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<\/a>\u201cThe hedge fund industry has become increasingly global in scope. As such, it makes sense for the HFA to expand so that we can advocate on behalf of the international alternatives industry,\u201d said David Friedland, President of the Hedge Fund Association and President of Magnum U.S. Investments.<\/p>\nVictor Hugo Rodriguez, CEO of LatAm Alternatives was appointed by the HFA\u2019s board to serve as the Director of the Latin American Regional Chapter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am honored to take an active role in the HFA\u2019s international growth and its advocacy efforts on behalf of the industry.\u201d Rodriguez said, \u201cI hope that the Latin American HFA can serve as a catalyst for the expansion of our industry in this key economic region.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcia Rothschild, Head of BNP Paribas Securities Services Brazil and Otavio Vieira, Managing Director \/ Chief Investment Officer of Safdi\u00e9 Gest\u00e3o de Patrim\u00f4nio (a wholly subsidiary of Banque Safdi\u00e9), will serve as Co-directors of the Brazilian Chapter.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Juan Luis Rivera, Partner at Moneda Asset Management will be appointed as Director of the Chilean Chapter and Daniel Osorio, CEO of Andean Capital Management will take the reins as Director of the Colombian Chapter.<\/p>\n
Over the last several years, the HFA has been aggressively expanding its footprint to include 4 regional U.S. Chapters, Cayman Islands and EU Chapters and an Asian affiliate organization. The HFA has also lobbied on behalf of small and medium sized hedge funds to increase the Dodd-Frank AUM registration threshold from the originally proposed $30 million to the current $150 million.<\/p>\n
Already holding more U.S. events than any other hedge fund industry association, The HFA will launch the Latin American Chapter this summer at an event on Brickell Avenue in Miami.<\/p>\n
Editing by Alex Akesson New York (HedgeCo.net) – The Hedge Fund Association (HFA), announced its expansion into Latin America along with the appointment of five Directors for the new Latin American Chapters. \u201cThe hedge fund industry has become increasingly global in scope. As such, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16005,3,16020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developing-stories","category-hedgeco-news","category-people-moves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21613,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21610\/revisions\/21613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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