GLG Partners taps Merrill portfolio manager for London office
GLG Partners has declared that Warren Touwen is to join its London office as a portfolio manager next month, according to a Business Wire report.
Warren will work alongside Simon Savage and Peter Harnett, portfolio managers of the GLG Esprit Fund. He will also work on the expansion of GLG's global alpha capture capabilities.
Warren joins GLG from Merrill Lynch where he was a portfolio manager and director of the global strategic risk group. In this role, Warren was responsible for creating, implementing and running multiple market neutral portfolios in Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and Japan.
Warren also designed and implemented Merrill’s first fully automated alpha capture model. Prior to spending close to five years at Merrill Lynch, Warren worked in London in Equity Finance Sales at Nomura International and at Sungard (Real Time Financial Management), as a Sales Manager in Financial Trading Systems.
