Thames River boosts credit team with hedge fund hire

Thames River Capital has hired Dahlia Verjee as a senior trader on its global credit team.

Verjee was previously a principal trader at liquidated US-based hedge fund group Deephaven Capital Management, where she worked mainly in high yield credit. Before that, Verjee was a trader and analyst at asset manager D B Zwirn. Thames River raised about $220m for a series of Ucits-compliant credit funds it launched in the last quarter of 2009, including Thames River Credit Select and Thames River Global Credit fund. It also recruited Steven Drew from hedge fund Tudor Investment Corp to head the credit team, which ran about $1.3bn in November. Not immune from the storm that hit...