Qblue Balanced hires senior portfolio manager from AQR
Copenhagen-based asset manager Qblue Balanced has hired Esben Hedegaard as Senior Portfolio Manager as of September 1, the company announces.
Hedegaard has spent the past five years (2015-2020) at the US asset manager AQR Capital Management, where he worked in the commodities research team as well as in the portfolio construction team.
He holds a PhD in finance from the NYU Stern School of Business, where he studied between 2007-2012. Before moving to New York, Hedegaard spent three years (2004-2007) as an analyst at Danske Market's quantitative research unit.
In addition to his PhD, Hedegaard has a master's degree in Statistics from Copenhagen University (2002-2004)
Second hire
At the end of August, Qblue Balanced also hired Amanda Ladeira Pereira as its new sales and relationship manager for the Nordics and EMEA. Pereira worked as a senior fixed income and derivative sales manager at Danske Bank (2014-2020)
QBlue Balanced was co-founded in 2018 by Bjarne Graven Larsen, former Chief Investment Officer at ATP and Ontrario Teacher's Pension Plan. Graven Larsen serves as the company's CEO.
Systematic manager hires sales manager for Nordics and EMEA
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