Alternative investment specialist Omni Partners has appointed John Jenkins as chief executive of CBFL, the captive origination platform for the firm’s lending business and the Omni Secured Lending Fund. Jenkins joins CBFL after eight years as chief executive of GE […]
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GE Capital Vet Jenkins Joins Omni Partners
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De Espinosa and Griffiths Join Highbridge Capital in London
The hedge fund Highbridge Capital Management, which sees big opportunities in Europe and is on a hiring spree to make inroads there, has just scooped up two portfolio managers. Juan Lamo de Espinosa left York Capital Management two weeks ago […]
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Gilraine Leaves Whard Stewart Asset Management to Join Morgan Stanley
In another sign that investment banks are stepping up efforts to stem the talent flow to the buy-side, Morgan Stanley has hired a partner from a hedge fund set up by JPMorgan prop traders just two years ago. Robert Gilraine, a […]
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Walsh Joins Investcorp to Source Emerging Hedge Fund Talent
David Walsh has joined $11.3 billion hedge fund investor Investcorp. In his new role, Walsh’s responsibility will be to identify and source emerging hedge fund talent, and to structure and develop relationships with these managers…
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Brass Joins Majedie Asset Management to Run Equity Funds
Boutique investment manager Majedie Asset Management has hired Fidelity’s Adrian Brass to run two new global equity funds as well as an American equity fund. Mr Brass previously ran global equity funds at Investec Asset Management and when he joined […]
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Miller Joins AlphaHedge Capital as Senior Vice President
AlphaHedge Capital Partners, a liquid alternatives platform, has appointed J Michael Miller as senior vice president, investor relations to head up sales, marketing and relationship management. Miller previously served as managing principal at Bandon Capital Management, a liquid alternative investment […]
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Former Head of Asia at FX Concepts Lock Planning Hedge Fund Launch
Bernard Lock, the former Asia head of the shuttered New York-based FX Concepts – which was one of the largest currency hedge funds in the world before it went bankrupt late last year - is understood to be preparing to launch his own […]
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Levy-Marchal Joins Capula Investment Management in Hong Kong
JPMorgan’s head of Asia equities trading, Cyril Levy-Marchal, has joined Capula Investment Management’s expanding Hong Kong office. Levy-Marchal joined Capula at the end of April as a portfolio manager, having previously spent 10 years at JPMorgan in both London and […]
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Steel Named CEO of Perella Weinberg Partners
Robert K Steel has joined investment advisory and asset management firm Perella Weinberg Partners as chief executive officer, with effect from 7 July 2014. Joseph Perella will continue in an active role as chairman, while co-founders Terry Meguid and Peter […]
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Pawlolski Leaves BNP Paribas to Join Finisterre Capital
Bartosz Pawlolski named portfolio manager on sovereign debt fund…
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Evans Joining New York City Retirement Systems as Chief Investment Officer
Scott Evans, a former head of asset management for TIAA-CREF, will be the next chief investment officer of New York City’s $150 billion pension system, according to the city comptroller, Scott M. Stringer. The comptroller, as legal custodian of New […]
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Chan and Goldberg Join PIMCO as Portfolio Managers
Pacific Investment Management Co. has hired Rick Chan and Jason Goldberg as executive vice presidents and portfolio managers. In Chan and Goldberg’s new roles at California-based PIMCO, the pair will focus on equity and interest rate derivative strategies…
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CEO of South Africa Pension Fund Masilela Resigning
Elias Masilela resigned as CEO of the 1.6 trillion South African rand ($151.3 billion) pension fund Public Investment Corp., effective June 30…
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Powe Joining GLG as Portfolio Manager
Today’s announcement that veteran fund manager Rory Powe is joining GLG as portfolio manager on its European equity team is unlikely to send your Twitter feed crazy. Nor is he likely to be hosting investment dinners, with journalists fawning over him, his […]
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Lanigan Joining Tesco Pension to Cover Alternatives
Tesco Pension Investment has appointed a former private equity, debt and alternatives specialist at the Kuwaiti sovereign wealth fund to enhance its alternatives coverage, aiCIO has learned. Stuart Lanigan, who spent five months at the Kuwait Investment Authority’s London bureau, the Kuwait […]
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Levett Returning to Moore Capital
Chris Levett, who shut his commodity hedge-fund firm in 2013 after it posted almost three straight years of losses, plans to return to the industry with billionaire Louis Bacon’s Moore Capital Management LLC. Levett, 44, will join New York-based Moore in […]
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Altaf Leaves Fulcrum Asset Management to Join Artemis Fund Managers
Artemis Fund Managers has hired a manager to work alongside Philip Wolstencroft and Peter Saacke on its SmartGarp funds. Raheel Altaf has joined from Fulcrum Asset Management, having previously spent nine years at Fidelity International, latterly as lead portfolio manager […]
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Wellington Management Vet Sznajer Joins Silvaris Capital
Silvaris Capital Management, an equities hedge fund launched last year by Algebris Investments co-founder Eric Halet, has hired Michel Sznajer as a partner covering emerging markets. Sznajer previously spent more than a decade as an industrials analyst and fund manager […]
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Schonfeld Group Holdings Added 15 Portfolio Managers Over Last 18 Months
Schonfeld Group Holdings, a family office with a seeding platform, has been on something of a hiring spree. The firm, which allocates trading and risk capital to internal and external portfolio managers, has added 15 managers focused on fundamental equity […]
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Derbyshire Leaves TCI to Join Duet Group
Mark Derbyshire, a partner at high-profile activist hedge fund firm The Children’s Investment Fund Management (U.K.) LLP, has left to join a rival hedge fund. Mr. Derbyshire, a senior lawyer at TCI who had been at the London-based firm for […]
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