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| OCTOBER 26, 2011, THE METROPOLITAN CLUB, NYC |
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Emerging Manager Showcase D: New Twists at Older Firms
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Jeff Peskind
Founder and Chief Investment Officer
Phoenix Investment Adviser
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Jeff Peskind is CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Phoenix Investment Adviser, which he founded in 2003. Phoenix is based in New York and has more than $300 million in assets under management. The JLP Institutional Credit Fund, launched in January, 2011, manages $3.8 million in assets and compliments the firm’s flagship JLP Credit Opportunity Fund.
From 1999 until 2003, Mr. Peskind helped found and managed the White Ridge Asset Management firm, which managed over $500 million in high yield and distressed assets. Mr. Peskind previously worked at Banc of America Securities LLC, staring in 1996 as a salesman in the high yield group. He subsequently became co-head of global special situations in 1997 and traded distressed public securities. Prior to that, he was high yield sales manager at Paine Webber from 1994 to 1996 and a high yield salesman at Morgan Stanley from 1987 to 1994. He began his career at Harvard Management, where he was an equity analyst and also a fixed income analyst.
Mr. Peskind earned his B.A. in Finance from the University of Illinois an 1983 and an MBA in Finance from the University of Wisconsin in 1985. |
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Gautam A. Prakash
Managing Director
Monsoon Capital
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| Gautam Prakash is Founder and Senior Managing Director of Monsoon Capital, which has $400 million in assets under management across investment strategies focused on India and Asia. Monsoon has offices in Mumbai, Singapore, and Washington, D.C., and a team of over 25 people. Its newest fund, the Monsoon Asia-Pacific Systematic Fund, launched in November, 2010, and trades liquid equity index futures across eight countries using a systematic trading strategy.
Prior to founding Monsoon Capital in 2004, Mr. Prakash was an advisor to ChrysCapital, a multi billion-dollar private equity fund based in New Delhi. From 1993-2001, he was a venture capitalist and partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. Before that, he worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company in New York from 1991-1993. Mr. Prakash graduated summa cum laude in 1991 from Yale University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. |
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Karl Richter
Senior Portfolio Manager
AlphaOne Capital Partners
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| Karl Richter serves as Senior Portfolio Manager for AlphaOne Capital Partners, a specialty equity asset manager founded in late 2008 and headquartered in suburban Philadelphia. The firm has more than $330 million under management. AlphaOne currently offers two fundamental equity long/short strategies, including the AlphaOne Essentials Global Fund, LP, a long/short equity market-neutral strategy launched in July, 2010 and managed by Mr. Richter that focuses on various global investment themes. Prior to joining AlphaOne in 2009, Mr. Richter had worked at Susquehanna International Group from 2005 to 2008, where he was portfolio manager of a fundamental long/short investment strategy focused on the global technology and energy sectors. He managed a team of five research analysts. Prior to that, Mr. Richter was a senior analyst specializing in large-cap U.S. technology stocks at SAC Capital from 2004 to 2005. From 2001 to early 2004, he was a buy-side research analyst at Susquehanna. From 1999 to 2001, he was an equity research analyst at Lehman Brothers and Robertson Stephens. Mr. Richter earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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Bjorn Tuypens
Chief Investment Officer
Platinum Grove Asset Management
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| Bjorn Tuypens is Co-Managing Principal and Chief Investment Officer of Platinum Grove Asset Management, L.P., and is the Chairman of the Capital Allocation Committee. Platinum Grove primarily invests in sovereign bonds and related interest rate instruments seeking to exploit the relative value opportunities created by supply-demand imbalances in G10 countries. Platinum Grove was founded in 1999 by Myron Scholes and Chi-Fu Huang. In May 2009, senior members of the firm acquired a majority stake in the business from its founding principals.
Dr. Tuypens assumed the role of Platinum Grove CIO in May, 2009. Prior to this, he was the Head of European Fixed Income Trading and Research from September 2006 and in charge of the UK and Scandinavian Fixed Income markets since October 2005. He is the architect of Platinum Grove's inflation models and he has contributed extensively to the development of its current swap and bond trading tools and analytics. Dr. Tuypens was born in Belgium, holds an M.A. in Economics from Université Catholique de Louvain and graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. At Yale, he wrote a dissertation on the predictability of the equity market under the supervision of Professors Robert Shiller and Peter Phillips. In addition, he has a number of peer reviewed publications on the econometrics of option pricing models and the leading indicators of the equity market. |
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