Week 26 January 2014: People On the Move – Asset Management
” C Nikko Asset Management has welcomed back Naoki Kamiyama after 15 years. Mr Kamiyama rejoins as chief strategist and will sit as a member of the company’s global investment committee. He was most...
View ArticleWeek 02 February 2014: People On the Move – Asset Management
” Geneva-based Unigestion has hired Rudyard Ekindi as head of investment solutions in its equity team. Mr Ekindi was formerly director of investment research at pension scheme Nest (the UK’s National...
View ArticleWeek 09 February 2014: People On the Move – Asset Management
” Shankar Athreya has moved from Singapore, where he was global head of strategy and business development at Olam International, to London to take up a job as head of farmland investments at Insight...
View ArticleThis is a Man’s world? Steep Decline in Number of Female Fund Managers
Female portfolio managers now account for less than 7 per cent of the 7,293 money managers at US mutual fund companies, down from just over 10 per cent in 2009. Despite numerous efforts to try and...
View ArticleAsset Management: ‘Smart beta’ drives down active management fees
So-called “smart beta” products are competing with asset managers, driving down the fees that many financial services firms are able to charge. The entire industry is taking note, as the monetary...
View ArticleWeek 23 February 2015: People On the Move – Asset Management
“Stephanie Ouwendijk has moved from Ashmore Group, where she was a fund manager, to join Franklin Templeton Investments as a portfolio manager in its emerging markets debt opportunities team. C Sarah...
View ArticleWeek 1 March 2015: People On the Move – Asset Management
” Magnus Spence has resigned as chief executive of Dalton Strategic Partnership, the $2bn asset management boutique that he co-founded with Andrew Dalton in 2002. Mr Spence is expected to return to...
View ArticleLobbying: Fidelity, Vanguard, Citadel and BlackRock splash
Lobbying is big business in the US. It’s impossible to fathom a business of a significant size not investing a substantial sum of their money in this practice. In the last year, Fidelity Investments...
View ArticleWeek 16 March 2015: People On the Move – Asset Management
“C Seyi Owodunni has moved to Emerging Capital Partners, the pan-African private equity firm, as managing director of the Nigeria office. Mr Owodunni joins from Kingdom Africa Management, a rival...
View ArticleWeek 23 March 2015: People On the Move – Asset Management
“C Loomis Sayles has promoted Kevin Charleston to chief executive from his previous role as president of the $240bn Boston-based fixed income manager. Mr Charleston succeeds Robert Blanding who will...
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