Union Investment’s Christoph Hock is set to step away from his role as head of multi-asset trading later this year to pursue an opportunity in digital assets and tokenisation within the asset management firm, as revealed by The TRADE. His new role is not yet public but will be communicated in due course. Hock originally joined Union in 2014 and has since been instrumental in the development of the firm’s trading strategy and structure. Prior to joining Union, Hock spent three years at Barclays as head of equity execution sales, four years at Tungsten Capital Management as head of portfolio trading and management, and two and a half years at Ferox Capital Management in a similar role.
LCH Group appointed Corentine Poilvet-Clédière as chief executive of the firm’s Paris-based European central counterparty LCH SA. Poilvet-Clédière will assume the role on 1 October, subject to regulatory approvals. She will replace Christophe Hémon, who confirmed he would be stepping down as chief executive of LCH SA on 1 October – when Poilvet-Clédière assumes the role – after nearly two decades in office. Poilvet-Clédière brings over 15 years’ experience in financial markets to the role. She currently serves as head of RepoClear and collateral management at LCH SA. Before that, Poilvet-Clédière was global head of regulatory strategy at LSEG.
Sonal Rashmi has joined equity trading business Instinet in an execution sales role, following seven and a half years at Goldman Sachs. In this new role, she will focus on EMEA clients trading globally – specifically quant clients, The TRADE understands. She was most recently vice president at the investment bank, responsible for the algorithmic trading performances of key clients, as well as undertaking strategic analysis. During her tenure at Goldman Sachs, London-based Rashmi also previously worked as an associate and an analyst. Prior to this, she was a group strategy analyst at HSBC, working across technology strategy, innovation, and blockchain.
Allianz Global Investors appointed Kayvan Vahid as head of equity Europe core and value. Vahid joined AllianzGI from UBS Asset Management where he served in a variety of roles over the last 20 years. Most recently, Vahid served as deputy head of global value equity and head of European mid cap equities, where he held responsibility for managing a range of institutional and retail funds across global, European and UK equity mandates. Prior to that, he served as a portfolio manager for European small and mid-caps as well as a European equities research analyst. As part of the role, Vahid will help strengthen and expand the firm’s capabilities in the fundamentally-managed European core and value space.
Both Barclays and JP Morgan made new appointments within their equities trading and sales teams. Doug Polera was appointed as an equity sales trader at Barclays, joining from Credit Suisse where he spent the last 18 years. While at Credit Suisse, Polera most recently served as director of equity sales trading. Prior to that, he was vice president of international equity trading at the firm.
Elsewhere, Louis Barré was appointed equity derivatives trader at JP Morgan, joining from Barclays where he held the same role. Previously in his career, Barré also served as an equity derivatives trader at Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking (SGCIB) as well as Mosaic Finance. Before joining Mosaic Finance, he served as a front office trading assistant for derivative listed products at SGCIB.