Aburida Joins PineBridge Investments as Regional CIO
Independent asset manager PineBridge Investments has appointed Wael Aburida as its chief investment officer for the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. Aburida, who has about 20 years of experience,...
View ArticleZyblock Joins Dynamic Funds as Chief Investment Strategist
Dynamic Funds, a unit of Bank of Nova Scotia, hired Myles Zyblock for chief investment strategist as the fund manager reorganizes. Zyblock, previously chief institutional strategist for Royal Bank of...
View ArticleGriffith Joins PENN Capital in Investor Relations for Alternatives Role
Richard Griffith III joined PENN Capital Management Co.’s investor relations team, with primary responsibility for marketing the firm’s alternative investment approaches. Mr. Griffith’s title is...
View ArticleBobolakis Joins CQS as Portfolio Manager
A former managing director and proprietary trader at UBS has shelved plans to launch his own hedge fund and joined Michael Hintze’s $12bn credit specialist CQS instead, reflecting a tough environment...
View ArticleLevy Joins Brummer & Partners
Conrad Levy joins as member of Swedish firm’s new global executive committee…
View ArticleUBS Vet Stainrod Joins HighWater Limited
HighWater Limited has raised the mark again with the appointment of Darren Stainrod, former Managing Director of UBS Cayman and Global Head of Alternatives, to its corporate governance team. Darren has...
View ArticleSix Portfolio Managers Leave UBS O’Connor to Join Hedge Funds
UBS O’Connor, the $5.7 billion hedge-fund unit within Switzerland’s biggest bank, has lost at least six equity traders this year to Millennium Management, BlueCrest Capital Management and Tudor...
View ArticleMather Joins Salt Rock as Investor Relations Manager
Goldman Sachs and Caxton veteran boosts team, targets June launch…
View ArticleTudor Investment Names Giorgianni Chief Economist for Emerging Markets
Hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones has hired one of the International Monetary Fund’s most senior officials in a move highlighting the attraction of private sector careers for top public sector...
View ArticleLamont Joins Stanhope Capital’s Investment Committee
The former Tory chancellor Lord Lamont has joined the ranks of heavyweight business figures on the investment committee of Stanhope Capital, the asset manager growing rapidly by managing money for...
View ArticleDoehla Joins MEMBERS Capital as Director of Alternative Investments
Zachary A. Doehla joined MEMBERS Capital Advisors, the investment management unit of CUNA Mutual Group, as director of alternative investments, confirmed Rick Uhlmann, a CUNA spokesman, in an...
View ArticleCiti’s Global Head of Hedge Fund Investments Frecentese Joins Lyxor Asset...
Frank Frecentese joins from Citi Private Bank to grow North American business…
View ArticleAnderson Global Macro Adds Senior Management as Fund Launches
Keith Anderson has added several senior management team members to his New York-based Anderson Global Macro LLC. Anderson, originally a co-founder of BlackRock, was the Chief Investment Officer of...
View ArticleBoston-Power Founder Lampe-Onnerud Joins Bridgewater Associates
One of Boston’s highest-profile energy entrepreneurs, Christina Lampe-Onnerud, is moving to Connecticut to join one of the world’s biggest hedge fund managers, Bridgewater Associates. Lampe-Onnerud is...
View ArticleAbreu Joins Ellington Management’s Mortgage Division
Ellington Management Group LLC, the $5.5 billion investment firm founded by Michael Vranos that specializes in mortgage-backed bonds, hired Steven Abreu from GMAC Mortgage to start an origination...
View ArticleWhitestone Joins BlackRock as Director and Analyst
BlackRock has appointed Daniel Whitestone as a director in its UK small and mid cap equities team, led by Richard Plackett. Whitestone, who starts on 1 June, will work initially as an analyst for the...
View ArticleThreadneedle Investments’ Vice Chairman of Global Asset Management Retiring
Leading international investment manager Threadneedle Investments (Threadneedle) today announced that Crispin Henderson, former Chief Executive Officer and current Vice Chairman of Global Asset...
View ArticleYannazzo and Mattioli Leave Fund of Funds EIM Group
EIM Group’s U.S. operations continue to dwindle. In the past few weeks, two senior executives have left EIM Management, the U.S. arm of the Swiss firm: chief operating officer Gary Yannazzo and chief...
View ArticleTullman Joins Weiss Multi-Strategy’s Marketing Team
Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers is about to start marketing again after spending the past year or so overhauling its investment operations. The hedge fund arm of George Weiss Associates last month hired...
View ArticleTrader Kirk Joins BlueCrest Capital in New York
BlueCrest Capital has nabbed a former Millennium Management staffer for an equity-trading operation it’s setting up in New York. Chadd Kirk, who worked as an execution trader at Millennium, joined...
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