Category: Hedge Funds PeopleFortress Investment Group ($43.7 billion AUM) has appointed Julia Koop as Director of Capital Formation, Fortress Australia. Based in Sydney, she will have responsibility for business development and investor relations in Australia and New Zealand. She reports to Fortress Senior Managing Director and Head of Capital Formation, Stuart Bohart, and was most recently Vice President [...]
Lowenhaupt Global Advisors Australia (LGAA) has appointed Juliet Dunworth (ex-Credit Suisse Private Bank) as an Executive Director. She reports to Sean Cortis, CEO, LGAA. The firm provides family office services to the ultra high-net-worth sector, and is part of St Louis US-based Lowenhaupt Global Advisors. ***** Rob Sullivan has been appointed global head of institutional [...]
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has appointed Fiona Dunn as general manager of joint ventures and institutional. She will lead a team consisting of Stephen Alcorn and Kara Gilmartin who were appointed as head of institutional, and head of joint ventures respectively late last year. Dunn is a former general manager of Perpetual’s wholesale business. AUI [...]
HSBC Securities Services (HSS) Australia has hired Cara Brosnan as part of the sales team for fund services and custody. Cara will report to Rob Brown, Head of Client Management Group, Securities Services, Australia. She joined from HSS’ London-based client management group, where she was responsible for sales in the fund management and insurance sectors. *** The [...]
The $28 billion Melbourne based UniSuper has hired Mark Himpoo to develop an in-house investment strategy, according to I&T News. Himpoo was previously head of fundamental Australian equities at BlackRock. He will report to John Pearce, UniSuperʼs CIO, who leads a 30-strong investment team that manages $6 billion inhouse. *** Macquarie Private Wealth has appointed MarkChartres to its Melbourne office as [...]
Zenith Investment Partners has promoted Christopher Huang to its alternatives team as an investment analyst covering hedge funds. He was previously a data analyst at the firm. *** Jonathan Ayres has been appointed the first head of the new Bank of Melbourne Private. He was previously a senior investment specialist with nabInvest and spent more [...]
Certitude Global Investments has appointed Gary Burke to the newly-created position of Head of Investments. Burke was most recently the Head of Mercer’s investment management business in Australia and NZ. Certitude is part of ASX-listed HFA Holdings, a fund of hedge funds firm. Its investment partners are Threadneedle Asset Management, Marshall Wace GaveKal, and Lighthouse [...]
Treasury Group has appointed Andrew McGill as CEO. He was previously at Crescent Capital Partners, a $750 million private equity firm that he co-founded. Treasury Group chairman Mike Fitzpatrick told InvestorDaily that ‘we have been keen to diversify into alternatives… we are interested in opportunities in the hedge fund space.’ ASX-listed Treasury Group has [...]
Fund incubator Pinnacle Investment Management has appointed Steve Gamerov as director of product and strategy. He was previously at MIR Investment Management. Pinnacle’s suite of eight boutique fund managers has more than $9 billion in AUM, according to the firm’s website. *** Ascalon Capital Managers has appointed Chuak Chan to develop its Asian business. He [...]
