Following Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) approval, Lord Livingston of Parkhead has been appointed as a non-executive director of Man Group, effective 1 January 2016.  Lord Livingston will, subject to his reappointment as a director at the Company’s 2016 Annual General Meeting (AGM) in May 2016, succeed Jon Aisbitt as Chairman following the AGM.   Lord Livingston joins Man Group with almost two decades of board level FTSE 100 experience. He has been a serving member of the UK House of Lords since 2013 and was previously Minister of State for Trade and Investment for the UK Government from December 2013

MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has appointed John Sergides as Managing Director, Global Head, Business Development & Marketing. 

 The appointment, which reinforces MUFG’s commitment to the asset servicing sector, is effective from 14 December 2015 and coincides with the completion of MUFG Investor Services’ acquisition of UBS Asset Management's Alternative Fund Services (AFS) business. 

Sergides will be responsible for driving MUFG Investor Services’ asset servicing solutions. These include fund administration, middle-office outsourcing, custody, depository, trustee, fund of hedge fund financing, FX and wider banking services to new clients, as well as deepening

Backstop Solutions Group, a leading provider of cloud-based solutions for hedge funds, funds of funds, private equity funds, pensions and endowments, has appointed Craig Rowland (pictured) as Vice President, Institutional Sales. As a senior executive in EMEA, Rowland will be responsible for driving Backstop’s overall sales strategy and revenue growth in EMEA, including a focus on the company’s operations.   “We are thrilled to welcome Craig to Backstop,” says Clint Coghill, CEO. “His experience helping firms grow alongside his regional expertise positions us with a strong advantage in the EMEA market. We are confident Craig’s leadership will enable us to

Angel Oak Capital Advisors, an investment management firm focused on providing opportunistic fixed income investment solutions, has hired two new managing directors to strengthen its institutional marketing efforts. Tracie K Gunion and Bradley P Schluter have joined managing director Adam Beeler to broaden the reach of Angel Oak Capital’s institutional sales and marketing team. These hires represent the firm’s efforts to augment its successful track record of growth by bolstering its outreach to institutional investors.   Gunion comes to Angel Oak Capital with more than a decade of experience working with hedge fund managers and investors in alternative assets. Prior

The Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the opening of its Asia Office in Hong Kong at its annual roadshow. Asia has become the main non-European market for UCITS funds, totalling approximately 62 per cent of total UCITS registrations outside of Europe.     Luxembourg’s position as the international fund centre of reference continues to grow in Asia, with over 700 people attending ALFI’s financial seminars in Tokyo, Tapei and Hong Kong this week. “Through our ongoing activities in Asia, we have developed strong relationships with stakeholders from the various Asian fund jurisdictions

Schulte Roth & Zabel has appointed Jason L Behrens as special counsel in the firm’s New York office. He centers his practice on the structuring, formation and negotiation of private equity and hedge funds.  Behrens previously served as an associate at the firm and re-joins after having served as general counsel at ACE Portal, Inc.   Behrens has represented a wide variety of fund sponsors, asset managers and institutional investors in all stages of private equity funds, real estate funds, secondaries funds, funds of funds and other alternative asset classes, both domestically and internationally. He deals regularly with issues relating

Backstop Solutions Group, a leading provider of cloud-based solutions for hedge funds, funds of funds, private equity funds, family offices, pensions and endowments, has appointed Michael Neuman as Vice President, Information Security.  In this newly created role, Neuman will oversee Backstop’s data and information systems security, and continue to advance the company’s policies and procedures. “Protecting our clients’ data is our top priority,” said CEO Clint Coghill. “With threats from cybercriminals continuing to rise, we are investing to ensure we maintain the highest data security standards.” Backstop takes pride in engineering safe and secure software-as-a-service solutions for the alternative asset

Northern Trust has appointed Belinda Burgess as head of Channel Islands, replacing Paul Cutts who assumes the newly created role of head of Alternative Investment Services for Northern Trust Global Fund Services across Europe, Middle East Africa (EMEA). Burgess who joined Northern Trust in 2005 was most recently head of Northern Trust in the Nordics. Reporting to Wilson Leech, head of Northern Trust in EMEA, she is responsible for supporting the continued growth of Northern Trust’s business in the Channel Islands. Northern Trust first established an office in the Channel Islands in 1972 and today is the largest administrator of

Mizuho Alternative Investments and Wilshire Funds Management are to jointly create, develop, structure and distribute risk premia investment solutions to institutional investors and financial intermediaries. Mizuho, one of the largest financial institutions in Japan, and Wilshire, a leading global investment consulting, technology and investment management firm, bring to the table a long history of experience servicing some of the world’s largest institutional investors. “Wilshire Funds Management offers expertise across multiple disciplines, such as customised portfolio management, risk management, infrastructure and operations. We are very excited about the opportunity to work with Wilshire and look forward to a deep and long-standing