Titan Advisors, the US independent fund-of-funds firm, has added Herman Laret to its manager research global macro team as a senior analyst.

Titan Advisors, the US independent fund-of-funds firm, has added Herman Laret to its manager research global macro team as a senior analyst.

Laret was formerly a managing director in global cross-asset macro product sales at Credit Suisse. He also served as co-head of interest rate sales and as treasury product manager. Laret had two stints totaling nearly 14 years at Credit Suisse, separated by a three-year period as a partner and senior portfolio manager at MKP Capital.

Alongside his duties at Credit Suisse, Laret sat on the Hedge Fund Investment Committee, responsible for investing the firm’s proprietary capital in hedge funds. Additionally, he served on the Managing Directors Evaluation Committee from 2012 to 2013, and in 1999 implemented Credit Suisse’s global analytics system “Lotus.”

Laret began his career in 1990 at Salomon Brothers in London, where he was on the mergers and acquisitions desk. He then transferred to Salomon’s New York office where he became a government bond trader.

Titan Advisors was established in 2001 and provides institutional and high net worth investors with both comingled and custom portfolios of hedge fund managers. They mostly allocate long/short equity, global macro/commodity, and event-driven strategies.