NEW YORK, July 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Alpine Global Management, LLC, a leading investment firm specializing in event-driven trading of equity-based instruments across global markets, today announced the hiring of Gene Song as a Portfolio Manager and Global Head of Equity Capital Markets (ECM). Mr. Song brings to Alpine Global 25 years of ECM experience and has led sales teams at some of the world’s pre-eminent banking organizations.
“We are delighted to welcome Gene Song to Alpine Global. He brings deep experience and unparalleled knowledge of the equity capital markets, and has earned the respect of leading institutional clients, attributes that will be extremely valuable,” said Uriel Cohen, Co-Founder of Alpine Global Management.
Before joining Alpine Global, Mr. Song worked at Citi, most recently as Head of Institutional Equity sales in New York, where he was responsible for both the Emerging Hedge Fund and Institutional Equity sales desks. Mr. Song headed one of Citi’s largest sales teams globally, earning high marks from clients in the Greenwich and Institutional Investor rankings. Prior to his nearly 17-year career at Solomon Smith Barney/Citi, Mr. Song worked in Equity sales at Merrill Lynch, and he began his career at Paine Webber in 1993. Mr. Song is a graduate of Binghamton University and resides with his wife and two children in Cresskill, NJ.
“I am excited to be joining forces with a growing firm such as Alpine Global, which has a well-deserved reputation for its entrepreneurial culture and ability to attract talented professionals whose expertise and insight enable the firm to unlock unique opportunities in the global financial markets,” stated Mr. Song.
Alpine Global’s unique and sophisticated trading strategies have previously attracted many senior professionals from premier banks with long histories of successful trading. Mr. Song joins other senior hires leading trading groups such as Mr. Arthur Ayzerov, former Head of Portfolio Trading at JP Morgan; Mr. Bret Chesney, former head of Program Trading for Bear Stearns; and Mr. John Ripley, who was the Global Head of Delta One trading at Deutsche Bank. Alpine’s mix of strong capital markets backgrounds, risk management, and cutting edge analytics makes for fertile ground for successful portfolio managers.
About Alpine Global Management, LLC
Alpine Global is an investment firm with a breadth of sophisticated trading strategies that center on identifying repeatable trading opportunities spanning a wide range of approaches and covering global markets across asset classes. Alpine Global focuses on global arbitrage opportunities, generating alpha through the identification of disparate market pricing between Futures/ETFs/Indices.
Founded in 2008 by Uriel Cohen and Charles Kim with the differentiated focus to “let traders trade,” Alpine Global values an entrepreneurial environment supported by robust analytics, world-class technology and dynamic risk management.
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