Ascension Health, which has $15 billion in assets between its pension and operating funds, has hired Josh Kaplan, formerly director of investments at Drexel University, to oversee its hedge fund allocation.
Michelle Keeley, executive v.p., Minneapolis Equities and Fixed Income, a unit of RiverSource Institutional Advisors, plans to leave the firm when Ameriprise Financial, the parent company of RiverSource Investments, acquires Bank of America’s asset management arm, Columbia Management.
Agecroft Partners, the Richmond, Va.-based third-party hedge fund marketing firm started by industry veteran Don Steinbrugge, has hired a marketer to focus on the Middle East and Asia.
Gina Sanchez, former director of public investments for the $10 billion Ford Foundation, has joined Roubini Global Economics.
Mike Smith, cio of the University of Florida Investment Corporation, is leaving to join Global Endowment Management.
Marketing veteran Rachel Minard has left Cogo Wolf Asset Management.
Gina Sanchez, director, public investments, for the $10 billion Ford Foundation, has left after a brief stint.
Jack Pierce has been tapped as a principal for Robeco Investment Management.
Greg Hartley, co-owner, portfolio manager and research analyst at Kalmar Investments, has left the firm.
Allan Toole, former portfolio manager at TCW and head of Portfolio Analytics Group, has joined DoubleLine Capital as chief risk officer and head of product development.
Russell Kuhns, chairman and founder of R.V. Kuhns & Associates, plans to retire June 30.
Endowment investment committee members, traditionally an all-voluntary corps, should be paid for their service, Chris Bittman, cio of University of Colorado Foundation and head of Perella Weinberg Partners outsourced cio business, told attendees at the National Association of College and University Business Officers’ Endowment Management Forum.
The University of Chicago is searching for a chief risk officer and a managing director of strategy for its roughly $5 billion endowment.
George Yepes, managing director in North American Distribution for fund of hedge funds manager Gottex Fund Management, has left the firm.
Southern Methodist University has hired McCall Merchant as director of investments to help oversee its private investments.
Robeco-Sage, the fund of hedge funds unit of Robeco Group, has tapped Michael Welch from Coast Asset Management to market its funds on the West Coast.
Mihir Meswani, formerly the director of public market managers at the $8 billion Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has joined Sandalwood Securities, the Roseland, N.J.-based $1 billion credit fund of funds, as part of a push to attract institutional clients.
Claire Shaughnessy, managing director of consulting at Rogerscasey, has joined Hewitt Associates in Connecticut as a senior investment consultant.
Robeco Investment Management will hire two institutional sales professionals in the first quarter.
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Rockefeller & Company has hired Russell Reynolds Associates to begin a search for a new ceo, replacing Jim McDonald, who passed away in September.
Carolyn Burke has joined Mesirow Advanced Strategies, the fund of hedge funds subsidiary of Mesirow Financial, as chief financial officer.
David Lucey, managing director at Pyramis Real Estate Group, the real estate arm of Pyramis Global Advisors, has left the firm due to personal reasons.
Invesco is actively looking to double its consultant relations staff to six.
Lyxor Asset Management has hired Michael Bernstein to spearhead marketing funds of hedge funds to U.S.-based institutional investors and consultants.
Lebanese American University has hired David Grosner from Hewitt Associates as its senior investment officer for its roughly $330 million endowment.
Southern Methodist University is searching for a director of investments to help oversee its private investments.
Nikko Asset Management has added to its global team by hiring Michael Herring to run its U.S. operation.
Bryan Schneider, a senior consultant in hedge funds at NEPC, is leaving the firm to take a position in research at EnTrust Capital.
Boston-based Westfield Capital Management Co. has hired Matthew Coll as a v.p. in marketing and client service.
Katrina Howard O’Leary has joined Opus Capital Management in Cincinnati as a manager of business development and client relations.
Andrew Bilzin has joined the $2 billion Tremblant Capital Group as director of marketing, having previously held a similar role at Alson Capital Management.
W.R. Huff Asset Management has hired Michael Del Priore and Gina Strum to help raise assets for a distressed/credit opportunities fund.
Daniel Taylor, senior portfolio manager in fixed income, and Matthew Cobon, head of currency at Aberdeen Asset Management are leaving the firm.
Equity expert MFS Investment Management has appointed two portfolio managers to its core equity team, following the recent departures of Simon Todd and Michael Nickson to Odey Asset Management to run Odey’s new unconstrained global equities long-only fund, the Odey Global Allegra Fund.
Endowments and foundations are increasingly exploring outsourcing the role of chief investment officer.
Angeles Investment Advisors has hired Lisa Murray, previously associate in global equity research at Putnam Investments, as a consultant.
Josh Kaplan, director of investments at Drexel University, has left the Philadelphia school.
Martin Currie has added two new members to its growing hedge fund business.
Children’s Hospital Boston and Sisters of Mercy Health System in Chesterfield, Mo., are searching for chief investment officers for the first time.
Ronald Ernst and Stephen Simpkin have joined Attalus Capital as directors in the client service area.
The Smithsonian Institution endowment is searching for two investment staffers.
Davidson Investment Advisors has hired Steven Pines as director of institutional business development.
Nathan Fischer, cio at the Lumina Foundation For Education, has left after spending seven-and-a-half years at the Indianapolis fund.
Gina Sanchez of the California Endowment will join the $10 billion Ford Foundation in New York on Sept. 1 to oversee the foundation’s allocations to hedge funds and long-only managers.
Convergent Wealth Advisors is bolstering its institutional group after seeing a surge of interest from new clients, particularly non-profits, in the past few months, said Peter Dunne, managing director of the institutional group.
Turner Investment Partners, an independent firm providing investment management and distribution services to institutional clients such as endowments, foundations, and pension funds, has hired John Harrington as the new director of sales for the endowments and foundations group in the distribution team.
Liontrust Asset Management has tapped a quartet from GAM to set up its global equity business.
Mike Hennessy, founding partner at Morgan Creek Capital Management, has come out in defense of the endowment model.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management, which has been seeking a ceo to head up the asset management practice since last year, has decided against hiring one.
Clayton Cheek, executive v.p. and head of U.S. institutional relationship management at Man Investments, left the firm last week.
Larry Siegel, director of research in the investment division of the Ford Foundation, is retiring next month
DuPont Capital Management has hired Marek Michejda, Brendan Naughton, and Timothy Sweeney as principals in the marketing and client service department.
The board of trustees of the $10 billion Illinois State Universities Retirement System will see a makeover July 1, following recently passed Illinois legislation that dismantles the current board.
Jeff Gabrione, head of Americas manager research for Mercer, will move to oversee hedge fund research, following the firm’s restructuring of research into asset class boutiques.
David Dwyer, a managing director within the marketing team at Renaissance Technologies, has left the firm. He has not been replaced.
Susan Lucas has joined Allianz Global Investors Management Partners as head of business development for its three equity subsidiaries.
T.J. Carlson, cio of the Marshfield Clinic, has joined Ennis Knupp + Associates as a principal and senior consultant in the Client Advisory Group in Chicago.
Top dogs at big hedge funds racked up the cash in 2008, according to FEMM sister publication Alpha’s eighth annual ranking of the highest-paid hedge fund managers.