Sohail Jaffer
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Sohail Jaffer is a Partner and CIO within the FWU Group, the independent fast growing international financial services group headquartered in Munich . FWU Group's core activities comprise asset management, life insurance (Family Takaful and unit linked investment plans) and pensions. As Managing Director of Premium Select Lux SA, an asset management subsidiary of FWU AG in Luxembourg, his responsibilities include fund product development, the evaluation and selection of external asset managers for multi-manager programmes and building international distribution across bank and other financial intermediary channels for a broad array of private label wealth management solutions including a Dynamic Quant global equity investment strategy and socially responsible investment products. From June 1998 until June 1999 he was Senior Vice President within the International Mutual Funds Group of Scudder,Stevens and Clark Ltd, based in London and responsible for international product development in Europe and Japan . From January 1989 until May 1998 Mr Jaffer worked in Citibank London.
He was with the Financial Institutions Group until 1996 and later was Director within Citibank's Alternative Investment Strategies Group, which formed part of Citibank Global Asset Management. His responsibilities included international business and product development, designing structured fund products linked to a broad spectrum of alternative investments, and the sales and marketing of a wide range of Alternative Investment Funds to institutional investors in Europe and the Middle East region. He is a UK qualified accountant (FCCA) and was an Audit Partner with Pricewaterhouse. A Council Member of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) for the Benelux region and he was also Chairman of AIMA for two consecutive terms from 1997 to 2000. He is also an active member of AIMA's Investment Research Committee. He has written extensively on alternative investments throughout the financial media, edited ‘Alternative Investment Strategies', “Funds of Hedge Funds” for professional investors and managers and contributed a chapter to ‘Evaluating and Implementing Hedge Fund Strategies' (second edition), all published by Euromoney books. Recently he also edited a new Euromoney publication on”Islamic Asset Management”. Sohail is a member of ALFI's Asset Management Advisory Committee and of ALFI's Hedge Fund Committee. ALFI is the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry . |