
Hedge fund and private equity fund manager EJF Capital (EJF) has appointed Asheel Shah as a Senior Managing Director and Head of Real Estate, effective 1 October 2018. Shah will direct all commercial real estate investment activities including ground up

London-based Merchant Capital has had a busy year since it launched its Merchant Funds plc UCITS-III platform at the start of the year.
Indus Valley Partners (IVP), a provider of technology solutions to alternative asset managers, has added a standard 40 Act rules library within the IVP Polaris data warehouse. This will enable fund managers to ensure their trading does not breach any limits
Merriman Curhan Ford has hired Joe Minton as managing director and head of derivatives to launch an agency options trading desk for institutional investors. Merriman’s new agency options platform complements its equity trading desks in San Francisco and New York

Brisbane headquartered Blue Sky Funds Management has taken the decision to open its Apeiron Global Macro Fund to outside investors, reports HedgeFunds Review.
Veritas Asset Management has appointed John Campbell as the company’s new Marketing and Sales Director.

Otkritie, one of the largest financial groups in Russia, has bolstered its research team with the appointment of two senior Russian equity market specialists. Vladimir Tikhomirov, who joins from Uralsib Financial, becomes senior economist at the firm, while Marat Ibragimov,