Ferat Ongoren, portfolio manager, has joined Wellington Management as the newest member of the firm's Alternative Investments team. With more than 25 years of industry experience, he will build on the firm’s long tradition of investment excellence and bring his unique perspective to Wellington’s globally integrated investment platform. Mr. Ongoren will focus on absolute return investing at Wellington – an important area of expansion for the firm – and over time intends to develop traditional and crossover strategies that will invest in public and private global industrial companies. He will be based in Boston, Massachusetts, and report to May Yu, Director of Alternatives, Americas.