GLG的十个原因认为它会胜利

当明星兴起 - 市场经理Greg Coffey在GLG Partners震惊了他的老板时春天，他将在10月底离开他的消息，他们并没有浪费时间Bemoaning他们的损失。相反，他们使用了4500万美元左右的一些赔偿，这些补偿尚未归属于帮助招聘新的投资组合经理，以执行其大胆的扩张计划，以及代替Coffey。以下是2008年聘用的十名高级投资专业人士的快照。

Driss Ben-Brahim, 44, joined GLG last summer to develop a special situations platform. The Moroccan-born Ben-Brahim, who speaks fluent French, English and German in addition to his native Arabic, is also launching a global macro fund and a distressed-debt fund. Previously, he ran the proprietary trading desk at Goldman Sachs International in London. Ben-Brahim and GLG co-CEO Emmanuel Roman go way back: Roman helped hire him in 1994 from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to work in fixed income and structured products at Goldman.

Jamil Baz, 49, was recruited from Pacific Investment Management Co. in London to be chief investment strategist at GLG and work on global asset allocation. The longtime fixed-income expert — who has held senior investment positions at Goldman, Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers and the World Bank — is also helping Ben-Brahim with the global macro fund. Baz, who has a Ph.D. in finance from Harvard University, teaches financial economics at the University of Oxford.

Karim Abdel-Motaal, 38, and Bart Turtelboom, 42, joined GLG in October to replace Coffey as co-managers of the firm’s Emerging Markets Fund, Emerging Currency and Fixed Income Fund and Emerging Equity Fund. The duo previously ran emerging-markets sales and trading at Morgan Stanley in London. Before he moved to Morgan Stanley in 2002, Abdel-Motaal managed an emerging-markets trading book for Tudor Capital UK in Epsom, Surrey. Turtelboom was an emerging-markets portfolio manager at Vega Asset Management in Madrid before joining Morgan Stanley in 2004.

Warren Touwen, 36, arrived at GLG in July from Merrill Lynch & Co. as a portfolio manager to work with Esprit Fund co-managers Peter Harnett and Simon Savage. The Esprit Fund, launched in September 2006, uses an “alpha

capture” system to create a

market-neutral portfolio based on analyst recommendations from about 50 investment banks. Touwen, who developed the first fully automated alpha capture model at Merrill, will also work on expanding GLG’s global alpha capture capabilities.

Galia Velimukhametova, 45, was brought in last summer by GLG as a portfolio manager to work with Steven Roth on the Credit Fund and Market Neutral Fund. A distressed-debt expert, she previously launched the London office of New York–based King Street Capital and was a member of that firm’s European investment committee. Before joining King Street in 2005, Velimukhametova spent nearly seven years at JPMorgan Europe in London, where among other things she did capital structure arbitrage.

Anthony Burton, 37, has been co-managing global technology investments with Philip Pearson since joining GLG in September. Previously, he ran a global long-short equity fund at Merrill, focusing on the technology, media and telecommunications sectors.

Andrew Knott，28岁，也在9月加入了Merrill Lynch的GLG。长期股权研究分析师已被指控创建一个新的全球能源基金，同时还有助于管理整个公司现有资金的能源投资。在Merrill，Knott Ran Ran欧洲石油和天然气勘探和生产股票研究团队。

Daniel Geber, 49, was hired by GLG a year ago as a portfolio manager in its New York office to boost the firm’s small- and midcap investment expertise. Geber, who once worked as an analyst at hedge fund firm Omega Advisors, had been managing a top-ranked international small-cap fund for Epoch Investment Partners, a New York–based, largely long-only firm.

Fabrice Bay, 40, moved to London from Frankfurt last summer when GLG hired him to lead its Consumer Fund team and co-manage the Capital Appreciation Fund alongside Ben Funnel. In his last job at DWS/Deutsche Asset Management, Bay managed €2 billion ($3 billion) in European equities mutual funds, as well as launched 130/30 products for institutional clients.