Anello Asset Management, the independent alternative investment manager and specialist managed account provider, has hired Stavros Loizou to manage the Company’s newly launched Mantis Program.

Stavros Loizou has 23 years of trading experience, most recently as Founder and CEO of Lewis Charles Securities. Prior to this, Stavros was Head of Strategic Trading at Fuji Bank where he was responsible for a portfolio of US $100 million in fixed income, stock indices and spot foreign exchange.

Mark Hewlett, Partner, Anello Asset Management, commented: “The launch of the Mantis Program is an important step for Anello Asset Management as we continue to build our suite of managed accounts, and the hire of Stavros is a massive coup for us given his calibre and extensive market experience.”

AAM’s Mantis Program uses a multi-asset actively managed discretionary approach, which is guided by short term opportunistic market trends with a technical analysis methodology, investing across equities, fixed income, and G-10 currency pairs. The program is primarily aimed at high net worth individuals, single and multi-family offices, and is open to UK and pan-European investors. The programme generated a net positive return of 2.49% in September, its first official month of trading.

Stavros Loizou, Portfolio Manager, Anello Asset Management, said “I am very pleased to have joined Anello Asset Management, and relish the opportunity to run AAM’s Mantis Program.  The program will be based on the same investment principles utilised at Fuji Bank in which I successfully managed the Bank’s proprietary trading book with in excess of $100m in market exposure.”