Acadian is pleased to announce that two senior research hires joined the firm in September. Wesley S. Chan has joined as Director of Research Operations. In this role, he will help lead Acadian’s bottom-up research effort together with Malcolm Baker, a Harvard Business School finance professor who acts as a consultant to the firm. Wes’s extensive background in quantitative equity analysis includes experience at GSAM and AlphaSimplex. He holds a B.A. from Princeton and a Ph.D. in financial economics from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
September 2011

Matthew S. Rothman also joins Acadian as Director, Top-Down Research. In this role he will manage the group that is responsible for all of the firm’s quantitative, equity-oriented top-down models. Previously, Matthew was a Managing Director and the Chief Global Quantitative Equity Strategist at Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers, in addition to experience at Sanford C. Bernstein and GSAM. He obtained a Ph.D. in finance from The University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, an MA in statistics from Columbia University and A.B. in philosophy from Brown University.
September 2011

Ryan D. Taliaferro has joined Acadian from Harvard Business School (HBS), where he was Assistant Professor, Finance. Mr. Taliaferro will focus on managed volatility strategies as a member of a team dedicated to Acadian’s pioneering effort in this field.
May 2011

Acadian has been awarded a mandate by a Canadian pension plan to apply our managed volatility approach to a mix of emerging and developed market equities. This is the first time Acadian has implemented such a combined approach for the managed volatility strategy.

We also recently launched an emerging markets only portfolio in this approach; again, a first for the strategy.
May 2011

Acadian Asset Management (U.K.) Ltd., an affiliate of Boston-based Acadian Asset Management LLC, announced that it made two new appointments at its office here.
May 2011

David Kane joined Acadian in January as a Portfolio Manager and Investment Researcher, reporting to CIO John Chisholm. David was previously Chief Executive Officer of Kane Capital Management, based in Cambridge, MA, where he managed over $1 billion in global market-neutral quantitative equity portfolios.
February 2011

Acadian is pleased to announce the launch of the Acadian Emerging Markets Debt Fund, a series of the Advisor’s Inner Circle Fund Series Trust. It trades under the ticker symbol AEMDX.
January 2011

Joshua White joined Acadian in October as a portfolio manager and researcher. Formerly with the SEC, where he was Assistant Director for Disclosure and Governance at the Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation, Josh holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics and an A.B. in Economics from Harvard University.
September 2010