Ex-GSAM exec joins Asia hedge fund start-up

Hedge fund spin-out Pleiad Investment Advisors has been joined by the former head of regional product strategy and development at Goldman Sachs Asset Management as it readies for launch, AsianInvestor can confirm. Masaki Taniguchi left GSAM in April to take up the role of responsible officer and chief operating officer at Pleiad, as revealed by regulatory registration records. He has pedigree in Asia’s hedge fund industry, having spent more than 10 years at Sparx Group, latterly a…