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New Holland Capital, the $6.8bn platform, is starting a new equity trading unit as it continues its expansion.
John Gisondi and Mark Walker are leading the launch of a unit, New Amsterdam Principal Strategies, which will house 8-10 equity sector specialists running strategies which don’t overlap.
The multi-strategy investing firm, which allocates mainly via SMA, made a series of promotions late last year, and started an internal investing platform, named Plum Island Partners.
Plum Island is headed by Omar Qaiser, formerly of North Rock, and will focus on niche, capacity-constrained strategies, meaning talent can choose between taking capital and setting up their own shop or going in-house at New Holland.
Qaiser was announced as a partner in the changes announced November, alongside:
- Chris Bridges and Conner Murphy, senior investment professionals and leaders of New Holland’s investment activities in liquid markets, responsible for sourcing, evaluating and monitoring investments.
- Dan Grodziak, responsible for overseeing the firm’s quantitative research team, which is tasked with promoting investment-related data integrity.
- Andrew Parchman, a senior investment professional at the firm and a leader of New Holland’s investment activities in private assets. He is responsible for sourcing, evaluating and monitoring investments across special opportunities strategies.
General counsel Nick Rontiris was named President, he also oversees governance and structuring matters related to the firm and its investments.
“Our evolution and success is a direct reflection of the incredible talent and leadership we possess across our firm,” said Scott Radke, CEO and co-CIO.
“These appointments will further position New Holland for our next chapter of growth and innovation, as we seek to deliver broadly diversified, absolute return focused strategies across niche investment styles in public and private markets.”
New Holland seeks to generate alpha across a wide set of diversifying strategies, with a preference for niche, capacity constrained opportunities often with emerging portfolio managers.
The new equity trading unit was first reported by Bloomberg.