{"id":8486,"date":"2008-08-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"premier-hires-ex-thames-river-man-wright-for-branigan-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2008\/premier-hires-ex-thames-river-man-wright-for-branigan-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Premier hires ex-Thames River man Wright for Branigan fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CityWire &#8211; Premier Asset Management has hired&nbsp;former Thames River hedge fund specialist Chris Wright to take&nbsp;control of&nbsp;the Premier Dividend Fund&nbsp;from Paul Branigan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Branigan, who also manages an absolute return growth mandate and is chief&nbsp;investment officer&nbsp;of Premier, is handing over to Wright as he wishes to concentrate on his other&nbsp;duties at the group.<\/p>\n<p>Wright, who managed&nbsp;a number of hedge funds for Thames River,&nbsp;joins Premier on 1 September.<\/p>\n<p>Wright&nbsp;is expected to&nbsp;restructure the&nbsp;Dividend Fund when he arrives,&nbsp;which could see it&nbsp;employ a similar&nbsp;strategy to the one used&nbsp;by the Schroder Income Maximiser Acc&nbsp;fund. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Managing director of sales and marketing, Simon Weldon, said: &#8216;Chris brings a lot of pan European equity experience with him and has been on both sides of the buy-sell fence so we are confident he will make an excellent addition to the team.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citywire.co.uk\/professional\/-\/news\/fund-news\/content.aspx?ID=312366\" target=\"_self\">Read Complete Article<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CityWire &#8211; Premier Asset Management has hired&nbsp;former Thames River hedge fund specialist Chris Wright to take&nbsp;control of&nbsp;the Premier Dividend Fund&nbsp;from Paul Branigan.&nbsp; Branigan, who also manages an absolute return growth mandate and is chief&nbsp;investment officer&nbsp;of Premier, is handing over to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[508,534,649,2392,128,1865,65,1071,2390,1271,2391],"class_list":["post-8486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-bad-news","tag-biannual-survey","tag-bridget","tag-farce","tag-fink","tag-germany-austria","tag-june-14","tag-martin-currie","tag-massive-losses","tag-private-sector-pension","tag-retirement-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486","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=8486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}