"As investor demand for outcome oriented solutions continues to accelerate, clients are increasingly looking to the asset managers who can deliver on a multi-asset approach that looks holistically across all asset classes and return sources," said Zlotnikov. "Jess brings an impressive depth of experience in creating and managing these outcome oriented solutions and will be instrumental in evolving our multi-asset research across our global platform."
Prior to joining AB, Gaspar most recently served as Head of Asset Allocation and Research at Commonfund, an investment organization serving the nonprofit community, where he developed strategic, cyclical and tactical asset allocation and portfolio risk management systems. Previously, he was director of research for the global macro hedge fund
In recent years, AB has continued to build out its multi-asset capabilities globally, most recently through the acquisition of
*In Pensions & Investments 2015 survey, AB ranked as the largest custom target-date manager by assets under management.
About AB's
AB's Multi-Asset Solutions Group is a dedicated team of more than 25 investment professionals that utilizes its deep capital markets expertise, research insights and a full range of risk/return sources as building blocks to create integrated multi-asset investment solutions tailored to the needs of each client. These include glide path strategies like target-date and lifetime income solutions for defined contribution plans, asset allocation strategies and solutions targeting unique market index and factor exposures.
About AB
AB is a leading global investment management firm that offers high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional investors, individuals and private wealth clients in major world markets.
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Andrea Prochniak, Investors, 212.756.4542, andrea.prochniak@abglobal.com; Jonathan Freedman, Media, 212.823.2687, jonathan.freedman@abglobal.com