John Bennett, director of European equities at Janus Henderson, has announced that he will retire form the company in a year’s time to focus on running Glasgow Rangers FC, as chairman of the board of the club he has supported since childhood, according to a report by FT Advisor.

Brazil’s Legacy Capital, one of the country’s largest independent hedge fund managers, has bolstered its foreign-exchange desk with appointments from local rival asset management firms, according to a report by Bloomberg.

LiquidityBook, a provider of cloud-native buy- and sell-side trading solutions, has appointed Can Envarli as VP of Engineering, reporting directly to the firm’s Chief Technology Officer Shawn Samuel.

NewGAMe, the activist investment group closing in on a takeover of Swiss asset manager GAM, has named hedge fund veteran Randel Freeman as its preferred candidate for the role of chief executive, according to a report by Financial News.

Societe Generale Security Services (SGSS) has appointed Richard Davis, the former Director of Institutional and Hedge Fund sales for EMEA at SS&C, as sales director, in a move to aimed at strengthening the firm’s UK client coverage.

South Korea’s DGB Financial Group has appointed Choi Youngwook, a former long-short hedge fund manager at Daewoo Securities’ now defunct Hong Kong subsidiary, as boss of its new asset management firm in Singapore, according to a report by Korea Economic Daily (KED).

Cyril Delamare has stepped down from his role of Chief Growth Officer at Waystone Group, a provider of institutional governance, risk and compliance services to the asset management industry, and has been appointed as an advisor to the group.

Options Technology, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services, market data, and IT infrastructure solutions for the capital markets, has appointed Scott Feagans as Senior Vice President of Sales Engineering.

Unlimited, an investment firm that provides investors exposure to the alpha-generating potential of hedge funds and other alternative investment strategies via ETFs, has appointed Michelle Sullivan as Head of Operations and Chief Compliance Officer, effective immediately.

Swedish financial services provider Vesterhavet Fondkommission AB, which is in the process of changing its name to Meriti Capital, has appointed Ola Björkmo as CEO and Chief Investment Officer and Jonas Sandefeldt as Head of Systematic Fund Management, effective 4 September.