Horizon Cash Management LLC has hired Jill A. King as a portfolio manager.
King joins a trading team of four and is responsible for the implementation of investment management strategies at the firm. She reports to Cary Musser, senior VP and senior portfolio manager at Horizon.
“Jill brings considerable expertise to our investment team, and her extensive and diverse knowledge of the markets we operate in is a tremendous professional asset to our clients and to our firm,” said Diane Mix, the company’s founder.
King brings to her new role more than 15 years of experience in trading fixed-income securities. Most recently, King was a fixed-income trader and consultant at Northern Trust Securities in Chicago, where she traded a range of fixed-income products including money market instruments, US Treasury securities, agencies and corporate bonds. Prior to Northern Trust Securities, she was a consultant at
Liquidnet, a Manhattan-based broker/dealer. She was previously managing director of both fixed-income and investment banking at Melvin Securities, LLC in Chicago. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.