Sanlam’s Strategic Bond Fund is moving to its boutique investment manager Sanlam FOUR. Craig Veysey (pictured), the manager of the Sanlam Strategic Bond Fund and current head of fixed income at Sanlam Private Wealth, will move over to Sanlam FOUR, joining the GBP4.3 billion boutique’s current group of fund managers.   Veysey, who has more than 17 years of investment experience, has managed the Sanlam Strategic Bond Fund since its launch in March 2012. Prior to this, he managed global bond funds and other bond portfolios at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, WestLB Mellon Asset Management and HSBC Investment Management.  

Law firm Dechert has expanded its financial services practice in Hong Kong with the addition of Michael P Wong. Wong (pictured) joins the firm as a partner and was most recently at K&L Gates.   “We are very pleased to welcome Michael to Dechert,” says Peter Astleford, co-chair of the firm’s financial services group. “Michael has already established a noteworthy and growing practice at his previous firm for global and PRC clients. By moving to our platform, we all anticipate that Michael’s and our clients will get a more integrated and better global service than ever before.”   Wong’s practice

Trading Technologies (TT) has appointed Michael Kraines as chief financial officer (CFO). Kraines will be responsible for finance, planning, strategy and business development.   Prior to joining TT, Kraines spent 25 years as an investment banker in the financial technology sector, executing over USD35 billion of market structure sector transactions.   Kraines joins TT from Sandler O’Neill + Partners, where as a managing director he led the financial technology effort and advised on transactions across every aspect of the market structure sector since 2004. Previously Kraines was a managing director in the financial institutions group with Wasserstein Perella since 1992,

Garry Jones, the London Metal Exchanges’ (LME) chief executive and an executive director of the LME and LME Clear (LMEC), is retiring from all his positions within the HKEX Group, including at the LME and LMEC, with immediate effect. Jones (pictured) has agreed to serve as an adviser to the LME until the end of the year.   Matthew Chamberlain, the LME’s chief operating officer (COO), has been appointed interim chief executive of the LME with immediate effect. Andrew Dodsworth, the LME’s head of market operations, has been appointed Interim COO with immediate effect.   Chamberlain joined the LME in November

Capita Asset Services has appointed Andrea Lennon as head of business development of its Irish funds business. Lennon (pictured) joins Capita Asset Services from BNY Mellon, where she spent the last eight years working in both relationship and business development roles. Lennon was responsible for the oversight and management of large complex corporate and institutional clients and had responsibility to generate revenue by marketing the full array of investment and asset services to complex mutual fund managers.   As head of business development, Lennon will focus on continuing to grow the funds business in Ireland which incorporates both a fund administration business

Alternative investment manager Investcorp has appointed Nelson Ramos as co-portfolio manager of its alternative risk premia portfolios, deputy head of cross asset investments, and a member of the cross asset and investment committees. Ramos will focus on the management of the alternative risk premia portfolios and be actively involved in the different stages of the investment process, including cross asset research, factor research and development, and portfolio construction.   Ramos, an 18-year industry veteran, joins Investcorp from the California Public Employees Retirement Systems (CalPERS), where he managed the quantitative research team that developed and supported the global equity and risk

BH Global, a London-listed closed-ended investment company, has appointed Julia Chapman to the board of the company. Chapman is a solicitor qualified in England & Wales and in Jersey with over 25 years’ experience in the investment fund and capital markets sector.    After working at Simmons & Simmons in London, she moved to Jersey and became a partner of Mourant du Feu & Jeune (now Mourant Ozannes) in 1999. She was then appointed general counsel to Mourant International Finance Administration, the firm’s fund administration division.    Following its acquisition by State Street in April 2010, Chapman was appointed European senior

Due diligence company Castle Hall Alternatives has opened an office within Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the international financial centre in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The firm also has offices in Montreal and Halifax, Canada; Zurich, Switzerland; and Sydney, Australia.   The Abu Dhabi office is led by managing director and partner, Anne Coady (pictured). Coady has more than two decades of accounting, operational and due diligence experience.   Since joining Castle Hall in 2007, Coady has been responsible for the service delivery of more than 2,000 due diligence reviews, leading the firm’s team of due diligence analysts. Coady has extensive