RBC BlueBay Asset Management has appointed Ian Clarke as Senior ESG Analyst, as the firm continues to incorporate environmental, social and governance considerations across its BlueBay fixed income investment platform.

London-based hedge fund firm Marshall Wace has appointed Amit Rajpal as managing partner and portfolio manager. In his new role, Rajpal will report directly to Paul Marshal, co-founder of the firm, which began operations in 1997 managing $50 million and now manages around $64 billion. Rajpal, who was previously Marshall Wace’s Asia CEO and portfolio manager of the firm’s global financials strategy based in Hong Kong, is moving to London for his new role. According to his LinkedIn profile, Rajpal has spent over 14 years with Marshall Wace having joined the firm in 2008 as a portfolio manager before being

Rodrigo Ostik has become the latest bank trader to join BlueCrest, with the London head of sterling rates and inflation trading at Japanese bank Mizuho joining the firm as a portfolio manager based in London, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.

Durlston Partners, a talent advisory firm for hedge funds, family offices and digital asset firms and banks, focused on the technology, quantitative finance and data science sectors, has appointed Joshwa Shah as the firm’s new head of business development. Shah has a wealth of experience working with candidates and organisations in the digital assets and FinTech sectors, having worked at Durlston as a consultant and senior recruiter since 2021, where he has helped some of the world’s most successful hedge funds and cryptocurrency companies grow and develop their teams.  He also established and led, in partnership with the Department of

Millennium Management, the $57 billion hedge fund founded by Israel Englander, has taken the first significant step in boosting its presence in Australia with the appointment of portfolio manager Alex Wallis, according to a report by Financial review. 

Ben Melkman, a former partner at Brevan Howard Asset Management and the founder of the now-shuttered Light Sky Macro fund, has become the latest ‘star’ trader to make a multi-strat move this year, ditching plans for a solo fund to join the team of macro specialists at Schonfeld Strategic Advisors. The report cites Colin Lancaster, who runs Schonfeld’s Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income business with Mitesh Parikh, as confirming that Melkman signed a contract to join the New York-based hedge fund firm on Monday after months of negotiations. He will be a senior portfolio manager in the unit and is

Multi-strategy hedge fund Millennium has added several portfolio managers in Singapore just five months after moving to new larger premises in the city state last October, according to a report by eFinancial Careers. The new arrivals include Kenneth Maples who joined the firm in Singapore after nearly eight years at Virtu Financial. He most recently served as head of trading for APAC but then spent 11 months seeing out a non-compete contract clause before joining Millennium. Wissam Mezrani meanwhile, made his Millennium move after four and a half years as head of quant market making at Citi, while Ravish Kumar

Bridgewater Associates has appointed Christopher Palazzolo as head of Europe and global sustainable investment partnerships, according to a report by Pensions & Investment Online. Palazzolo reportedly joined the $138 billion hedge fund firm at the end of last month. Palazzolo’s LinkedIn profile reveals that he left AQR Capital Management, which focuses on quantitatively driven alternative and traditional investment vehicles, to join Bridgewater on 27 February. At AQR, Palazzolo held the position of head of responsible investing until the end of 2021 before then working as a Senior Advisor to the firm before making the switch to Bridgewater.