Anthony Burton has joined GLG Partners’  London office as a Portfolio Manager.

Laurent Dupeyron has moved from Goldman Sachs to Olympia Capital Management as a Managing Director, Head of Sales, Marketing and Product Developmen

Alliance Trust Equity Partners (ATEP), the private equity arm of Alliance Trust PLC, has appointed Layla Fear as Investment Manager.  Fear wil

Mark Hawtin will join GAM’s London office on 1 October 2008 as investment director managing a global long/short equity mandate which will invest in

DLA Piper has appointed Australian corporate and financial services lawyer Luke Gannon as a partner in its corporate group and head of the firm’s funds practice throughout Asia.

Heptagon Capital, a USD2bn specialist asset management business set up in 2005 by former Morgan Stanley executives, has hired Tapio Pekkala as a vice-president in its investment management

UK insurer Prudential has appointed Harvey McGrath, former head of the listed hedge fund manager Man Group, as chairman in succession to Sir David Clementi, a former deputy governor of the

After the saga of Greg Coffey and GLG Partners, it is now the turn of US hedge fund manager Fortress Investment Group, which has lavished a USD300m share grant – thought to be at least one

Stamford, Connecticut-based Sorin Capital Management, an alternative investment firm specialising in commercial real estate debt and asset-backed securities, has appointed Matt Chasin as c

Fund of hedge funds manager Tremont Capital Management has appointed as chief investment officer Scott R.