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Investors - Emerging Manager Showcase A
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Anton Honikman
Ada Investments
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| Anton Honikman is Managing Director of Ada Investments. He is responsible for the general management of the U.S. business. This encompasses strategy, marketing, business development and product development. Prior to Ada, Mr. Honikman was Head of Barclays Global Investors’ (BGI)New Ventures Group. This encompassed both a corporate venture capital fund and the incubation of strategic initiatives. Before that, Mr. Honikman was a Senior Investment Strategist in BGI's Structured Solutions Group, with primary responsibility for designing and promoting defined contribution and retirement income products. This included the successful distribution of the LifePath series of lifecycle funds with institutional investors in the wake of the passing of the Pension Protection Act (2006). Mr. Honikman joined BGI in 2005 as a Senior Investment Strategist in the Index Equity group, with a focus on international index products. He joined BGI from Barra (now MSCI), where he spent ten years in a variety of product management and business strategy roles. Most recently, as Vice President of Product Strategy, Mr. Honikman was responsible for the conception and commercialization of BarraOne, Barra’s flagship web-based multi-asset class portfolio analytics platform. Mr. Honikman earned a Bachelor of Business Science with honors in financial economics and applied statistics from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. |
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Peter Lupoff
Tiburon Capital Management
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| Peter M. Lupoff is the founder, CEO and Portfolio Manager of Tiburon Capital Management, and advisor offering an onshore and offshore fund and managed accounts to accredited investors. The strategy employs Mr. Lupoff’s Five Pronged Methodology and seeks absolute returns from liquid event-oriented credit strategies. Mr. Lupoff formerly was a Managing Director at Millennium Management, the New York-based multi-strategy hedge fund, where he managed a portfolio of investments in distressed and special situations. Previously he was Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager of the Robeco WPG Distressed Special Situations Fund. In the late 1980s, Mr. Lupoff became one of the first traders of bank loans, and in the mid-1990s, he conceived of "bankruptcy and default-triggered puts" for suppliers to troubled companies. His experience in distressed investing began in 1990 working with Marty Whitman of Third Avenue Funds. Since then, funds managed or co-managed by Mr. Lupoff have received GAIM's Top Performing Emerging Distressed Manager, MARHedge's Event-Driven Manager and an Institutional Investor nomination as Hedge Fund House of the Year. |
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John Saliba
Saliba Portfolio Management
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| John Saliba is Chief Executive Officer and Director of Trading Operations for Saliba Portfolio Management (SPM), a Chicago-based fund company that specializes in an equity options collar strategy. He also serves on the Board of SalibaCo, LLC, the manager of SPM. Mr. Saliba has over 20 years experience in the derivatives industry. He began his career in 1985 trading options as an independent market maker on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). He also traded on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade for many years. In 1995, Mr. Saliba co-founded Saliba Partners, which is a Designated Primary Market Maker (DPM) on the CBOE. In 2001, Saliba Partners sold its DPM operation and Mr. Saliba went on to found and manage an off-floor trading operation in stocks, options and futures. |
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Janu Subramanian
Jai Guru Capital Management Inc.
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| Janu Subramanian is founder of Jai Guru Capital Management Inc., a financial services firm offering asset management services to institutions and high net worth individuals. He is currently the portfolio manager for their flagship global market neutral fund which aims to produce low double digit returns with very low volatility by trading the most liquid stocks from around the world. Previously he was the manager of the Quant team at Integral Development Corporation producing pricing models and risk management models to banks for their exotic interest rate and FX derivative products. Mr. Subramanian holds a doctorate in Operation Research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a bachelor in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at New Delhi. |
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