Hunt Capital Acquires Peak 8 Asset Management
Posted on 03/28/2019
El Paso, Texas-based Hunt Capital Holdings acquired Greenwich, CT-based Peak 8 Asset Management LLC, an investment management firm specializing in alternative fixed income investments and illiquid asset classes. Peak manages around US$ 600 million in assets, mostly for insurance companies.
The employees of Peak 8 Asset Management, including its president, will remain at the firm. The company will continue to operate independently under its own name. David Moran founded Peak 8. Before creating the company, Moran was President of PartnerRe Principal Finance.
Hunt Capital Holdings is part of Hunt Companies. M.L. Hunt and his sons, Jack Hunt and Kelly Hunt, formed Hunt Sales Company in El Paso, Texas, in 1947. By the 1960s, the company moved into private real estate development and military base housing.
