Malbec Partners expands alternative asset management platform
Malbec Partners, an institutional alternative asset management platform, has appointed Costas Hamakiotes to its emerging markets team as senior trader.
Malbec Partners, an institutional alternative asset management platform, has appointed Costas Hamakiotes to its emerging markets team as senior trader.

Wilshire Phoenix Capital, a privately-held speciality finance, asset management and advisory firm, has appointed crypto, blockchain and neuroscience specialist Garrette Furo, CAIA, as Partner and CIO. Furo (pictured), has worked with numerous governments, blockchain start-ups, global investment banks, and wealth

Stephens International, an executive search consultancy focused on the global (re)insurance and financial markets, has appointed Jeremy Kemp as a director. Kemp will lead the company’s coverage of the asset management, capital markets, derivatives and insurance-linked securities/alternatives space. Mark

Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO has strengthened its business restructuring offering in the Midlands with the appointment of a new partner. Ryan Grant joins the firm’s Birmingham office today, bringing more than 18 years’ experience in business restructuring having

Active asset manager J O Hambro Capital Management (JOHCM) has appointed Aled Smith as Investment Director. Smith will provide investment oversight to JOHCM’s 16 investment teams, based in London, Boston, New York and Singapore, as well as search for market-leading

Richard Hughes has been appointed senior manager, business development, within the funds and corporate services division of the Vistra Group, based in the Jersey office. Hughes will be responsible for advising new and existing clients from across the Vistra Group
Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, has appointed Oliver Hauer as sales director, Germany in the firm’s London-based EMEA team. Hauer will be responsible for further strengthening and developing relationships with Liquidnet’s community of asset management firms in the region.

BlueCrest Capital Management has appointed Jaime Valdivia as head of global emerging markets research and strategy. He joins from the Emerging Sovereign Group where he was a partner, portfolio manager and director of global macro research specialising in global sovereign

BI-SAM, a provider of performance measurement and attribution, risk analytics, composites management and client reporting solutions for the global asset management industry, has appointed Richard Irons as executive director Europe. Irons has extensive sales and account management experience, spanning 25
Union Bancaire Privée has appointed Philippe Broadhead as head of sales – UK in its asset management division. Broadhead brings with him vast experience of the UK investment market, having spent over 20 years working with a wide variety of