Gerald Chua, a Partner and Deputy Portfolio Manager at David Mercurio’s Singapore-based stock-picking hedge fund firm Lauro Asset Management, has joined multi-family office Kamet Capital as a Portfolio Manager, according to a report by Citywire Asia.

BlueCrest Capital, the multi-strategy hedge fund firm-turned family office run by Michael Platt, is planning a 10% increase in the number of its trading teams by the end of this year on the back of returns trouncing many macro hedge fund firms, according to a report by the Financial Times.

Multi-strategy hedge fund firm LMR Partners has bolstered its commodities team to tap into potential investment opportunities from a new oil-based strategy it launched earlier this year, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Fidelity Prime Services, the prime brokerage of Fidelity Investments’s institutional trading arm, has appointed Jeffrey Cantafio as Vice President of Business Consulting in New York, where he will report to James Coughlin, Senior Vice President, Prime Services.

New York-based diversified financial services firm Clear Street has made several senior-level hires within the prime brokerage business of its institutional division, expanding its derivatives, algorithmic and cap intro teams.

April proved to be a busy month for portfolio manager appointments in Singapore, with six new positions filled at hedge funds either headquartered in or operating in the city state, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.

Douglas Borden, a former Goldman Sachs Managing Director, has left quantitative trading firm Hudson River Trading to move back into the banking sector with JPMorgan, having spent recent years at hedge funds and high-frequency trading firms, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.

Beryl Capital Management, an alternative investment firm specialising in event-driven investing, has appointed Michael Callahan as Managing Director, Head of Investor Relations, with responsibility for client service, capital formation, marketing and business strategy.

Macro hedge fund major Brevan Howard Asset Management has hired gas specialist Robert Alpen as the firm looks to build out its commodity trading team after an absence of almost a decade from the market, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Brevan Howard, the global macro hedge fund major co-founded by Alan Howard, has upped the headcount in its Abu Dhabi office to 90, just 15 months after opening for business in the emirate, with 50 staff joining in the last seven months alone, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.