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.  

Ed Garden, one of three founding partners and chief investment officer at Nelson Peltz’s activist hedge fund Trian Fund Management, is retiring from the firm after 18 years to focus on personal investments, prompting a reshuffle of the firm’s management team, according to a report by Reuters.

BlueCrest Capital Management has added a new trader to its team with the appointment of Samuel Horwood from Goldman Sachs in London, where he spent eight years working on the bank’s emerging markets sales and trading desk, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.