HSBC GAM appoints private markets specialist

HSBC Global Asset Management has appointed Jorge Huitron as senior product specialist for private markets in the Alternatives team.
Huitron will be responsible for developing HSBC Global Asset Management's private markets offering and expanding the platform to a larger institutional investor base across Europe and Asia. Based in London, he will report to Steven Ward, global head of Alternative Products, HSBC Global Asset Management.
He joins from AON Hewitt where he was senior consultant advising on private equity investment across public and corporate pension plans. Prior to that, Huitron spent more than seven years at financial services firm Bfinance, first as senior associate and later as director in private market research.
Huitron's appointment follows the recent hiring of Shantini Nair as senior product specialist for infrastructure debt.