Diversified systematic asset manager Florin Court Capital has appointed Mike de Groot as Managing Director – Product Management. De Groot previously worked with the Florin Court team at Man/AHL.

Ken Griffin’s multi-strategy major Citadel has recruited Georgios Kotsalis, a former Applied Scientist in Amazon’s core AI team as a Quantitative Researcher based in the firm’s office in New York, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.

Gerald Chua, a Partner and Deputy Portfolio Manager at David Mercurio’s Singapore-based stock-picking hedge fund firm Lauro Asset Management, has joined multi-family office Kamet Capital as a Portfolio Manager, according to a report by Citywire Asia.

BlueCrest Capital, the multi-strategy hedge fund firm-turned family office run by Michael Platt, is planning a 10% increase in the number of its trading teams by the end of this year on the back of returns trouncing many macro hedge fund firms, according to a report by the Financial Times.

Multi-strategy hedge fund firm LMR Partners has bolstered its commodities team to tap into potential investment opportunities from a new oil-based strategy it launched earlier this year, according to a report by Bloomberg.