Pine River Capital Management, a global relative value alternative asset manager and provider of investment solutions to qualified clients through commingled hedge funds and bespoke solutions, has appointed Conan Crum as a portfolio manager to focus on US and UK relative value inflation strategies.

Hedgeye Risk Management, an independent provider of institutional investor research traditionally catering for hedge funds and fund managers on Wall Street, has added finance industry veteran David Salem to its research team. Salem brings 40 years of Wall Street experience to Hedgeye and will lead the firm’s efforts to deliver institutional investor quality research to pension funds, endowments, family offices, RIAs and other large capital asset allocators.  Hedgeye says Salem’s considerable industry experience – from his work at The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF) and as partner at Jeremy Grantham’s GMO – will allow it to bring its investment research

Independent asset management firm, Carmignac has added to its alternative investment offering with the appointment of merger arbitrage specialists, Fabienne Cretin-Fumeron and Stéphane Dieudonné, who both join the firm from Candriam. Carmignac has been expanding its alternative capabilities for the last few years and the firm says the addition of a merger arbitrage duo is in line with the growing demand from clients to diversify away from traditional asset classes into those offering low volatility, uncorrelated sources of returns with experienced risk management capabilities.   Cretin-Fumeron and Dieudonné have been ruining a merger arbitrage together for 18 years, first at

Investment bank-based index traders are being targeted by hedge funds and energy trading firms as they look to cater for increased investor interest in opportunities across the commodities markets, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Sussex Partners, a global investment advisory firm that specialises in hedge funds and alternative investment asset classes, has appointed Kanji Kikuchi as a Partner to support the firm’s outreach in the Japanese market.   Sussex Partners has been engaged with Japan since the firm’s inception in 2003 and is a strong supporter of local market hedge funds and the alpha opportunity they represent.   Kikuchi joins Sussex Partners from Credit Suisse Securities in Tokyo where he was Head of Fund Solutions for the firm’s private banking clients. Prior to Credit Suisse, Kikuchi worked in alternative investment sales and structured solutions

Drawbridge, a cybersecurity software and services firm specialising in the needs of hedge fund and private equity managers, has appointed Nick Pastoressa as its new chief product & technology officer to oversee the company’s technology strategy and platform evolution, and lead both the product and technology teams.

Metaco, a provider of digital asset custody and orchestration technology, has appointed a number of key executives to its leadership team, to address increased demand for institutional digital asset services. Former global head of digital asset infrastructure at IBM, Peter DeMeo, joins the company as chief product officer, overseeing the product roadmap planning and lifecycle execution of Metaco’s suite of software and infrastructure solutions for institutions, and also responsible for setting up the company’s digital asset advisory practice which provides strategic direction and consulting to the business and to its clients. Having created IBM’s digital asset key management practice going