Opus Alternative Strategies Fund Ld Announcements
Appointment of Director
27 November 2007 15:28:37
Opus Alternative Strategies Fd Ltd
27 November 2007
Stock Exchange Announcement
For immediate release 27 November 2007
OPUS Alternative Strategies Fund Ltd (the "Fund")
Re: Appointment of Director
The Board of Directors of the Fund (the "Board") wishes to announce that with
effect from 28 November 2007 Daniel de Fernando (the "Director") has been
appointed as a director of the Fund.
Daniel de Fernando is currently Head of Asset Management and Private Banking at
BBVA. He was appointed Head of Asset Management in January 2003 and Head of
Private Banking in October 2002.
Previously, he was employed by JP Morgan Madrid as Fixed Income Portfolio
Manager from 1989 to 1992 and Equity Portfolio Manager from 1993 to 1995. He
then worked in JPMIM London as Equity Portfolio Manager in International
Investment Group from March 1995 until August 1996. Following this he returned
to JP Morgan Madrid where he was Head of Investments from September 1996 until
June 1997. He was then appointed Co-head of AMS until December 1998 and also
acted as Chairman and CEO of Morgan Gestion, S.A. during this period. From
October 1998 until October 2001, the Director worked with JP Morgan Private Bank
as Managing Director and Head of Investment Management for EMEA and Asia and
from October 2001 until October 2002 as Managing Director and Head of Wealth
Management for Europe, Africa and Middle East.
Daniel de Fernando holds a Law Degree and a Business Administration Degree both
from Universidad Pontificia de Comillas - ICADE.
The Director has no unspent convictions, has never been declared bankrupt, nor
has he been the subject of an individual voluntary arrangement or a receivership
of any assets held by him. The Director was not a director with an executive
function of any company at the time of or within the 12 months preceding its
bankruptcy, receivership administration, liquidation administration, company
voluntary arrangement or composition or arrangement with its creditors generally
or any class of its creditors. There have been no public criticisms of the
Director by any statutory or regulatory authority nor has the Director ever been
disqualified by a court from acting as a director of a company or from acting in
the management or conduct of the affairs of any company. The Director has not
been a partner of any partnership at the time or within 12 months preceding its
compulsory liquidation, administration or partnership voluntary arrangement.
The Director has not had a receiver appointed over any of his assets or of any
of the assets of a partnership of which he was a partner or within 12 months
after he ceased to be a partner of that partnership.
A memorandum detailing the names of all companies and partnerships of which the
Director has been a director or partner in the past five years, together with an
indication of whether or not he is still a director or partner, is available for
inspection at the Offices of Goodbody Stockbrokers, Ballsbridge Park,
Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
Enquiries:
Goodbody Stockbrokers Aisling Murphy
+353 1 6419151
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