Asset-Allokation
Fund Manager: Julian Howard
Expertise: Macroeconomics and asset allocation
About: Julian is Head of Multi Asset Solutions at GAM. Before joining GAM in March 2007, he worked in a range of investment communications roles at Henderson Global Investors, Insight Investment, Invesco Perpetual and JP Morgan Investment Management.
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Fund Manager: Charles Hepworth
Expertise: Asset Allocation
About: Charles is responsible for developing and managing outsourcing solutions for UK independent financial advisers within GAM’s discretionary fund management service. Prior to joining GAM he was a group director at Quilter.
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Fund Manager: James McDaid
Expertise: Asset allocation
About: James is responsible for developing and managing outsourcing solutions for UK independent financial advisors within GAM’s discretionary fund management service. Prior to joining GAM he was an investment manager at Quilter.
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Fund Manager: Niall Gallagher
Expertise: European equities
About: Niall is manager of GAM’s European equity strategies. Prior to joining GAM in 2009, Niall managed European equities at BlackRock and T Rowe Price. He began his career as an economist at the Bank of England.
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Fund Manager: Mark Hawtin
Expertise: Technology
About: Mark has over 20 years of investment experience and manages GAM’s long-only and long/short technology strategies. He regularly comments on the technology sector. Prior to GAM, Mark worked for Marshall Wace, where he ran one of Europe’s largest technology hedge funds.
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Fund Manager: Tim Love
Expertise: Emerging market equities
About: Tim Love is responsible for GAM’s emerging market equity strategies. Prior to joining GAM, he was a senior portfolio manager at CQS where he managed long/short emerging markets equities.
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Fund Manager: Mike Biggs
Expertise: Emerging Market fixed income and currency
About: Michael Biggs is a Macro Strategist and Investment Manager, responsible for emerging market bond and currency long only and absolute return strategies. Biggs joined GAM in September 2013 from Deutsche Bank where latterly he was a global economist and equity strategist.
Fund Manager: Paul McNamara
Expertise: Emerging market fixed income
About: Paul has over 12 years of industry experience and is the lead manager of the local emerging bond strategy.
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Fund Manager: Alex McKnight
Expertise: Unconstrained/absolute return bonds
About: Alex McKnight is (lead) investment director of the global strategic bond franchise at GAM Investments. Alex was previously co-manager of GAM’s unconstrained/absolute return bond strategy, where he has specialised in convertible bond strategies, in addition to managing overlay credit and equity-linked strategies.
Fund Manager: Denise Prime
Expertise: Emerging market fixed income
About: Denise Prime co-manages the emerging market bond, currency long-only and hedge fund strategies. Prior to joining GAM in April 2010, she worked as a portfolio manager at both Rogge Global Partners and Henderson Global Investors, focusing on emerging market debt.
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Fund Manager: Jeremy Smouha
Expertise: Corporate bonds and private clients
About: Jeremy is CEO of the London branch of Atlanticomnium, which manages multiple GAM bond funds. He was previously a director at GAM co-managing a range of GAM funds based on Managed Portfolios investment strategies. Jeremy was a founding member of GAM, joining in 1983. Prior to that, he was a fund manager of Asian equities at Arbuthnot Latham.
ALTERNATIVE ANLAGEN
Fund Manager: Kier Boley
Expertise: Equity–focused hedge funds, including emerging markets
About: Kier has responsibility as head of GAM’s fund research team covering traditional assets such as equities and fixed income through to absolute fund strategies such as hedge funds and across all asset classes.
SYSTEMATIC
Fund Manager: Ewan Kirk
Expertise: Systematic investing
About: Ewan is Chief Investment Officer of GAM Systematic’s Cantab team. He co-founded Cantab Capital Partners in 2006, which became part of GAM Systematic in October 2016.
Fund Manager: Anthony Lawler
Expertise: Systematic investing
About: Anthony is Co-Head of GAM Systematic. He joined GAM in 2011 from Man Group where he was head of portfolio management. He has also worked for Prudential Securities and Merrill Lynch.
Fund Manager: Dr Tom Howat
Expertise: Systematic investing
About: Tom is Chief Technology Officer of GAM Systematic’s Cantab team. He heads up the team of scientists responsible for Cantab’s ongoing infrastructure development. Prior to joining Cantab, Tom Howat spent seven years at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained degrees in Mathematics and a PhD in Mathematical Biology.
Asset-Allokation
Chief Economist: Larry Hatheway
Expertise: Macroeconomics and asset allocation
About: Larry is Group Head of GAM Investment Solutions and Group Chief Economist. He plays a key role in asset allocation in the Multi-Asset Class Solutions business. Prior to joining GAM he was chief economist at UBS Investment Bank.
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Fund Manager: Joachim (Joe) Corbach
Expertise: Currencies
About: Joe heads a currencies & commodities team at GAM in Zurich. He has 22 years of trading and investment experience in the area of currencies and fixed income. He is fluent in English, German and French.
