European gold ETC champions WisdomTree, with USD23.9 billion in assets in commodities, and USD15.8 billion specifically in gold, has hired the former Institutional Relationship Manager covering EMEA from the World Gold Council, Nilesh Parmar, as Director of UK Institutional Sales, in a move that reflects the importance of both gold and the European institutional investor audience for the firm.    

WisdomTree, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) and exchange-traded product (ETP) sponsor, has appointed of Nilesh Parmar as Director of UK Institutional Sales.

Europe’s first and only white labeller, HANetf, is having quite the year, having hit well over USD2 billion in assets on the back of bitcoin and cannabis. Hector McNeil (pictured), co-founder and co-CEO of the firm has now announced that they have hired Manooj Mistry, former head of Index Investing at DWS.

Decama Capital Ltd, an Israeli investment company headquartered in the UK and listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, has appointed Professor Lior Elbaz as Chief Development Officer. 

Aviva Investors has made two hires to its Infrastructure Equity team – Charles Herriott as Associate Director and Andrea Pelizzari as Associate.

December saw thematic ETF provider Global X ETFs announce that it was to open in Europe, with Rob Oliver from JP Morgan as Head of Business Development for Global X ETFs in Europe and Morgane Delledonne (pictured) from BMO Global Asset Management, as Director of Research.

Wilshire Phoenix has appointed Wade Guenther, CFA as a Partner and Head of Strategy.

Old Mission, a global, multi-asset market-making firm, today announced the addition of Todd Hollander as Global Head of ETFs. Mr. Hollander will be responsible for driving further growth of the firm’s direct-to-institutional customer ETF business, which was launched last year.

Defiance has appointed Sylvia Jablonski, as Chief Investment Officer of Defiance ETFs. 

European fixed income ETF provider, Tabula Investment Management, has hired ETF industry veteran Stefan Garcia as a Managing Director to help drive the firm’s continued growth.