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Tradar, a provider of portfolio management and accounting solutions to the alternative investment management industry, has appointed Arti Hatzirodos as managing director of its Asian business.
She will be based at Tradar’s Hong Kong offices.
Before joining Tradar, Hatzirodos was employed as the chief financial officer of an event-driven hedge fund based in London, Singapore and Sydney.
She has extensive experience of hedge funds’ operational requirements, having managed a London-based start-up fund and acted as its chief operating officer. In addition, she has held posts as an operations manager and a fund accountant.
Prior to entering the alternative investment management
Duet Group, the global financial group specialising in alternative asset management, has appointed Eric De Candia as chief executive of Duet Alternative Investments, its fund of hedge fund platform.
De Candia will be responsible for the running and development of the platform.
Duet has also promoted Karim Khimji to be chief investment officer for Europe and Douglas Morse to be chief investment officer for the US for Duet’s fund of hedge funds business. Both will be reporting to De Candia.
Prior to joining Duet Group, De Candia was the co-founder, president and a principal of AltEdge Capital Management, where he
CounselWorks, an advisory firm to alternative investment firms, banks and broker/dealers, has hired Brad Caswell, former general counsel and chief compliance officer of DKR Oasis, as a managing director.
Caswell will work closely with clients on strategic business, legal, regulatory and compliance matters, particularly hedge funds and investment firms with international businesses.
Prior to DKR Oasis, Caswell served as associate general counsel and a board member of the DKR group of funds. Prior to joining DKR Capital, he was vice president and assistant general counsel at Goldman Sachs. He joined Goldman from the law firm of Clifford Chance Rogers &
Aros Capital Partners, the recently launched Anglo-Danish hedge fund manager, has appointed Tom Muchiri Kabuga as an analyst in its investment team.
His remit will be to focus specifically on the development of the Aros Altru Fund, a new altruistic fund to be launched in Q1 2010.
Kabuga, originally from Kenya, founded a Kenya-based consulting and trade firm, which fosters Afro-Chinese partnerships, and in 2002 co-founded Creative Resources Global in China, which develops partners and suppliers through engineering consulting, technology transfer and supply-chain management. He has also delivered on several strategy consulting projects with start up companies.
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Global Investment House has appointed Rajiv Nakani as senior vice president to head the company’s alternative asset management business.
Nakani (pictured) has more than 16 years’ experience in investing and investment banking and brings in-depth sector experience in financial services, telecom, media, retail, logistics, healthcare, education and real estate.
Nakani was Global’s head of investment banking from August 2004 to June 2007.
Bader Al-Sumait, chief executive officer of Global, says: “It is a pleasure to welcome Mr. Nakani back. In addition to his previous experience with Global where he led several merchant banking transactions and private equity investments on behalf
Investment management group Stenham has expanded its activities in Bermuda and the Caribbean by hiring Paul Bailey as an exclusive consultant for the region.
Bailey comes with a track record of assisting professional advisers and their clients in offshore markets including Bermuda, the Caribbean and the Channel Islands.
Bailey spent ten years with GAM in London and Bermuda and has extensive knowledge of the region and its important decision makers. His remit with Stenham will be to leverage his experience of those markets and develop the firm’s relationships with key professional advisors and their clients.
Harry Wulfsohn, director and
Gallatin Capital has appointed Sara Michel Osberg as a director.
Osberg joins Gallatin from Altima Securities where she was most recently a principal focused on marketing to institutional investors in the US and Canada.
Osberg joined Altima after spending two years at ING Investment Management working exclusively with the fund of hedge funds team doing marketing and investor relations.
Prior to ING, she worked in business development for Madison Capital, a boutique alternative investment manager.
“We are delighted to bring on Sara as a key member of our firm. She is an outstanding professional with strong and additive ties to
Derivatives marketplace CME Group has appointed Derek Sammann, an executive with 20 years of global derivatives industry experience, to its management team as managing director, financial products and services.
Sammann (pictured) will report to Rick Redding, managing director, products and services, effective immediately.
Sammann will be responsible for leading the development, execution and management of CME Group’s interest rate, equity and FX product lines. He previously served as managing director, global head of foreign exchange products since joining CME Group in 2006.
"CME Group continues to expand its core business and customer base around the world, with our broad suite
BTIG, a broker dealer specialising in institutional trading and related brokerage services, has expanded its capital introduction team with the addition of Jennifer Bloom and Catherine Wagner as vice presidents.
The capital introduction team, which is led by Peter Tarrant, managing director and head of business development at BTIG, works with a range of managers and has a particular expertise in new and emerging hedge fund managers.
Through the firm’s network and existing client base of over 1,200 institutional clients, the capital introduction team looks to provide clients with effective and targeted introductions.
“Our ability to offer our prime brokerage
Derivix, a financial software company providing options pricing, portfolio risk visualization and analytics solutions, has appointed Carrick Pierce as its president.
In this newly created position, Pierce will oversee business development, product strategy and global sales to support Derivix as it continues to grow in the US options marketplace.
Before joining Derivix, Pierce served as the chief information and technology officer at Parallax Fund, a trading firm that specialises in relative value volatility trading.
“Carrick has the rare combination of quantitative strategy and technology know-how that’s critical to address the quickly evolving options marketplace,” says Jonathan Weedon, chief executive and
