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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has appointed Ron Feldman as a partner in the firm’s Asset Management and Investment Funds practice. He joins the firm’s London office from Fieldfisher LLP, where he served as the leader of the hedge fund team.
StoneX Financial Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of StoneX Group Inc, has expanded its institutional prime brokerage offering with the launch of a multi-asset CASS compliant custody solution coupled with new financing capabilities, which include repo financing and securities lending, under the banner of its London based StoneX Institutional Prime product.
StoneX has also added to its team with the hiring of Gary Clifford-Newman (Cross Asset Sales) and James Barten (Head of EMEA Security Financing) to bolster growth and capabilities within London Prime Services. These hires follow the appointment of Andrew Sterry in October 2022 to head the newly created
London-headquartered hedge fund firm Marshall Wace has appointed Todd Builione, a partner and global head of private wealth at its private equity backer KKR, to run its US business in New York, according to a report by The Financial Times.
Ongoing challenges in the digital assets market, including regulatory uncertainty, have prompted Los Angeles-based cryptocurrency hedge fund Arca to lay off 30% of its staff, according to a report by CoinDesk.
JP Morgan Asset Management has appointed interest rates expert Priya Misra as a managing director and portfolio manager on the Core Plus team in the firm’s Global Fixed Income, Currency & Commodities business. Misra, who will report to Kay Herr, head of research and incoming US chief investment officer for GFICC, will take up her new role in August.
James Rubenstein, the former head of US electronic trading at UBS, has joined ExodusPoint Capital Management, the New York-based hedge fund firm founded by Millennium Management alumni Michael Gelband and Hyung Lee, as global head of execution services, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Rubenstein spent over 12 years at UBS between June 2006 and October 2018, before leaving to join Deutsche Bank as managing director – Americas head of electronic equities, and then taking on a similar electronic equities role at BNP Paribas in April 2021.
Rubenstein has now made a switch to the buy-side by moving to
Simon Hurst, a commodities managing director at JPMorgan, has become the latest of the bank’s quant research execs to make the switch to a hedge fund firm, joining Ken Griffin’s Citadel as head of engineering at Citadel Energy Marketing (CEM), according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Hong Kong-based offshore funds lawyer Eason Huang has rejoined Appleby as a registered foreign lawyer in Hong Kong and a partner in the firm’s Shanghai office after all most three years as a counsel at Carey Olsen.
Huang has almost 10 years of offshore experience specialising in the structuring, formation, organisation and operation of all types of open- and closed-ended funds, and their related investment management entities. He counsels funds in all stages of their operations, and regularly advises them on fund formation and governance matters.
Huang also has significant experience in representing a wide range of sponsors on fund
Hazeltree, a provider of treasury and liquidity management solutions for the alternative asset management industry, has appointed Richard Winter as the company’s chief technology officer. Winter has over 20 years of expertise in fintech and delivering software solutions for financial institutions.
Multi-strategy giant Millennium has added Alex Jenkins, the head of trading at boutique hedge fund Polar Capital, to its team, according to a report by The Trade. Jenkins’ new role and title with her new employer have not yet been confirmed.
Jenkins served as Polar Capital’s head of trading for over three-and-a-half years having first joined the firm in December 2019.
Prior to that, she was head of European trading at Highbridge Capital, according to her LinkedIn profile, and also spent several years in equity sales at both Cantor Fitzgerald and Virtu Financial.
