Law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman has relocated corporate attorney Dennis Ryan to the firm’s Dubai office.

California-based Coast Asset Management, a multi-strategy alternative investment firm, has appointed hedge fund industry veteran Roy H.

The Legis Group, fiduciary and fund administration specialists, has appointed Sarah Green, Samantha Renouf and Kwan Queripel. Green (pictured), who joins as a trust and company manager, trained with a firm of accountants and has been in the fiduciary industry for over 20 years. She specialises in dealing with private trusts and companies for high net worth individuals.   Renouf began a career in accountancy in 1984. During her 24 years with Rawlinson & Hunter, where she was a director, she focused on high net worth individuals and family office arrangements with complex accounting requirements. Renouf assisted in the establishment

Bache Commodities Group, a subsidiary of Prudential Financial, is continuing to expand its FX prime brokerage activities with the addition of key sales and middle office professionals.<

Investment boutique Newscape Capital Group has hired Derek Fulton as a board director and chief investment officer. Fulton (pictured), an ex-head of global closed end fixed income portfolios at Aberdeen Asset Management, will have overall responsibility for asset allocation, strategy selection, portfolio construction and portfolio management.   He has been managing global fixed income and associated multi-strategy portfolios for nearly 15 years. While at Aberdeen Asset Management, he held a variety of senior investment positions including head of Asian fixed income in Singapore, and head of global fixed income portfolios in London. Fulton started his career as a global fixed

Gartmore has appointed John Bennett, investment director at GAM, as senior portfolio manager, European equities. Bennett has a 20-year track record of managing Continental and pan European equities and will join from GAM where he has spent the last 16 years. He will report to Dominic Rossi, Gartmore’s chief investment officer.   At GAM Bennett manages the GAM Star Continental European Equity Fund and the GAM Star European Equity Fund.           At Gartmore he will assume lead management responsibility for the Gartmore European Select Opportunities and Gartmore SICAV Continental European Funds. The funds’ current managers, Roger Guy and Guillaume Rambourg,

NYSE Euronext is making a series of management changes that aim to further align the company’s European and US cash trading and listings businesses. 

Commissioner Walt Lukken is resigning from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, effective 10 July 2009.

AlphaMetrix, a managed account platform for institutional and accredited investors, has hired Richard Meade to the newly-created position of executive director of client relations.

MKM Partners has appointed Brian Cumberland as managing director of research sales, responsible for managing the firm’s sales team globally.