Deals & People July 16, 2012

Commonfund Names Director of Market Risk

Commonfund has hired Irakli Odisharia as director in its Risk Management Team.
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Odisharia will be responsible for enhancing quantitative market risk analytics in addition to stress testing Commonfund client portfolios and funds. Odisharia will play a critical role in the advancement of Commonfund’s proprietary economic and liquidity stress test models across all multi-asset portfolios and funds.  He will also be responsible for the preparation and presentation of market analysis developments. He will report to Commonfund’s Chief Risk Officer David Belmont.

Before joining Commonfund, Odisharia was with Goldman Sachs Asset Management as a member of its Market Risk Modeling team. He also worked in Goldman Sachs’ Equities Division and its Equity Volatility Group. He holds a PhD in physics from New York University, where he was also a teaching assistant.  

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Commonfund is an institutional investment firm serving nonprofit institutions, pension funds and other institutional investors, offering a range of investment solutions in traditional and alternative strategies.

 

Deals & People July 16, 2012

Lincoln Financial Names Sales Director for Institutional Retirement

Chris Somers joined Lincoln Financial Distributors (LFD) as a regional sales director for the Institutional Retirement Solutions Distribution (IRSD) team.
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Somers will be responsible for selling the firm’s Retirement Plan Services’open-architecture solution through financial representatives in the Northern California and Pacific Northwest regions. He reports to Michael Hall, national sales director of Lincoln’s IRSD team, and will be based in San Francisco.

Somers has more than two decades of sales experience in financial services. Before joining LFD, he was a vice president, external adviser consultant and retirement specialist with PIMCO Investments. He has served in other retirement sales capacities with Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Fidelity Investments, Retirement Services Company. He also served in many sales leadership roles with Ernst & Young LLP.

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He graduated cum laude from St. Mary’s College of California in Moraga with a master’s of business administration degree in international business. He also graduated cum laude from Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, where he was awarded a bachelor’s degree in communications and Russian. He holds FINRA Series 7, 24, 26, 63 and 66 licenses.

The focus of IRSD is Lincoln’s full-service retirement plan services offerings for corporate and nonprofit and tax-exempt plan sponsors.

 

 

 

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