Augustus Asset Managers, the London-based specialist fixed-income and currency asset management firm that won its independence from Julius Baer in January, has appointed Gary Droscoski to

Cayman Islands-based fund management group Managing Partners, which specialises in managing portfolios of traded life policies, has appointed Pierre Capitaine as head of institutional sale

Henry H McVey has left Morgan Stanley, where he was a managing director and chief US investment strategist, to join Fortress Investment Group, where he will be based in the New York office

Henry H McVey has left Morgan Stanley, where he was a managing director and chief US investment strategist, to join Fortress Investment Group, where he will be based in the New York office

Ivan Harris, 37, the former assistant regional director of enforcement for the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s south-east region, has joined the national securities practice of law

UBS Global Asset Management has appointed Rick Nardis as deputy chief investment officer to Alternative Investment Solutions, a key multi-manager provider within the UBS alternative and qu

Daniel Moses has joined Longacre Fund Management, LLC effective, May 7, 2007, as a Managing Director with senior research analyst duties on Longacre’s distressed strategies and primary res

Citi has appointed Todd Johnson as its Head of Prime Brokerage business in Europe. Johnson joins Citi from Deutsche Bank where he held a similar position.

James Shipton, Head of Goldman Sach’s Asian Hedge Fund Consultancy Business, part of the company’s Prime Brokerage Department, has been appointed as Deputy Chairman of AIMA Hong Kong/China

The FSA’s Matthew Elderfield has been appointed as the Bermuda Monetary Authority’s next Chief Executive Officer (CEO).