Silda Wall Spitzer, wife of disgraced former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, is reported to have stepped into the high-rolling world of hedge funds.

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of insurance group Aviva, has appointed Marcus Shepherd as real estate finance director.

Fritz Thomas has joined Oak Hill Advisors in New York as a managing director, where he will help lead the firm’s business development and client coverage activities.

Cani Financial Advisors, a provider of quantitative trading technology and alternative asset management, has appointed John McFarland as vice president of business development.

Connexion Capital, the alternative investment advisory firm, has announced the addition of Mark Mortimer to its London-based team.

AIS Fund Administration, a global hedge fund administrator and provider of outsourced middle and back office functions, has hired Dominic Newland as vice president of its European sales

Corazon Capital has launched a Geneva business to offer discretionary portfolio management to investors and their advisers in the region and to those who use Switzerland as a financia

Alan Miller, the former chief investment officer and a founding shareholder of New Star Asset Management until his departure early last year, is joining alternative investment manager Silv

Bermuda-based alternative fund administrator Butterfield Fulcrum Group has announced the appointment of Joost Löbler as managing director in charge of business development for Europe,

London-based managed futures specialist Mulvaney Capital Management has announced the appointment as chief legal officer of Alistair McNaughton, who was previously deputy head of legal at