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Jeff Peskind
Founder & Chief Investment Officer
Phoenix Investment Advisors
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| Prior to joining Lyxor in 2010, Robert Picard was Senior Advisor to Navigant Consulting’s Financial Institutions Restructuring Solutions Team (FIRST) and active in advising emerging hedge fund managers. Earlier, he was Chief Investment Officer and Head of Research at Optima Fund Management overseeing 6.5 Billion of hedge fund investments. Prior to joining Optima, Mr. Picard was a Managing Director at The Carlyle Group. At Carlyle, Mr. Picard built and managed the process and portfolio of an innovative hedge fund business that provided an institutional platform for Institutions investing in alternative investments. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Picard was Managing Director at RBC Capital Risk Advisors, working with the Global Equity Derivatives Group of Royal Bank of Canada. The Group actively managed more than US $10 billion of Royal Bank's proprietary assets through arbitrage trading, hedge fund investments and structured private equity investments. Previously Mr. Picard was European Manager, Structured Equity Products for RBC Dominion Securities Inc. From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Picard worked as European Product Manager, Global Equity Derivatives for Kidder, Peabody in Europe and earlier worked for Bank Nomura (Suisse) S.A. trading and selling multicurrency, Japanese and South-East Asian convertible and warrant products. Mr. Picard graduated from College de Geneve and attended the University of Geneva School of Law. Mr. Picard speaks English, French and German. Mr. Picard was recently Chairman of the 2007 GAIM Fund of Funds conference in New York. |
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