Thursday, 8th January 2009

 

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.

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Mayfair goes Modern

Sebastian + Barquet, a three-year old design gallery based in New York and Chelsea, is opening a new gallery showing museum quality pieces in Mayfair next month, the first in London to focus on international modernism from the 1940s to the 1960s. Its opening exhibition is dedicated to American modernist design and is curated by celebrated architect Eric Parry.

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UK millionaire to auction Tiny Dancer - £12m estimate

A bronze version of impressionist artist Edgar Degas' most famous sculpture is being sold by one of the UK's wealthiest men, expected to reach a high estimate of £12m ($17.6m) next month.

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