Advent Capital Adds Investment Industry Veteran to Business Development Team

New York, April 05, 2018 -- Advent Capital Management, LLC (“Advent”), an investment management firm with more than $9 billion in assets under management, announced today that Alex von Ziegesar has joined the firm as managing director of business development, reporting to Kris Haber, the firm’s Chief Operating Officer. Alex will be responsible for marketing a variety of traditional and alternative strategies in the U.S. institutional channel. 

“We’re extremely excited to welcome Alex to the Advent family, where we continue to see a need and demand from institutional investors for innovative traditional and alternative strategies given rising volatility and climbing interest rates,” said Kris Haber. “Given his experience working across various asset classes, as well as his ability to form lasting business relationships, Alex will be an integral part of our efforts to help bring Advent’s strategies to investors searching for alternatives to traditional asset classes.”

Alex, who is based in New York, brings 19 years of industry experience and expertise engaging with a variety of private equity, hedge fund and structured product solutions. He has developed deep relationships as a fund marketing manager across endowment & foundation, insurance, corporate/public pension and family offices investors in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America.

Prior to joining Advent, von Ziegesar headed investor relations and business development for Talara Capital Management in New York. There, he successfully helped lead strong growth of the alternative asset management firm, which specializes in public and private market investment strategies. Before that, Alex spent nearly a decade leading alternative investment sales for BBVA, growing institutional and private capital for the company’s diverse product suite. He spent the beginning of his career, from 1999-2007, in various sales positions at a number of large financial institutions including Société Générale, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley. Alex holds a master’s degree from the Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where he studied international finance and business. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Vermont.

About Advent Capital Management, LLC

Advent Capital Management, LLC was founded in 1995 and actively manages more than $9 billion across alternative and traditional strategies. Advent’s team consists of 60 employees in New York and London, including 24 seasoned investment professionals performing bottom-up fundamental research and capitalizing on opportunities on a global scale.

Advent has generated compelling annualized risk‐adjusted returns across all strategies since inception and its client base includes some of the world’s largest public and corporate pension plans, foundations, endowments, insurance companies and high net worth individuals.

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