People on the Move: July 19-23

Buyside

Michael Swell, Head of Global Fixed Income Portfolio Management of Goldman Sachs Asset Management is retiring at the end of the year. He joined the firm in 2007 and became partner in 2012.

Adams Street Partners named Jennifer Brown as Partner and Global Head of Consultant Relations. Prior to this, she was managing director of the global business development group at Barings.

Paul Liu joined BNY Mellon Investment Management as Head of Intermediary for Southeast Asia. Before joining BNY Mellon, Liu served as sales director at Guotai Junan International Asset Management Singapore.

Markus Scheufler joined Millennium Management’s equity long/short real estate investing team. Before that, he spent 11 years at Deutsche Bank in London most recently as head of European financials research.

SkyBridgeCapital names Brett Messing as Co-CIO. He will continue his responsibilities as the firm’s president and chief operating officer.

Andrea Anastasio joined MassMutual as Head of Investment Management Solutions. She will lead the investment product team and will also work with MassMutual’s distribution and marketing teams. Before MassMutual, Anastasio was head of investment strategy and research North America at SSGA.

SLC Management named Anna Murray as Managing Director and Global Head of ESG. In this role, she will be responsible for aligning the firm’s ESG reporting and sustainability efforts with SLC Management’s parent company, Sun Life Financial. Murray is currently the head of sustainable investing team at SLC’s real estate money manager BentallGreenOak.

Tariq Ahmad was named Head of Asia Distribution at Franklin Templeton. Ahmad previously served as director, head of Asia and CEO of Franklin Templeton affiliate Brandywine Global Investment Management.

Carlos Carranza has taken on the role of Senior Investment Strategist for emerging markets at Allianz Global Investors. Carranza previously led J.P. Morgan Chase Bank’s Latin America foreign exchange and local rates strategy team in the emerging markets research group.

PGIM appointed William Tsotsos as Managing Director for Canada. Tsotsos was previously head of institutional, Franklin Templeton Canada.

Cecile Cabanis was named Deputy CEO at Tikehau Capital. In this role, she will oversee he human capital, ESG, communications and marketing functions of the firm. Prior to this, Cabanis was executive vice president at Danone Group.

Jennison Associates appointed Guillaume Mascotto as Managing Director, Head of Environmental, Social and Governance Strategy. Mascotto was previously vice president, head of ESG and investment stewardship for American Century Investments.

Private Banking / Wealth Management

Credit Suisse named Stella Lau as private banking Market Leader for Greater China Singapore. She re-joined the firm from J.P. Morgan where she served as China market head. Meanwhile, Nicole Dunn joined Credit Suisse Private Bank in Australia. Dunn most recently worked for NAB where she was last its director of investor sales.

Insurance

Swiss Re appointed Anna Lee as Head of Client Markets, Hong Kong and Taiwan, effective September 1. Lee is presently Swiss Re’s head of new business development for property and casualty (P&C) reinsurance SID.

Sylvie Gleises will take on the role of Country Manager, Singapore at AXA XL Insurance, effective September 1. Gleises is currently global head of revenue synergies and head of client management for APAC & Europe.

Zurich Malaysia named Junior Cho as Country Head for Malaysia. He will oversee the firm’s four businesses in Malaysia namely life insurance, general insurance, family takaful and general takaful. Cho will continue as Zurich General Insurance Malaysia Berhad’s CEO, a position he assumed since July 2019.

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