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Norman Kilarjian – Head of Relative Value and Tactical Research
Norm has over 20 years of proprietary trading and fund of hedge funds investing experience. He joined Aksia at its inception in October 2006 as the Head of the Tactical Trading and Relative Value research team. Norm’s team is responsible for the sourcing, strategy research, and risk management of client investments in Tactical Trading and Relative Value funds. Norm performs investment due diligence on hedge funds in the Tactical Trading and Relative Value sectors and manages a team of research professionals.
Prior to Aksia, Norm was a director and head of the equity arbitrage sector team, and a member of the Hedge Fund Investment Group Investment Committee at Credit Suisse. Norm began his career as a convertible arbitrage proprietary trader for Ernst & Company, where he spent six years and was responsible for all aspects of trading a hedged convertibles portfolio. In 1995, Norm joined Focus Investment Group. During his nine years at Focus, Norm was responsible for relative value investments, a member of the asset management committee, and was also involved in the hedge fund manager seeding activities for the firm.