Deuterium Capital Management acquires Jupiter Asset Management’s Global Dynamic Allocation team
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24/12/2020 - 9:44am
Deuterium Capital Management, a US based asset manager with circa USD1 billion AUM, has acquired Jupiter Asset Management’s Global Dynamic Allocation team for an undisclosed sum.
The acquisition includes the entire Global Dynamic Allocation team, along with the associated intellectual property, including software and analytics. Deuterium will launch a new fund in January 2021, which will be aligned with the existing investment strategy.
Lead fund manager and head of global asset allocation, John Ricciardi, and portfolio manager, Dan Matthews, will join Deuterium and have more than four decades experience delivering outperformance in dynamic allocation investing. They will be joined by Osman Oszan, fund manager and Chief Investment Officer at Deuterium Capital Management. Head quant analyst, Ravi Kishore Booka, data scientist, Pramila Prasingu and qu
nen, Mursula will succeed
Sini Kivihuhta. She is due to leave Ilmarinen in February 2021, as the company announced back in June, having worked at the Helsinki-based firm since 1983.
VBL –
Michael Leinwand will take up his position as chief investment officer at Germany’s
Versorgungsanstalt des Bundes und der Länder (VBL) with effect from 1 January rather than 1 April following a decision by the finance ministry, the organisation announced this week.
VBL is Germany’s €24bn supplementary pension provider for public sector employees. Leinwand was most recently at
Zurich Group and before that at Gothaer Asset Management AG and GenRe Capital in Cologne.