Stenham Asset Management has announced that Pablo Balan has been hired as the head of risk management and quantitative research. He is a member of the firm’s Investment Advisory Committee and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of risk across the full range of Stenham’s funds and portfolios. Balan's assessment of risk encompasses the fundamental and quantitative inputs to the Stenham investment process. He is also responsible for generating quantitative research on underlying funds and portfolio analytics to assist the fund selection, monitoring and portfolio construction processes. Balan will be based in London.
"Stenham has impressive risk management systems and processes which I am looking forward to further developing. I will also be looking into how quantitative research can be more deeply embedded into our investment process," Balan said.
He has 17 years of investment experience and spent 8 years at Coutts & Co where, as global head of Portfolio Risk and Quantitative Analysis, he was responsible for investment risk management, portfolio construction and quantitative systems development. He has also worked for Citigroup Private Bank in London and the US in various roles. Earlier in his career he held investment roles at two single manager hedge funds.
Jeremy Alun-Jones, group managing director, said, "We are delighted to welcome Pablo to Stenham who brings with him a wealth of institutional level risk management experience. At Stenham we have a very conservative approach to managing clients’ investments with risk management being at the heart of our investment philosophy. Our investment process has evolved over the last 20 years to be as much about managing risk as delivering returns. We have a qualitatively driven approach with significant input to our investment decisions from operational and quantitative research which ensures there is a robust challenge to our qualitative view."
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