Rubicon Fund Management Taps Ex-Morgan Stanley Exec Sands as Partner

Veteran Morgan Stanley executive Anna Sands has joined Rubicon Fund Management as a partner. 

Sands will be based out of London and has joined Rubicon’s leadership team, according to Finance Magnates. Prior to her new position, Sands was executive director, FXEM hedge fund sales for Morgan Stanley. She joined the investment bank in 2007 and left in January 2016., Her LinkedIn profile shows a March start date for the new position.

The move is the latest example of alternative investment professionals departing large Wall Street banks for private fund managers in the wake of increased regulation, higher risk capital ratios and tighter controls on proprietary trading as part of post-crisis industry reforms such as Dodd Frank and Basel III.

London-based Rubicon, co-founded by Paul Brewer and Anthony Leitch in 1999, manages the Rubicon Global Fund, a discretionary macro vehicle that invests in macroeconomic themes across equities, commodities, fixed income and foreign exchange.