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Capstone Investment Advisors (Capstone), a global alternative investment management firm, has extended its global presence into Asia with the opening of a new office in Hong Kong headed by Alain Bordoni who has been appointed Chief Operating Officer.
ARK36, one of the first fully licensed cryptocurrency hedge funds in Europe, has promoted Anto Paroian to Executive Director and CEO. In addition, the firm has promoted Despina Saphiris to Executive Director and Risk Manager, Tetyana Martynenko to MLCO Officer and Christos Krokides to Portfolio Manager.
ARK36 brought in Paroian in September of last year as Chief Operating Officer to utilise his 13 years of hedge fund, private equity, real assets and almost 20 years of financial experience to help elevate ARK36 from a start-up to a globally recognised alternative investment fund.
Since joining ARK36, Paroian has made it his
Ironshield Capital (Ironshield), a London-based European credit hedge fund manager, has launched the Ironshield High Yield Alpha Fund, a UCITS compliant Fund which will actively manage a diversified portfolio of long and short corporate credit positions.
Overall net exposure is hedged with the fund targeting absolute returns in any market conditions. The fund offers daily liquidity to investors.
Florian Chapel has joined the Ironshield investment team to manage the Fund alongside David Nazar. Chapel brings a strong track record in long/short corporate credit and credit derivatives. He previously managed market neutral portfolios at Pamplona Capital and Palm Lane Capital,
Copper.co, a provider of digital asset custody and trading infrastructure, has appointed Tim Neill as chief risk officer. Neill, who will be reporting to Copper’s Chief Operating Officer, Sabrina Wilson, joins the firm from Mastercard and his appointment begins with immediate effect.
Neill has over 20 years’ experience in operations and risk, with a focus on payments, open banking, financial services and technology, latterly at Mastercard where he was chief risk officer for their new payments platforms division and head of risk for product and engineering, covering new payments platforms, digital banking and CBDCs.
Neill is a board member of Vocalink
Bocom International Holdings’ former China strategist Hong Hao, who resigned earlier this year, is to join GROW Investment Group as its chief economist. Hong is to open the Shanghai-based hedge funds group’s first Hong Kong office and will focus on poffshore allocation strategies for wealthy investors.Hong is to open the Shanghai-based hedge funds group’s first Hong Kong office and will focus on poffshore allocation strategies for wealthy investors.
Hong will also serve as GROW Investment Group’s research chief.
GROW a global asset management company with a focus on high net worth individuals, was founded in June last year by a group
Redwheel (formerly RWC Partners), has appointed Jane Nicholls as head of business development based in London, with effect from 30 August and will be based in London.
Hazeltree, a specialist in treasury and liquidity management technology for the alternative asset management industry, has appointed Sonia Spicehandler as the firm’s first chief people officer.
JTC, a global professional services provider, has hired John Collins as senior director – Fund Services following the launch of its fund administration service in Ireland.
Collins has over 20 years’ experience within financial services having previously worked at a number of fund administrators, global custodians and high profile institutions including Euronext Dublin. In addition, his roles in Client Relationship and Business Development over the years have afforded him the opportunity to build a substantial network of industry professionals accumulated in Ireland and the Cayman Islands.
Collins will operate from JTC’s offices in Dublin and London to lead the growth
Options Technology, a leading Capital Markets services provider, has appointed Mark Marwood as VP, account management, managed platform.
Cole-Frieman & Mallon (CFM), an investment management law firm, has appointed Garret Filler as a partner. Filler comes to CFM after most recently serving as President of Allometrics, a startup at the intersection of gaming and finance.
