Bureau of Asset Management, New York City
The ongoing tremors in financial services have made top money management talent more willing and available to work in the public pension fund sector. Consider Neil Messing, who after graduating from the University of Arizona with a finance degree moved to Chicago to take a job as a financial analyst with IBM Corp.s pension fund. In 2001 he landed a job as an analyst with fund-of-hedge-funds firm Glenwood Capital Investments. Five years later he left to work for the New Jersey hedge fund office of Swiss asset management company Unigestion as deputy to Sandra DItalia, a former managing director at Goldman, Sachs & Co. When Unigestion decided at the end of 2009 to conduct hedge fund research exclusively from Europe, Messing, now 39, was snapped up by the Bureau of Asset Management in New York to help oversee the $125 billion city pension systems new hedge fund allocation.
Hedge Fund Rising Stars | ||||||
NAME | FIRM | |||||
Rick Gerson | Falcon Edge Capital | |||||
David Ben-Ur | Caxton Alternative Management LP | |||||
Atwood 'Porter' Collins | Seawolf Capital | |||||
Javier Dyer | Permal Group | |||||
Adam Fisher | Commonwealth Opportunity Capital | |||||
Grace Gu | BlackRock | |||||
Jason Karp | Carlson Capital | |||||
Akiva Katz | Bow Street | |||||
Laurie Katz | GoldenTree Asset Management | |||||
Ingrid Kiefer | Canyon Partners | |||||
Simon Krinsky | Hall Capital Partners | |||||
Carrie Lo | California State Teachers Employees Retirement System | |||||
Drew McKnight | Fortress Investment Group | |||||
Marina Mekhlis | Rocaton Investment Advisors | |||||
Gideon Nieuwoudt | Silver Creek Capital Management | |||||
Ricky Nardis | UBS Alternative Investment Solutions | |||||
Vinay Nair | Ada Investments | |||||
Sean Murphy | Game Creek Capital | |||||
Kimberly Mounts | MAP Alternative Asset Management Company | |||||
Tony Waskiewicz | Sisters of Mercy Health Systems | |||||
Andrew Tsai | Chalkstream Capital Group | |||||
David Solomon | Goldman, Sachs & Co. | |||||
Howard Shainker | Bow Street | |||||
Danny Sachnowitz | Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust | |||||
Justin Press | BTIG | |||||
Dean Curnutt | Macro Risk Advisors | |||||
James Grossman | Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System | |||||
Chris Paolino | Hartford Investment Management | |||||
Mick McGuire | Marcato Capital Management |