Aspect Capital, a London-based hedge fund manager with $750m (€861m) in assets under management, has hired Alexandre Guillaume from CDC Ixis Capital Markets.

Guillaume, a fund manager with 10 years of European quantitative equity experience, joins as an European equity product manager. Aspect's equity team now manages more than $160m. Prior to CDC Ixis, Guillaume worked for Société Générale as head of quantitative research.