Deutsche Asset & Wealth Boosts its Hedge Fund Advisory Business
Mihir Meswani and Nicolas Laporte were appointed by Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (Deutsche AWM), which is part of the Deutsche Bank Group, one of the world's leading financial services companies, as portfolio managers to strengthen the firm’s hedge fund advisory business.
Both
appointments will focus on advising clients on custom portfolio
solutions and employing liquid alternatives such as managed accounts,
UCITS and ’40 Act funds.
Meswani was most recently a consultant to Mount Yale Capital Group.
Prior
to that, he served as chief investment strategist at Sandalwood
Securities, where he was a member of the investment committee with
direct responsibility for the portfolio management of Sandalwood’s fund
of hedge funds and alternative mutual fund portfolios.
Laporte was most recently a senior portfolio manager of alternative investments for the British Airways Pension Fund.
Previously,
he held positions at Novartis’s pension fund, where he managed
alternative investments, emerging markets and commodities, and HSBC
Private Bank, where he was responsible for the management and
performance of a large number of discretionary and tailor-made hedge
fund mandates.
Martin
Fothergill, global head of hedge funds for Deutsche Asset & Wealth
Management, said: “With this strengthening of the team, we are perfectly
positioned to offer our institutional and private clients the benefits
of our hedge fund platform, risk oversight and portfolio advisory in one
package.”
Source: Asset Servicing Times
