French asset manager Amundi has appointed Michael Hart as deputy chief executive officer and global head of business development to its alternative investments subsidiary in London.

French asset manager Amundi has appointed Michael Hart as deputy chief executive officer and global head of business development to its alternative investments subsidiary in London.

Hart has over twenty years of experience in alternative investments and was previously global head of business development of hedge fund solutions at Aberdeen Asset Management.

From 2000 to 2011 he worked for Bfinance investment consultants and before that, he worked on institutional and corporate business development at Morley Fund Management in London. He spent his early career in institutional business development in New York.

With over $12 billion in assets, Amundi AI is the alternative branch of Amundi dedicated to absolute return solutions.