Permal Investment Management Services has appointed Paul Jeffries (pictured) to its institutional team, where he will be responsible for the Group’s UK Institutional business. Jeffries joins Permal on 1 June from Railpen Investments and will report to Roberto Giuffrida, Executive Vice President and Co Head Global Business Development.   At Railpen Investments, the UK railways pension scheme and one of the largest UK schemes, Mr Jeffries managed the GBP8 billion global equity multimanager portfolio, investing in both traditional and alternative managers. This role included research, monitoring and selecting new investment ideas. Before joining Railpen in 2005, Mr Jeffries worked at

Lisa Le Gresley (pictured) has recently joined Jersey Trust Company (JTC) as a Director in the Corporate Services Division and will focus on developing JTC’s fund services and real estate client base. Le Gresley is a Chartered Accountant and holds an MBA. She will be responsible for building relationships with the local funds’ industry, developing new business opportunities and acting as client director on a portfolio of international fund clients. Having previously worked as a director in the Corporate Fiduciary Funds Division at Kleinwort Benson, Le Gresley has over 10 years’ funds industry experience with specific expertise in offshore structuring

Sean Foley (pictured) has been appointed the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administration Officer of Butterfield Fulcrum, a leading independent fund administrator, and FORS Limited, an independent provider of family office and wealth management reporting and administrative services. Butterfield Fulcrum and FORS were recently brought together into one entity offering comprehensive outsourcing solutions across the alternative investment management, family office and trust industries. The two companies are run as separate businesses by their respective management. 
 Prior to being appointed as CFO and CAO of Butterfield Fulcrum and FORS, Mr. Foley served as the Group Financial Controller for Butterfield Fulcrum. Foley,

Long-short, emerging market, total-return specialist Finisterre Capital has appointed two new Portfolio Managers, Maxim Safonov and Rahul Sharma. Safonov has joined the Finisterre Global Opportunity Fund, where he will be responsible for FX and local rates trading. He joins Finisterre from FrontPoint Global Macro Emerging Markets Fund, where he traded rates, credit, FX, equities and commodities. He began his career at ING Bank in Moscow, where he became Head of Financial Markets and Deputy Chairman of the Board. He then joined HSBC, first in Moscow and then in London, where he was Head of Local Markets Trading for Russia and

State Street Corporation has appointed Maria Cantillon as global head of sales for State Street’s Alternative Investment Solutions business. Based in London, Cantillon, reports to Scott FitzGerald, head of sales for State Street’s Global Services Americas business. Cantillon was previously head of Alternative Investment Managers and a Member of the Executive Committee at BNP Paribas Securities Services in London. Prior to this position, she held similar sales and relationship management roles with HSBC and JPMorgan in Singapore and London. “Maria brings an extensive background in business development and relationship management throughout Europe and Asia to this role,” says FitzGerald. “Her

Dan Kozlowski, a former Janus Capital Group portfolio manager, is returning to the firm on June 13, 2011 to spearhead Janus’ alternatives product expansion and to succeed David Decker as manager of Janus Contrarian Fund. Decker has decided to leave the company on June 30, 2011 to establish an independent asset management firm. “David has been an excellent steward of capital during his time at Janus and he has served our shareholders well,” says Chief Executive Officer Dick Weil (pictured). “We wish him the very best and we hope to have the opportunity to work with him again once he

MKP Capital Management, a diversified alternative asset manager, has opened a European office at 3 St James’s Square in London. The London location will enhance the firm’s ability to pursue investment opportunities globally and to service clients in Europe and the Middle East. The firm has also made four new executive hires in New York.   “The opening of our London office and additions to the New York team reflect our commitment to building upon the values that have helped us deliver industry-leading risk-adjusted returns for over 15 years,” says Patrick McMahon, MKP’s Founder and CEO. “With these developments, we are

International Financial Centre law firm Walkers has made a series of senior management changes within the firm’s global group.   With the forthcoming retirement of Global Chairman Wayne Panton, who has been an attorney with Walkers since 1988 and a partner with the firm since 1997, this key strategic role is to be taken on by current Global Managing Partner Grant Stein (pictured), with effect from 1 July 2011. The move into the role of Global Chairman dovetails neatly with Stein’s recent involvement in international regulatory matters, particularly his work in the formation of the International Financial Centres Forum (www.ifcforum.org),

Global currency overlay and currency alpha manager, Millennium Global, has appointed Monica Fan (pictured)as its new Head of Business Development. Fan will join the firm on 16 May 2011 and report to CEO Mark Astley.  Previously global head of currency product engineering at State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), Monica led the strategic positioning of currency products globally and was heavily involved in the business development of SSgA’s funds. Prior to that she was a consultant at Oliver Wyman Financial Services and earlier was global head of currency research at RBC Capital Markets. She has worked in EMEA and Asia and