Dalton Strategic Partnership (DSP) has appointed Keith Busuttil as an analyst on the European absolute return equities team, based in London. Busuttil will work alongside Leonard Charlton, portfolio manager, David Robinson and Benjamin Billiard on the award-winning Melchior European equity long short strategies, including the UCITS version which soft closed in May having reached USD500 million. Keith will contribute to idea generation and company research, looking for long and short investment opportunities as well as the identification of investment themes.   Busuttil brings with him seven years industry experience. He joins DSP from The Blackstone Group where he was Vice

HazelTree Fund Services, Inc., a New York-based provider of Treasury management services for alternative investment managers, has announced the election of Ron Suber (pictured) to its board of directors, effective immediately. As Senior Partner and Head of Global Sales and Marketing for Merlin Securities, Suber will provide HazelTree with the benefit of his more than 20 years of experience in sales, marketing, strategy and business development across the hedge fund, broker dealer and registered investment adviser industries. "Ron is a true leader within the hedge fund community and our Board is thrilled to have him," says HazelTree CEO Stephen Casner.

Alternative Investment Group, a fund of hedge funds that invests primarily in long/short equity strategies, has appointed Michael J Tansley as Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Tansley will be based in Alternative Investment Group’s Southport, CT office and will oversee the firm’s accounting, audit, tax, internal controls, information management, and administrative operations. "Michael has 25 years of experience working in the financial services industry and will provide exceptional vision and additional oversight to our existing financial controls," says David Storrs, Chief Executive Officer of Alternative Investment Group.  "We are very pleased to have Michael join our team." Tansley joined Alternative

The Swiss banking group SYZ & CO has appointed Katia Coudray Cornu (pictured) as Head of SYZ Fund Research, its funds analysis and manager-selection department. The mission of SYZ Fund Research is to identify new themes and emerging talent, with a view to launching new sub-funds in the OYSTER investment funds family. Before joining SYZ & CO, Katia Coudray Cornu worked for ten years with UBP in Geneva, where she was in charge of multi-management and manager selection, notably for a number of investment funds managed by third parties, and of managing the product range. Prior to that, Katia Coudray

The London Metal Exchange (LME) has appointed Colin Griffith as a consultant for its LME Precious Metals Services.   Griffith will be working with the project lead, Joanna Stuart, together with Chris Evans, Head of Business Development, to promote and market the various LME services for the London precious metals markets. These services currently include a joint initiative with the LBMA to collect and distribute gold, silver and gold IRS curves as well as a joint initiative with LCH.Clearnet to clear OTC gold trades based on Loco London delivery for LBMA clearing members. Griffith has over 30 years of experience

The Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) has announced the election of the new president, Marc Saluzzi, who takes up the rolls, which will run for two years, with immediate effect.   Saluzzi has been on the board of Alfi since 2001. He later joined the Strategic Advisory Committee and in 2009 he became Chairman of the ALFI Alternatives Committee.   Saluzzi brings over 25 years experience in the Investment Management Industry in Luxembourg and in the US. e is French and graduated from the Institut Superieur de Gestion in Paris in 1986.  He then joined PricewaterhouseCoopers and became a

The Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB) has appointed Dame Amelia Fawcett (pictured) as its new Chairman. A former Non-Executive Director of the Bank of England and Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley International, Dame Amelia will take up the post on 1st July 2011. She succeeds Sir Andrew Large who has been interim Chairman since last December when Antonio Borges left to become European Director of the International Monetary Fund.   Large says: “We’re absolutely delighted to have someone with Amelia’s vision and international experience taking on the chairman’s role at a time when we are working to increase adoption of

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management business of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) has appointed Bill Street as global head of Fixed Income Alpha Strategies, reporting to Kevin Anderson, global chief investment officer for Fixed Income and Currency. Street, who is based in London, was previously co-head of Active Fixed Income, alongside William Cunningham, who has left SSgA. In his previous role, Street provided leadership to SSgA teams delivering active strategies in EMEA and Asia-Pacific.  He will assume responsibility for all of the active fixed income portfolio managers and the fixed income analysts and strategists. Recognising the importance

Castle Hall Alternatives, a provider of operational due diligence to hedge fund investors, has recruited Ben Sansoucy, CA (pictured) as a senior manager. Sansoucy was previously Senior Manager of Operational Due Diligence at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), where he led the operational due diligence process overseeing external portfolio fund investments. CPPIB, based in Toronto, had assets of USD148.2 billion as at March 31, 2011. Before joining CPPIB in 2007, Sansoucy held the position of Senior Manager with Fortis Prime Fund Solutions (Cayman), a fund administrator, where he was responsible for risk based inspections of key operating functions