Zenith Investment Partners, the Australian investment research firm, has named a new manager for alternatives research.

James Tsinidis returns to the company after spending a year at Bell Potter Securities, where he was an associate analyst for the banking and diversified financials unit covering small-cap wealth management stocks. He was previously a senior investment analyst at Zenith and had worked for the research house for almost seven years.

The appointment was concurrent with the hire of Scott Lin as investment analyst also with the alternatives team. Lin used to be a performance analyst at NAB Asset Servicing. His previous experience includes being an advisor for the internal audit and risk advisory services team at KPMG.

Zenith Investment Partners is based in Melbourne and specialises in asset consulting and investment research advise, investment committee participation and model portfolio construction and reporting.