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Fairhills Group has hired Steven DiNunzio, CFA as Principal and Chief Financial Officer. Fairhills Group is a New York-based alternative asset management firm originally founded as the family office of Mr. Edward Bronson, a veteran principal investor and former telecom entrepreneur.
The appointment of DiNunzio comes as Fairhills expands its principal investment operations to include the incubation of experienced portfolio managers in new hedge fund strategies. Ultimately, these new funds will be offered to outside investors. Fairhills has recently sought external capital to expand its equity financing strategy and has announced its first seeding project as that of a niche
OVS Capital, the European equity focused event driven investment manager is expanding its investment team with two new appointments; Manuel Blanco and Zac Lewis.
Blanco (pictured) joins OVS as an Analyst, having previously worked as a Senior Equity Analyst at Trafalgar Asset Managers, the multi-billion dollar event driven fund where his responsibilities included idea generation, analysis and trade construction across a range of hard and soft catalyst trades.
Prior to his time at Trafalgar, Blanco worked in Citigroup’s UK investment banking team in the Financial Sponsors Group working on multiple private and public transactions. Blanco is a qualified lawyer having
Eric Greenhut has joined alternative investment manager Ramius as a Managing Director and Head of Quantitative Trading.
Ramius’ quantitative trading platform was developed in-house and has been deploying proprietary capital through systematic trading programs since early 2010. Ramius is now seeking to expand and diversify the platform in order to enhance returns to proprietary capital and ultimately create systematic trading products for Ramius’ clients.
In a newly created role, Greenhut will be responsible for the management and development of the group, including the ongoing search for premier quantitative traders, researchers, and programmers. Greenhut will report to Thomas W. Strauss, President
CBOE Holdings has appointed Alexandra M Albright in the newly created role of Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) for its affiliated exchanges – the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), C2 Options Exchange (C2), CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) and CBOE Stock Exchange (CBSX).
Albright, who will assume the CCO position on April 23, will report to President and COO Edward T. Tilly and to the regulatory oversight committees of the exchanges.
Albright’s broad responsibilities include establishing, implementing and maintaining policies and procedures that apply to the affiliated exchanges’ self-regulatory organization obligations, and ensuring that exchange operations comply with both the exchanges’ rules and
Alternative investment firm SkyBridge Capital has expanded its global distribution footprint with the addition of five new members to its sales team and new partnerships with major distribution platforms.
SkyBridge manages or advises on approximately USD6.2 billion of assets (as of 29 February, 2012) across a fully-integrated suite of hedge fund products, addressing every type of market participant from large institutional investors to individual retail investors. On the back of the firm’s ongoing asset growth and to address the needs of its clients and distribution partners, the expansion is being supported by the addition of five people to its Global
Rialto Capital, a Zurich based Global Macro Hedge Fund founded by Gerard Sanz (ex Man Investments), has added Giacomo Berta to its team.
Since its debuting in Q3 2011, the firm has been providing investors with alpha absolute returns through its Rialto GlobalMacro Fund, showing very low correlation to the major asset classes. The Fund is currently +10% since inception, with -1.64% as worst month.
Rialto GlobalMacro currently invests in liquid Futures, with 50% of its assets in Equities and an equal amount between Bonds, Currencies and Commodities. Strategies involved are mainly focused on Relative Value Arbitrage with constant Risk
Man Group plc (‘Man’), the global alternative investment manager has appointed Ravi Chari as co-Head of Foreign Exchange at AHL, its systematic managed futures manager.
Chari has a 12-year career in systematic trading at hedge funds. He joins Man from IKOS Asset Management, where he headed the group’s Futures and FX funds. Prior to joining IKOS in January 2010, Chari was a Portfolio Manager at Millennium Partners, running FX strategies. He spent five years with DKR Capital before joining Millennium and prior to that he was at Caxton Associates for two years.
Tim Wong (pictured), Chief Executive of AHL,
S&P Capital IQ has appointed Barbara Reguero to lead the group’s award-winning global independent research operations, which includes Equity, ETF and mutual fund analyst teams in New York, London and Singapore.
In this new role, Reguero will direct S&P Capital IQ’s global independent research organisation of 65 analysts while collaborating with product teams to develop and improve new and existing products for wealth managers and financial advisors and create new offerings for global institutional and trading clients.
"We are very pleased to welcome Barbara Reguero as Managing Director of Cross-Asset-Class Research," says Lou Eccleston, President, S&P Capital IQ and S&P
Aquila Capital, the Hamburg-based alternative investment company, has appointed Armin Gudat as Senior Fund Manager. Gudat will be responsible for Aquila Capital’s quantitative funds.
Gudat joins Aquila Capital from AXA Rosenberg, the specialist active global equity investment management firm, where he was responsible for managing relationships with supporting institutional investors in Germany, continental Europe and the Middle East. He has over 20 years experience as a portfolio manager and product specialist, having worked across a range of asset classes, including equities, fixed income, currencies, asset allocation and hedge funds.
Gudat previously held various roles at key German banks, such as
Oak Hill Advisors (OHA) has promoted William H Bohnsack, Jr (pictured) to President. Bohnsack has served as the investment management firm’s Chief Operating Officer since 2001 and one of its four senior partners since 2005.
As President, Bohnsack will have expanded oversight of several activities at OHA, including firm management, business development and strategic initiatives. In executing these and other responsibilities, he will continue to work alongside the firm’s other senior partners, including Mr. August, Scott D. Krase and Robert Okun.
Glenn R August, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of OHA, says: “Bill has been an outstanding partner and
