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Unigestion expands cross asset solutions team with two manager hires

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia:

Boutique asset manager Unigestion has hired two investment managers for its cross asset solutions team, joining from Bridgewater Associates and EQ Investors.

A press release from the $24.9bn boutique asset manager said that Salman Baig joined the firm in March from Bridgewater Associates where he was an investment associate and engineer.

Prior to Bridgewater, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the mathematics department at the University of Washington and a member of the Research Team at the Institute for Defense Analyses in the US. Salman holds Bachelors in Mathematics and a Masters in Finance from Princeton University and a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Texas.

Based in Geneva, he is working across all of Unigestion's cross-asset portfolios, with a primary focus on its flagship Cross-Asset Navigator strategy.

Joshua Seager joins the firm from EQ Investors where he was focused on asset allocation and quantitative analysis, having begun his career in 2012 at Threadneedle Investments.

Joshua holds Bachelors in Mathematics from the University of Edinburgh. Based in London, he works across all Unigestion's cross-asset offering, with a primary focus on its Alternative Risk Premia strategy.

The release quoted Jerome Teiletche, Head of Cross Asset Solutions as saying: "As we move further away from a global economy fueled by quantitative easing, genuinely diversified and actively risk managed cross-asset investmen......................

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