Amundi Smith Breeden has appointed Bishop Jordan, as a Senior Vice President, responsible for evaluating and trading corporate credit opportunities. Amundi Smith Breeden is the North American investment headquarters for Amundi, the leading European asset management firm with more than $1 trillion in assets under management.   Jordan brings 14 years of investment management experience to Amundi Smith Breeden. Prior to joining the firm, Bishop was a consultant to Concerto Asset Management and DUMAC, Inc, providing corporate research, trading and portfolio management services. Earlier, Jordan was a Senior Analyst/Trader at Tiden Capital, LLC and, before that, at Silverback Asset Management.

Kinetic Partners, a division of Duff & Phelps, has appointed Adrian Johnson as a Managing Director in the firm’s London office.  Integrating closely with Kinetic Partners’ award-winning regulatory compliance and tax advisory practice, Adrian will lead a new service to deliver outsourced business services to the investment management industry, including regulatory and financial reporting, management accounts, VAT returns, payroll and company secretarial services. This latest development at Kinetic Partners marks another exciting chapter of planned expansion and growth since it was founded in 2005 and acquired by Duff & Phelps in January 2015.   Adrian has over 20 years’ accounting

Proskauer has appointed Bruno Bertrand-Delfau (pictured) as a partner in the firm’s private investment fund’s practice based in London. Bertrand-Delfau has extensive experience in private equity secondary transactions, notably advising Ardian (formerly AXA Private Equity). He has worked on many landmark transactions in the industry – both in Europe and the US – and advises institutional investors on their primary investments in private equity funds and other related transactions. Nigel van Zyl, head of the European Private Investment Funds Group, says: “We are thrilled to have Bruno join our team. His experience strengthens our position in the private equity industry

Hawksford has appointed Moira Ashby as an associate director. Ashby (pictured) will be part of the team responsible for defining, building and growing Hawksford’s corporate business. A tax specialist, she has had extensive exposure to a large variety of corporate clients including trading businesses, banks and life assurers. Over the past nine years she has been involved with complex engagements ranging from UK and Jersey tax compliance through to structuring advice, transactions, due diligence and FATCA/CRS advisory.   Ashby joins Hawksford from Ernst & Young in Jersey where she worked for four years in the financial services tax team. Prior

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has appointed Gregg Beechey (pictured) as a partner in the firm’s Asset Management Practice in London. Beechey is a regulatory attorney who focuses on alternative investment funds and the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). He counsels a range of financial sector clients in connection with issues related to financial promotion, authorisation and ongoing compliance, structuring and marketing, regulatory capital, agreements with customers and service providers, anti-money laundering and Financial Conduct Authority regulation generally.   This development follows Fried Frank's announcement in May about the expansion of its Asset Management Practice to Europe

As part of the ongoing recruitment drive, Carmignac Gestion has boosted its fund management team with the arrival of a senior fund manager, David Older. Older, who will work in London alongside Edouard Carmignac (pictured) commencing 1 July, will be in charge of global fund exposure to Communications, Media, Internet and Information Technology. He will also contribute to generating investment ideas for other Carmignac funds.   Carmignac says: "Thanks to David Older joining our team alongside our analyst Tim Jaksland, we are significantly increasing our investment expertise in Communications, Media, Internet and Information Technology stocks, four key sectors in our

ICAP, a markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services, has appointed Jenny Knott (pictured) as CEO Post Trade Risk and Information Services. Knott joins ICAP from leading African financial services group Standard Bank Group where she was CEO of Standard Bank Plc and CIB International, and most recently Strategic Advisor to the Group CEOs. Standard Bank is Africa’s largest banking group by assets and earnings. While at the company, Knott held a variety of roles including Global Corporate and Investment Banking Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to this Jenny worked at Nomura

Alternative asset manager Duet Group has recruited Michel Danechi and Kalim Aziz as fund manager and research analyst respectively, from Armajaro. The pair will launch the Duet Emerging European UCITS Fund in July with approximately USD100 million. Duet believes that recent events in Eastern Europe and the broader region have created a very attractive entry point for the firm’s investors.   Duet Emerging Europe will add to Duet Group's strong emerging market and commodities franchise.  The EM range includes frontier, MENA and Africa funds as well as a range of frontier and emerging market private equity funds.   Danechi (pictured)

Arabesque Partners, the London and Frankfurt-based asset management firm, has appointed Dr Robert G Eccles (pictured) as the company’s first Chairman with immediate effect. Currently Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, Eccles arrives at Arabesque with a reputation as a global leader in transparent reporting and sustainable value creation through environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.   An award-winning academic and author of twelve books including ‘The Integrated Reporting Movement: Meaning, Momentum, Motives and Materiality’, Eccles is the founding Chairman of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and a steering member of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC).