Hedge Funds Sales, Marketing Head At DeAWM Americas Joins Insight Investment

Eliane Chavagnon

3 June 2014

Svein Floden has left his post as head of hedge fund sales and marketing at Deutsche Bank Asset and Wealth Management Americas to become head of business development for liquid alternatives, Americas, at the UK institutional asset manager Insight Investment.

Floden, who formerly at Deutsche was also director of institutional alternatives distribution for the Latin America region, is based in New York and reports to Philip Anker, global head of distribution at Insight.

Floden will be responsible for developing products and implementing a distribution plan for Insight’s liquid alternatives, total return and absolute return products across the Americas.

Prior to Deutsche Bank, Floden was a member of the Latin America group at Citigroup’s Private Bank in New York.

“We have been developing our investment offering to meet the increasingly global demands of our institutional and wholesale clients,” said Anker.

Owned by BNY Mellon, Insight manages £295 billion across fixed income, liability-driven investment, absolute return, cash management, multi-asset, specialist equity and currency strategies.