Frontier expands its asset consultants team

27 January 2022
| By Oksana Patron |
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Frontier has announced a further expansion of its asset consultants team with two senior appointments which included Priya Patel and Michiel Swaak being appointed as senior consultants.

Patel, who would be working in Frontier’s responsible investment group, has over 15 years of environmental, social, governance (ESG) experience across consulting, property, infrastructure, corporate, banking and government. She joined from VFMC where she served as investment stewardship manager.

Swaak, who would be working in the alternatives and derivatives research team, headed by Scott Pappas, would bring extensive experience across hedge funds and research more broadly, along with strong quantitative skills.

Swaak, who began his career more than 20 years ago in the Netherlands in banking, pension funds and asset management, more recently worked at QIC, a family office, Macquarie and Deloitte.

The firm said it had been hiring strongly in recent months adding seven new associates, a quantitative researcher and three new members to its dedicated technology team – now fourteen strong.

In addition, Frontier has established a university finance PhD intern program, with the first two interns joining in January, to further boost the quantitative capability of Frontier’s capital markets and asset allocation research.

 “We are very pleased to have added a record number of clients, from a range of sectors, in recent months. Our recruitment efforts will help us add capability and capacity for further growth and help us maintain a healthy consultant to client ratio,” Frontier chief executive, Andrew Polson, said.

"We are currently looking to fill a range of additional roles, including very senior client consulting and specialist research roles. We hope to progressively announce these appointments in the coming weeks.”

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