Ingenious, the UK alternative investment and advisory group, has strengthened its clean energy division with five new appointments, including Helen Wade as a senior investment director. In addition, the firm has appointed one investment director, one investment manager and two investment
BTIG has added Jack McCourt and Kenneth Smalley to the firm’s Fixed Income Credit team where they will focus on high-yield sales and strategy. McCourt joins BTIG as a Managing Director within High-Yield Sales in Los Angeles, while Smalley joins
Dubai-based Evolvence Capital, an alternative asset manager focused on the Middle East and South Asia, has appointed a new team of investment and advisory professionals for its India opera
AllianceBernstein, a global investment management firm with USD447bn in assets under management, has appointed Christine Johnson as senior vice president – head of alternatives product management. In this newly created role, Johnson will join AllianceBernstein's growing alternatives team and collaborate
The board of the hedge fund industry group Managed Funds Association has unanimously re-elected Eric Vincent, president of Ospraie Management, to a second one-year term as chairman, while
The Hedge Fund Association (HFA) has appointed Christina Bodden and Colin Nicholson as co-directors of the association’s Cayman Islands Chapter. These hedge fund industry professionals have been selected to direct the HFA’s local member events and educational programmes, and to
New York-based alternative investment manager Millennium Management has recruited Michael Gelband, formerly global head of capital markets at Lehma
BlueBay Asset Management, a specialist manager of fixed income and alternative investments, has appointed Staffan Kampe as director of sales Nordics. Kampe joins BlueBay from Lyxor Asset Management where he was head of institutional sales Nordic region. Prior to this
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) and the London Metal Exchange (LME) have formed the board of LME Clear, the LME's self-clearing platform currently in development. LME Clear is on track to launch, as planned, on 22 September 2014.
New York-based alternative asset manager Valens Capital Management, which invests primarily in publicly traded and private micro-cap companies, has opened an office in Tokyo to service its
