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Pacific Investments, a UK-based investment shop with strong ties to the Asian region, has hired  former HSBC asset manager Will Bartlett and former senior Deutsche Bank manager Louis Cucciniello to its newly-formed multi-asset business.

The new entity is called Pacific Asset Management, launched on 30 November this year, the firm said in a statement yesterday. 

Bartleet was a former multi-asset manager at HSBC, working at HSBC Asset Management for 16 years, while Cucciniello was global head of risk factors at the German banking group. He worked at that bank for almost a decade. Among Cucciniello’s roles was MD and global head of multi-asset trading at the firm’s investment bank.

Pacific Investments was founded in 1994 by Sir John Beckwith, a luminary of the UK investments sector, and Mark Johnson, who has been a founder of a host of money management firms such as Thames River Capital and Liontrust; the firm and comprises three divisions: asset management, real estate and private equity.