Dresdner Hires Five for Currency Options, Hedge-Fund Sales Desk

By Kim-Mai Cutler

Aug. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Dresdner Kleinwort, the investment- banking arm of Allianz SE, hired five people for its foreign- exchange hedge-fund sales and options desks in London.

Farielle Boufaden will join as a director in foreign-exchange hedge-fund sales from BNP Paribas SA, according to a statement by Dresdner in London today. Greg Kaldor started in May as a managing director on the foreign-exchange hedge-fund sales desk after 22 years at Bank of America Corp., where he headed the institutional foreign-exchange sales desk.

Constantinos Constantinou will return to Dresdner as a director and senior foreign-exchange options trader, according to the statement. Gaelle Cohen started as a Group of 10 foreign- exchange options trader after working at Calyon, the investment- banking arm of Credit Agricole SA.

Brian Healy began in June as a senior foreign-exchange options trader. He was previously at Deutsche Bank AG, where he specialized in so-called exotic currencies.

To contact the reporter on this story: Kim-Mai Cutler in London at kcutler@bloomberg.net