Australian alternative fund manager, East Coast Capital Management (ECCM), is pleased to announce the appointment of Simone Haslinger as Chief Executive Officer.
Simone joins ECCM from J.P. Morgan where she served as Co-Head of Equity Capital Markets. With 20 years of investment banking experience at J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank, she brings a wealth of expertise. Simone is also a Non-Executive Director with ASX-listed DroneShield and National Storage REIT.
ECCM specialises in quantitative trading strategies for wholesale clients. Its flagship fund, the ECCM Systemic Trend Fund, uses a proprietary directional futures model to trade more than 70 international futures markets including commodities, currencies, long term government bonds, short term interest rates and equity indices.
“We’re delighted to have Simone on board. As a seasoned banking executive, she will play a pivotal role in strengthening and expanding our leadership team, and driving future growth”, said Adam Havryliv, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of ECCM.
“We’ve now delivered a 5-year track record with the ECCM Systemic Trend Fund program, with investor returns of 108% over that period, or 15.8% on an annualised basis,” Mr Havryliv added.
“It’s an exciting time to be joining ECCM. I am looking forward to driving the expansion of ECCM’s growth, building on the success of the ECCM Systemic Trend Fund to date,” said Ms Haslinger.
In her new role at ECCM, Simone will be responsible for accelerating and leading the business’ growth in assets under management, focusing on wholesale and institutional investor channels.
Simone commenced with ECCM on 24 January 2025.
The ECCM Systematic Trend Fund was recently awarded Best Global Macro and Managed Futures Fund for 2024 at the Hedge Funds Rock & Australian Alternative Investment Awards.
About East Coast Capital Management
Established in 2008, East Coast Capital Management (ECCM) is a Sydney-based systematic fund manager, developing and implementing quantitative trading strategies. Its flagship strategy,ECCM Systematic Trend Fund(ECCM STF), seeks to exploit directional price trends across a portfolio of over 70 diversified and liquid global futures markets including equity indices, foreign exchange, fixed income and commodity markets, and has a 5 year track record.
The Fund’s approach aims to deliver returns with a low correlation to traditional asset classes.