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Fund Manager: Christophe Eggmann
Expertise: Healthcare equities
About: Christophe manages a fund that invests in innovation-driven companies in healthcare industries. He has 20 years investment experience, of which 18 are in the global healthcare sector. He is fluent in English, German and French.
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Fund Manager: Ernst Glanzmann
Expertise: Japanese equities
About: Ernst manages Japanese equity funds. He has more than 25 years of investment experience in the area and is fluent in English and German.
Fund Manager: Daniel Häuselmann
Expertise: Swiss equities
About: Daniel is head of Swiss equities. He has 22 years of investment experience and is fluent in English and German.
Fund Manager: Gianmarco Mondani
Expertise: EU Equities
About: Gianmarco is the Chief Investment Officer of the non-directional equity team, and co-manages developed Europe long and long/short equity funds. In addition to his role as CIO, Gianmarco is the CEO as well as a founding partner of GAM Investment Management Lugano SA (formerly Arkos Capital SA). Prior to establishing Arkos in January 2007, Gianmarco launched and co-managed the current Talentum and GAM Star (Lux) (formerly World Invest) offering at Banca Arner in Lugano. Gianmarco is fluent in English and Italian.
ANLEIHEN
Fund Manager: Gregoire Mivelaz
Expertise: Corporate bonds
About: Gregoire is a fund manager at Atlanticomnium and co-responsible for multiple GAM bond funds. He is fluent in English, French and German.
Fund Manager: Anthony Smouha
Expertise: Corporate bonds
About: Anthony is CEO of Atlanticomnium in Geneva, which manages multiple GAM bond funds. He also manages private client accounts. Anthony is fluent in English and French.
ALTERNATIVE ANLAGEN
Fund Manager: Roberto Bottoli
Expertise: Merger arbitrage
About: Roberto Bottoli is a Fund Manager in the non-directional equity team responsible for the management of GAM Star (Lux) Merger Arbitrage. Prior to joining GAM in July 2016, he spent 17 years at Allianz Global Investors, first in Milan, then in Frankfurt. During his time at Allianz, Roberto Bottoli was responsible for absolute return and multi asset portfolios.
SYSTEMATIC
Fund Manager: Dr Lars Jaeger
Expertise: Systematic investing
About: Lars is Head of Alternative Risk Premia within GAM Systematic, primarily responsible for risk premia research and portfolio construction. Before joining GAM in November 2014, Lars Jaeger was the founding partner and Chief Executive Officer of Alternative Beta Partners AG.
Asset-Allokation
Fund Manager: Antonio Anniballe
Expertise: Multi asset class solutions / asset allocation
About: Antonio Anniballe has been with GAM since 2005. He is member of the Multi Asset Class Solution team in Milan and co-manager of institutional segregated accounts and investment funds. Antonio is fluent in English and Italian.
Fund Manager: Massimo De Palma
Expertise: Multi asset class solutions / asset allocation
About: Massimo De Palma is head of the multi asset class solution (MACS) team in Milan. He is responsible for the management of multi asset funds and institutional mandates. Prior to joining GAM Investments in April 2008, he led teams at Paribas Gestion Privée, BNP Paribas Private Banking, Julius Baer Creval Private Bank and Deutsche Bank. His responsibilities included defining strategies for portfolio models, asset allocation, selecting and monitoring funds as well as constructing tailor-made mandates for high net worth individuals. He began his career in 1990 as a financial analyst at Pastorino stockbroker and then as a currency trader at Intereuropa SIM. Massimo De Palma holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Parma. He is based in Milan.
Fund Manager: Paolo Mauri Brusa
Expertise: Multi asset class solutions / asset allocation
About: Paolo has been with GAM since 2008. He is member of the Multi Asset Class Solution team in Milan and co-manager of institutional segregated accounts and investment funds. Paolo has over 16 years of industry experience and prior to joining GAM he was portfolio manager at Deutsche Bank. Paolo is fluent in English and Italian.
ANLEIHEN
Fund Manager: Jack Flaherty
Expertise: Unconstrained/absolute return bonds
About: Jack Flaherty is an investment director responsible for the co-management of GAM’s leading multi-billion unconstrained/absolute return bond strategy. Prior to joining GAM in November 2008, Jack was a director at BNP Paribas. He was previously global co-head of credit fixed income and global head of emerging markets at UBS.
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Fund Manager: Tom Mansley
Expertise: US mortgage backed securities, mortgage sector specialist
About: Tom Mansley is an Investment Director specialising in the analysis and management of mortgage and asset backed securities (MBS and ABS). He joined GAM in June 2014 from specialist MBS and ABS manager Singleterry Mansley Asset Management.
Fund Manager: Gary Singleterry
Expertise: US mortgage backed securities, mortgage sector specialist
About: Gary Singleterry is an Investment Director specialising in the analysis and management of mortgage and asset backed securities (MBS and ABS). He joined GAM in June 2014 from specialist ABS and MBS manager Singleterry Mansley Asset Management, which he co-founded in 2008 and at which he was CEO and co-CIO.
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