Investment management firm Franklin Templeton has appointed James Peoples, Tatiana Lazareva and Laura Hadrill as senior alternatives sales specialists, EMEA.
In these newly created positions, Mr Peoples, Ms Lazareva and Ms Hadrill will work in close coordination with regional distribution teams to engage wealth management, family office and institutional clients on Franklin Templeton’s private markets and liquid alternatives strategies, with specific focus on those from its specialist investment managers, Benefit Street Partners and K2 Advisors.
Mr Peoples and Mr Hadrill will be based in London and Ms Lazareva will be based in Amsterdam.
Before joining Franklin Templeton, Mr Peoples was a principal at CQS and worked at Muzinich and BlueBay Asset Management as sales director with a global remit. He started his career by spending seven years at Goldman Sachs on the credit trading desk and as an institutional portfolio manager on its fixed income team.
Ms Lazareva joins Franklin Tempeton from Schroders Capital, where she was director. Before that, she was head of investor relations at EG Capital Advisors. Ms Lazareva started her career in financial services at Citigroup in the global markets team, where she was responsible for asset and liability product solutions.
Finally, Ms Hadrill joins from BlueBay Asset Management where she spent 14 years as sales director.
George Szemere, head of sales at Franklin Templeton commented: “Our global alternatives platform has developed rapidly in the last three years to over $200 billion in aggregate alternative assets under management and we now have a breadth of strategies and solutions to offer our EMEA clients. In this regard, I am delighted to welcome James, Tatiana and Laura, whose collective strong experience and approach to partnering with our distribution teams will further help develop Franklin Templeton’s alternatives business in the EMEA region.
“Alternatives have become an increasingly important consideration for all client segments and as investors continue to navigate the uncertain market environment, having access to a diverse range of alternatives strategies outside traditional asset classes should play an even more important role in delivering specific investment outcomes.”
