Gartmore has appointed John Bennett, investment director at GAM, as senior portfolio manager, European equities. Bennett has a 20-year track record of managing Continental and pan European equities and will join from GAM where he has spent the last 16
Global hedge fund investment specialist Financial Risk Management (FRM) has appointed Anthony Simpson as co-head of global business development, based in London. In this new role, Simpson will lead FRM’s client development activities globally, partnering with Akio Shimazu, who is
National Futures Association (NFA) has taken an emergency enforcement action against TS Capital Management LLC (TS Capital Management), a Commodity Pool Operator located in Auburn, Alabama. The Member Responsibility Action (MRA) is deemed necessary to protect investors in commodity pools
eFront has launched FrontPM, a set of portfolio monitoring and analysis capabilities that aims to streamline and automate the gathering of portfolio company data and enable sophisticated performance analysis and reporting. Investment managers will be able to dedicate more time
The Guernsey and Jersey governments have announced that the current British Ambassador to Bulgaria, Steve Williams, will be heading up the islands’ new joint office in Brussels. Williams will take on the role of Director of European Affairs at the
Heptagon Capital, a USD3.3bn specialist asset management business set up in 2005 by former Morgan Stanley executives, has made two new senior hires – Alexander Gunz joins as a fund manager in the Asset Management division while Sebastian Hybbinette joins
NYSE Euronext is making a series of management changes that aim to further align the company’s European and US cash trading and listings businesses.
Alternative asset management company Man Group has hired Miriam Tai as Head of US Consultant Relations. Tai, who is responsible for advising on the full range of Man’s products and services to the US investment consultant community, will be based
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has fined Andrew W Daniels of Hinsdale, Ill, Edward Taylor of Naperville, Ill, and Daniels Trading Group LLC (DTG) of Chicago, Ill, for violating speculative position limits in the Chicago Board of Trade’s
Cordium has acquired Zodiac Advisory Services, a provider of compliance, risk, accounting and governance services for the investment management industry in Malta. 

 The acquisition is Cordium’s third in as many months, following the purchases of The Sigma Partnership and
