{"id":5070,"date":"2006-09-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"horizon-enhances-business-development-and-portfolio-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2006\/horizon-enhances-business-development-and-portfolio-management.html","title":{"rendered":"Horizon Enhances Business Development And Portfolio Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeCo.net ( New York )&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; Horizon Cash Management LLC, a leading<br \/>cash manager for alternative investment funds, today announced that they<br \/>have hired a new executive and promoted another as the firm ramps up its<br \/>business development and portfolio management in conjunction with strong<br \/>asset growth in 2006.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Robert von Halle, 49, has joined as Senior Vice President, Business<br \/>Development.&nbsp; In this newly created position, he is responsible for<br \/>developing new strategies and products and reports to Pauline Modjeski,<br \/>Executive Vice President and Managing Partner of the firm.&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The firm also announced that Jill King was promoted to Vice President<br \/>and Senior Portfolio Manager and is now responsible for managing the<br \/>portfolio group.&nbsp; She has 18 years of experience in all sectors of fixed<br \/>income and joined Horizon in 2005 as a Portfolio Manager.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&#8220;We are excited about Robert&#8217;s addition to the team and<br \/>congratulate Jill on her promotion.&#8221; said Diane Mix, President and<br \/>Executive Partner of the firm. &#8220;We welcome the professional changes at<br \/>Horizon as we continue to expand and look ahead to further growth in<br \/>2007.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. von Halle brings 23 years of experience in the fixed income<br \/>industry to Horizon.&nbsp; Most recently, he was at MarketAxess, an<br \/>internet-based fixed income credit trading and data services platform,<br \/>as Midwest Territory Manager.&nbsp; Prior to that, he was Vice President,<br \/>Fixed Income Currency and Commodities at Goldman Sachs in Chicago.&nbsp; Mr.<br \/>von Halle has also worked in the fixed income sale departments at Bear<br \/>Stearns and Salomon Brothers in Chicago.&nbsp;&nbsp; He received a Bachelor of<br \/>Arts in Economics and Management Science from Duke University and<br \/>Masters of Business Administration in Finance from Kellogg Graduate<br \/>School of Management, Northwestern University.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 1991, Chicago-based Horizon Cash Management LLC<br \/>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.horizoncash.com\/\">www.horizoncash.com<\/a>) provides customized portfolio and treasury<br \/>services to hedge funds, funds-of-funds, futures funds and family<br \/>offices worldwide.&nbsp; With more than $3.5 billion in assets under<br \/>management, Horizon seeks to maximize cash balance returns for<br \/>alternative fund investors and managers, within the liquidity needs and<br \/>risk tolerances of each client.&nbsp; Horizon is a registered investment<br \/>adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sophie Sophaon l Walek &amp; Associates l Office: 212.590.0522 l Cell:<br \/>202.270.4870 l <a href=\"mailto:ssophaon@walek.com\">ssophaon@walek.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeCo.net ( New York )&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; Horizon Cash Management LLC, a leadingcash manager for alternative investment funds, today announced that theyhave hired a new executive and promoted another as the firm ramps up itsbusiness development and portfolio management in conjunction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}