive MBA Programme at Stanford Business School, as well as other numerous courses in risk management and finance.
Stricker’s experience in risk and capital management stems from previous positions at SwissRe, Aon ReSolution, as well as consulting experience for
Kinetic Partners, an adviser to the financial services industry, has appointed Gary Ashford as a member within the firm’s global tax team.
This new appointment further enhances Kinetic Partners’ capabilities across the alternative investment tax spectrum, while also creating a new area of expertise within the practice.
As an expert in offshore tax risk and investigation matters, Ashford (pictured) will assist clients, financial institutions and fiduciary companies in relation to the various FATCA intergovernmental agreements, global transparency and voluntary tax disclosure facility industry, the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility, the Swiss/UK tax agreement and general asset preservation.
Ashford joins
