Question: What position did American financial services director John Hailer recently retire from in an asset management group related to a large French corporate and investment bank?

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Investment control: Investment control or investment controlling is a monitoring function within the asset management, portfolio management or investment management.  It is concerned with independently supervising and monitoring the quality of asset management accounts with the aim of ensuring performance and quality in order to provide the required benefit for the asset management client.  Dependent on setup, investment controlling not only encompasses controlling activities but also can include areas from compliance to performance review.  Investment controlling aspects can also be taken into consideration by asset management clients or investment advisers/consultants and consequently it is likely that these stakeholders also run certain investment controlling activities.

CDH Investment Bank: CDH Investment Bank, commonly referred to as CDHIB, is an investment bank in Malawi.  It is one of the banks licensed by the Reserve Bank of Malawi, the national banking regulator.  The bank is the 12th bank to open in Malawi.  The bank, is a subsidiary of CDH Holdings Limited, which in turn is a subsidiary of TransAfrica Holdings Limited, a financial services group, headquartered in Mauritius.  Other companies in the CDH group include, CDH Asset Management Limited, CDH Commodities Limited, CDH Capital Limited and CDH Properties Limited.

Investment One: Investment One Financial Services Limited was incorporated in 2008 as GTB Asset Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, is licensed by the Securities & Exchange Commission Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) to provide several capital market services, including acting as trustees to bond issuance programmes and collective investment schemes.  Following recent reforms in the banking industry initiated by the Central Bank of Nigeria, GTBank recently divested its ownership through a management buyout.The Company’s name then changed to Investment One Financial Services.

A. G. Edwards: A.G. Edwards, Inc. was an American financial services holding company; its principal wholly owned subsidiary was A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., which operated as a full-service securities broker-dealer in the United States and Europe.  Firm was acquired by Wachovia Securities, which later was acquired by Wells Fargo Advisors.  The firm provided securities and commodities brokerage, investment banking, trust services, asset management, financial and retirement planning, private client services, investment management, and other related financial services to individual, governmental, and institutional clients.

Mehraj Mattoo: Mehraj Mattoo (महराज मट्टू ) is a British investment banker, economist and author; currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard University.  He is the Co-founder and CEO of Commonwealth Asset Management.  According to the UK and Cayman Islands company records, Commonwealth Asset Management is majority owned by NR Investments, the investment vehicle of the Rothschild Family.  Before co-founding Commonwealth, Dr. Mattoo was Global Head of Asset Management at Commerzbank AG, leading one of the largest hedge fund and private equity groups globally (Investhedge 2009; The Billion Dollar Club).  Prior to Commerzbank, Dr. Mattoo was the Managing Director of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, the investment banking arm of Dresdner Bank AG, the second largest bank in Germany.  In the mid-1990s, Dr. Mattoo co-founded the first fund derivatives group in the City at BNP Paribas, the largest French/global bank by assets.  He is widely credited for pioneering the use of structured products on alternative investments, especially hedge funds, that helped attract institutional assets to the hedge fund industry and contributed to its explosive growth over the following decade.  In the early 1990s, Dr. Mattoo established and led the Structured Products business at NatWest Markets, the investment banking arm of Britain's largest bank, National Westminster Bank, now part of RBS Group and led an educational effort aimed at promoting responsible use of derivatives by corporations and institutional investors.

Natixis: Natixis is a French corporate and investment bank created in November 2006 from the merger of the asset management and investment banking operations of "Natexis Banque Populaire" (Banque Populaire group) and "IXIS" (Groupe Caisse d'Epargne).

Ladenburg Thalmann: Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services, a NYSE MKT-listed company, is a diversified financial services company with two primary business lines: one is independent brokerage and advisory, and the other is investment banking and capital markets.  More specifically, the company is engaged in investment banking, equity research, institutional sales and trading, independent brokerage and advisory services, asset management services and trust services through its principal subsidiaries, Ladenburg Thalmann & Co.  Inc., Securities America, Investacorp, Inc., Triad Advisors, Inc., Ladenburg Thalmann Asset Management Inc. and Premier Trust, Inc.  It is based in Miami, Florida.

Saga Investment Bank: Saga Investment Bank hf.  is an independent investment bank in Iceland, specialising in providing a range of investment services including corporate finance, securities brokerage, asset management, bond issues and investment advice for companies, institutions and other professional investors.  The firm operates according to the Financial Institutions Act No. 161/2002 under the supervision of the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority.

John Hailer: John Thomas Hailer (born 1960) is an American financial services executive, who recently retired in April 2017 as President and Chief Executive Officer of Natixis Global Asset Management – The Americas & Asia.  Natixis Global Asset Management, also known as NGAM, is a subsidiary of Natixis, a French bank.

Palisades Hudson Financial Group: Palisades Hudson Financial Group LLC, was founded in 1993 by Larry M. Elkin.  The fee-only financial and tax-planning firm also has an affiliated Registered Investment Adviser arm, Palisades Hudson Asset Management, L.P., which began in 1997.  Palisades Hudson Asset Management had more than $1.1 billion in assets under management as of April 2013.  It offers services including personal financial planning, estate planning, tax planning and tax return preparation, and (through Palisades Hudson Asset Management, L.P.) investment management and asset allocation.

Supporting paragraphs: John Hailer Natixis
Answer: President and Chief Executive Officer