Investment - Articles - LGIM announces senior hires for Asset Allocation team

 Legal & General Investment Management is pleased to announce two new senior hires within its Asset Allocation team. Willem Klijnstra and Chris Jeffery will join at the beginning of March as strategists within the Tactical Asset Allocation Research and Strategy area. Willem and Chris will work closely with LGIM’s portfolio management and investment teams, both in fixed income and asset allocation, and their insight will be used more broadly across the Legal & General Group asset allocation process.

 Willem and Chris previously held senior positions within the Multi-Asset Solutions team at BNP Paribas Investment Partners, where Willem was Head of Research and acting Chief Investment Officer and Chris was a Senior Tactical Asset Allocation Strategist. Both have deep knowledge and experience of multi-asset research and alpha generation, and a thorough understanding of how macroeconomic views influence a broad range of asset classes, as well as more in-depth knowledge of specific areas of the markets. They will both report to Emiel van den Heiligenberg, Head of Asset Allocation at LGIM.

 Emiel commented: “These hires continue to build on the market-leading global macroeconomic and strategic expertise within LGIM’s Asset Allocation team. Willem and Chris will join the team that develops themes and ideas that are central to our macro driven investment process. Their arrival will be a great addition to this already very successful group and will further strengthen the multi-asset capabilities of LGIM.”