Arini Taps Goldman Alum for Real Estate, Asset-Backed Strategies

Arini, an alternative-asset manager, hired former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive Nabil Aquedim as head of real estate and asset-backed strategies.

The London-based firm, which has $4.5 billion of assets under management and is best known for credit bets, said Aquedim will serve on its management and investment committees.

“The dislocation of the real estate sector combined with the shift away of traditional lenders from the asset-backed lending space is creating a significant opportunity,” Hamza Lemssouguer, Arini’s founder and chief investment officer, said in an emailed statement Wednesday.

Aquedim joined Goldman in 2011, and was most recently a managing ...