Law firm Maples and Calder, which advises on the laws of the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Ireland and Jersey, has appointed seven new partners and three of counsel across its global offices.  The new partners in the firm’s Cayman Islands office include Tim Coak, Daniel Lee, Anthony Philp, James Reeve and Shari Seymour. Callaghan Kennedy and Michelle Lloyd were elected as partners in the Dublin and Hong Kong offices, respectively. The firm’s new of counsel include Tim Dawson and David Sherwin in the Cayman Islands office and Mary O’Neill in the Dublin office. “We are delighted to announce

DWS has appointed Clarence Ng as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Alternatives Asia Pacific business, and Chief Operating Officer (COO) for DWS China. In these newly created positions, Ng will be responsible for managing the implementation of all financial and governance aspects of the Alternatives business across the APAC region, in addition to managing all operational aspects of DWS Shanghai. Based in Shanghai, Ng will report to Leon Williams, Chief Operating Officer Alternatives, Asia Pacific.   Ng joins DWS with 16 years of experience. His most recent position held was Global Markets Finance Director for Deutsche Bank (China) Company

Seix Investment Advisors, an affiliate of Virtus Investment Partners, has appointed Michael Tamasco, CFA, as managing director, Institutional Sales. Tamasco (pictured), has more than 25 years of experience developing new business globally, managing investment strategies and trading fixed income securities. In his new role, he will offer Seix’s comprehensive array of fixed income strategies, including its expertise in managing broad market, short duration, taxable and tax-exempt investment grade portfolios along with high yield bonds, leveraged loans, CLO structures and multi-sector credit solutions.   “Having someone with Michael’s extensive background in institutional sales and consultant relations, coupled with solid investment and

Jim Gentleman has rejoined independent investment management, investment consulting and services firm Wilshire Funds Management as a Managing Director.   In this role, Gentleman will assist in growing the firm’s presence as a leading provider of multi-asset, retirement and alternative investment solutions with financial intermediaries globally. He will support Wilshire’s efforts to identify and develop solutions around asset allocation advice, model portfolio delivery, manager research outsourcing and alternative investment strategies.   “We are delighted that Jim is rejoining our organisation,” says Jason Schwarz (pictured), President of Wilshire Funds Management and Wilshire Analytics. “His extensive experience working with financial intermediaries and

CreativeCap Advisors,a premier global asset management consulting firm, has added Richard S Heller, Partner at Thompson Hine, as one of the mentors for the firm’s Global Emerging Manager Incubator. Heller (pictured), joins the global mentor network having extensive experience working with fund managers helping them to structure their funds and advising them on best practices in building a quality fund business.   “We are very excited to welcome Richard Heller to our global network of mentors. We are confident that his vast experience and expertise will better enable our incubatees to build superior and stronger businesses,” says Tyra S Jeffries,

JonesTrading Institutional Services (JonesTrading) has appointed Cabot Henderson as Risk Arbitrage Market Strategist. JonesTrading says Henderson adds to its capabilities as block trading firm in risk arbitrage and event driven trading situations.  Henderson has over a decade of experience in portfolio management, trading, and analysis in risk and event driven situations. Prior to joining JonesTrading, he was Founder and Portfolio Manager at Center Hill Capital. He has served as Senior Analyst at Hudson Bay Capital and was an Analyst and Trader at C12 Capital. He has also worked in Equity Derivatives and Global Markets at Barclays Capital and Merrill Lynch,

BTIG has added Jack McCourt and Kenneth Smalley to the firm’s Fixed Income Credit team where they will focus on high-yield sales and strategy.  McCourt joins BTIG as a Managing Director within High-Yield Sales in Los Angeles, while Smalley joins as a Managing Director and High-Yield Strategist in New York. As high-yield specialists, they will effectively strengthen the Fixed Income Credit team and diversify its capabilities. McCourt and Smalley will report into Drew Doscher and Darren Haines, Managing Directors and Co-Heads of Fixed Income Credit at BTIG. “Jack and Kenneth are the ideal complement to our team,” says Anton LeRoy,

BlueMountain Capital Management (BlueMountain), a private, diversified alternative asset management firm, has appointed Nitin Dewan as Portfolio Manager, Primary Strategies in the firm’s equities team. In the newly-created position, Dewan (pictured), will report to Lance Rosen, who joined BlueMountain as Head of Equities last year.   Dewan will be responsible for identifying both core and tactical long-short opportunities presented by the systematic mis-pricing of equities around capital market events such as IPOs and Follow-ons.   “The growth of our discretionary equities strategy further advances our plans to enhance our historic strengths, to adapt quickly to changing markets and to build new investment

Vela, an independent provider of trading and market access technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, has appointed Peggy Sullivan (pictured), who has served as a consultant to the Company since October 2017, as Chief of Staff. Based out of Vela’s headquarters in New York and reporting to CEO Jennifer Nayar, Sullivan’s key responsibilities include establishing strong strategic partnerships, advising on market structure challenges and developments, building trusted relationships with key accounts, identifying opportunities to improve service delivery, and collaborating with the wider executive team on strategy and product innovation while also representing Vela across a number of industry groups and