Griff Williams Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, GB

Edinburgh, GB

Itau Asset Management is Latin America’s largest, privately owned asset manager, responsible for assets of USD170bn invested exclusively in Latin American assets across fixed income, alternatives, structured products and equities.

Boston, MA, US

• Identified strategic asset class gaps and appraised funds management capabilities from the perspective of the global Institutional market. This led to the development and commercialisation of diversified multi-asset.
• Led an initiative to design a new generation Defined Contribution solution (based on DB principles) for default members of institutional DC schemes. This Solution achieved commercial buy-in in UK/Ireland, Sweden and.
• Developed tailored investment strategies for application with Institutional investors.

City Of London, London, GB

• Managed the Global equity fund (a pooled “manager of managers” fund) and selected managers for the UK/regional equities, hedge funds, bonds and currency funds.
• Monitored incumbent managers within the Railpen pooled fund range.
• Negotiatiated Investment Management Agreements for new mandates and monitored to ensure adherence to existing agreements.
• Reported on performance attribution of individual managers and of collective pooled fund performance.
• Developed and enhanced the Railpen manager research process
• Participated in benchmark construction, asset allocation and new asset class analysis.

• Designed and implemented the fund manager research process..
• Once implemented, managed the research process, including allocation of duties across the investment team.
• Set client investment objectives, advised on investment structure and made recommendations to clients on optimal investment exposure. Managed fund manager beauty parades for Trustees.
• Maintained provider relationships with Gissings suppliers and internal relationships with multi-product provider teams.
• Developed new products including the development of a defined contribution product utilising the proprietary research platform.

Worldwide, OO

• Private equity advisory – provided advice and recommendations to private equity Funds on specific transactions and strategy.
• Project managed transactions including liaison with third parties (legal etc).
• Managed capital raisings, IPOs and mergers and acquisitions.
• Managed corporate advisory and valuation assignments for private and public companies.

Cfa, Chartered Financial Analyst Cfa

Bachelor Of Commerce And Administration, Business Administration And Political Science

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