Oliver Quarmby has joined Ogier’s Guernsey investment funds and private equity team as a managing associate. Quarmby(pictured), is an English Solicitor and a Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment, who has experience working in-house and at a regulatory consultancy as well as in private practice.   He advises clients on equity fundraisings, flotations, the establishment of private equity funds, hedge funds, closed-end investment funds and financings and capital call facilities.   Group Partner Craig Cordle, says: “The addition of Oliver to our Guernsey team is very welcome indeed. Oliver will work from our London office and brings

Agilis Investment Management, an independent multi-asset fund manager, has appointed Charles Crowson as a Partner and Head of Trading. The news comes as the firm approaches the first-year anniversary of its multi-strategy defensive-growth Fund. 

 In his new role, Charles will be responsible for trade execution and will contribute to idea generation. Crowson joins Agilis from hedge fund Mason Capital, where he headed up the London office for ten years overseeing trading of event-driven and special-situation strategies across equity, equity derivatives and fixed income. 

   Crowson has more than 18 years’ investment experience and has previously held senior trading roles at

Driehaus Capital Management has appointed Lee Diamandakis as Senior Vice President of Institutional Sales to oversee the Central region. He is joined by David McElroy as Senior Vice President of Institutional Sales to oversee the Southeast region. Diamandakis brings over 16 years of experience in the financial services industry, most recently holding senior institutional business development and relationship management positions with William Blair & Company, LLC and Mesirow Advanced Strategies, Inc. McElroy brings over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, with a proven track record of business development and raising assets. Most recently, he led institutional sales

Man Group, the active investment management firm, has appointed Teun Draaisma as portfolio manager, based in London. Draaisma will work in partnership with Ben Funnell, the head of the Man Dynamic Alpha team, to develop a new multi-asset strategy. Draaisma (pictured), brings over two decades of industry experience to Man Group. He joins the firm from BlackRock, where he was Global Equity Strategist for almost six years, focusing on portfolio management and asset allocation. Prior to BlackRock, he spent time as a portfolio manager at TT International. Draaisma was previously European Equity Strategist at Morgan Stanley from 1997 to 2010.

Probitas Partners has promoted four of its team to the position of managing director. Additionally, the firm has expanded its real estate advisory capabilities to include providing bespoke access to large scale US commercial real estate opportunities to a targeted universe of the most active and sophisticated investors globally.   Probitas Partners was founded in 2001 and is an independent global placement advisory firm. The firm continues to be led by the longest-standing senior management team of any global placement advisor. The founders of Probitas congratulate their colleagues on their promotions and look forward to the next decade of great

Mosaic Smart Data (Mosaic), the FICC data analytics company, has added two finance and technology experts to its executive team – Stephen Caplen joins as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and John Showell becomes the company’s new Chief Operating Officer (COO). Caplen is a chartered accountant with over 20 years’ experience in financial services. Most recently, he was Deputy Group CFO at interdealer broker ICAP. He has also held posts as CFO at EBS, the spot FX electronic trading platform, and Deputy Head of Finance at the London Stock Exchange.   Showell is a Citibank FICC technology veteran, working at the

Global specialist fixed income manager, BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay), has appointed Stephen Thariyan to the newly created role of Co-Head of Developed Markets. Based in London and reporting to Raphael Robelin, Chief Investment Officer, Thariyan will work alongside Mark Dowding (Co-Head of Developed Markets) and will assume responsibility for the Developed Markets’ corporate credit investment process and help develop and grow BlueBay’s corporate credit strategies across investment grade, leveraged finance and convertible bonds.    Robelin says: “As we continue to grow our investment capabilities in response to constantly evolving markets and investor demands, our ability to generate superior investment performance

Martin Currie has appointed Zehrid Osmani, to lead its Global Long-Term Unconstrained (GLTU) team. Osmani’s appointment builds on Martin Currie’s equity capability, as it looks to further extend its presence in the institutional and wholesale markets. Based in Edinburgh, Osmani (pictured), who joined the business on 14 May, reports into John Pickard, Head of Investment.     Osmani has taken over from industry veteran, Tom Walker, who has stepped down as team head as part of a considered succession plan. Walker and Osmani will work together during a transitional period, which will involve the gradual handover of Tom’s key responsibilities.