Unigestion appoints Emanuele Ravano as Chairman of UNI-Global SICAV
Ravano will work closely with Unigestion’s senior management team and will be influential in mentoring and supporting Unigestion’s distribution initiatives. He is particularly well placed, given his previous experience, to support Unigestion’s accelerated distribution plans in (...)
Jupiter appoints Mitesh Patel as Assistant Fund Manager on Japan funds
Jupiter is pleased to announce the appointment of Mitesh Patel as Assistant Fund Manager, Japan Equities. Mitesh will join Jupiter on 3 October, supporting fund manager Dan Carter on the Jupiter Japan Income and Jupiter Japan Select SICAV (...)
Nomura Bolsters Economics Research with Senior Hire in the U.S.
Nomura announced that Mark Doms Ph.D. has joined the firm as a Managing Director and Senior Economist. Mr. Doms will be based in New York and will work closely with Lewis Alexander, Nomura’s Chief U.S. Economist.
Jupiter appoints Alejandro Arevalo to build emerging market debt strategy
Alejandro, who has more than 18 years’ experience of investing in emerging markets, will join Jupiter as a fund manager later this year from Pioneer Investments, where he has worked for four years as an emerging markets corporate debt portfolio (...)
Nomura appoints Wissam Farah as Head of Global Markets Sales, EMEA
Prior to joining Nomura, Mr.Farah was Head of Markets and Security Services for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at Citi, where he led a team responsible for marketing flow and structured products and solutions in rates, credit, FX, commodities, funds and equity (...)
The infrastructure investment joint venture between Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) and London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) has entered a partnership to co-own one of the largest windfarms of its type in (...)
CalPERS Settles Moody’s Negligent Ratings Case for Record $130 Million
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) today announced it has settled its case against Moody’s and Moody’s Investors’ Services (Moody’s) for a record $130 million. The case stemmed from Moody’s erroneous ratings of "AAA" rated structured investment vehicles (...)
The European Investment Bank (EIB), Mirova and Eolus are co-investing in the construction of the Langmarken onshore wind farm located in Värmland County, Sweden. This is the first EIB project in Sweden under the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), at the heart of (...)
AnaCap acquires €2 billion NPL portfolios from GE and RBS
AnaCap Financial Partners (“AnaCap”), the specialist European financial services private equity firm, has announced the successful completion of the acquisition of two portfolios of Italian non-performing loans (NPLs) with a face value of more than €2 (...)