Roubini Global Economics announced today that it has made major appointments to its market research and strategy team.
Gina Sanchez has joined the firm as a director, equity and asset allocation strategy.
Before coming to Roubini Global Economics as a global equity and asset allocation strategist, Ms. Sanchez spent four years as an institutional asset manager, serving at the California Endowment, a Los Angeles based foundation, as managing director of public investments and at the Ford Foundation, a New York based foundation, as director of public investments. In both roles, she was responsible for making asset allocation and manager selection recommendations for all external public managers, including both total return and absolute return strategies. In addition, she was a portfolio manager and strategist for eight years at American Century Investment Management in Mountain View, CA.
Natalia Gurushina has joined as director, emerging markets strategy.
Prior to joining Roubini Global Economics, Ms. Gurushina worked for Pantera Capital Management, a global macro hedge fund, where she developed investment strategies for both emerging and developed European markets. Prior to that, she was in charge of macroeconomic research for select economies in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Russia at Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust. Before joining the private sector, she analyzed economic and political developments in Russia and the former Soviet Union for the Open Society Institute in Prague.
Arun Motianey has been hired as director, fixed income strategy.
These three senior strategists are based in the United States.
Mr. Motianey joins Roubini Global Economics after twenty years at Citi. His last position was in that firm’s global wealth management division where he was managing director and head of macro research and strategy and a voting member of its global investment committee as well as its asset-liability committee. His career at Citi covered the full range of staff and business-line research positions, including several years in the emerging markets business.
Jennifer Kapila has joined as financial institutions analyst, based in London, in the United Kingdom.
Ms. Kapila comes to RGE after several years as a European banks analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort in London.
All will work closely with Arnab Das, managing director of market research and strategy based in London and New York. -PRNewswire
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