Cargill Investor Services (CIS) has begun offering securities services via its Strategic Investment Group (SIG), headed by new ceo Les Allan, who joined the company earlier this year from Lehman Brothers, where he had been md of equity hedge fund sales.
SIG has been set up to provide a multi-asset class capability to hedge funds and institutional clients. At the time of Allan's appointment, CIS chairman James Davison said he and his Lehman team were...