Barclays Wealth With Six New Hires

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London-based hedge fund manager Barclays Wealth has hired six investment representatives for its various U.S. offices.

The advisors, each with an average of 19 years of financial experience, will be placed in the firm’s Boston, New York, Dallas and Miami offices, according to a company statement.

Glen Darby and Matthew Grady will both work in the Boston office, with Darby coming from Merrill Lynch's Private Banking and Investment Group and Grady from Boston-based firm Old North Advisors.

Jerrid Douglas and Andrew Leventhal have been appointed to the New York office. Prior to Barclays Wealth, Douglas was with Citi Private Bank while Leventhal comes from Credit Suisse Private Banking.

Over in Dallas, Michele Huff Powell joins the firm from U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management.

Finally, Narciso Munoz has been appointed to the Miami office. In his previous position, Munoz spent 7 years at HSBC's International Private Bank.

Barclays Wealth has $272 billion in total client assets.

Sky Bridge hires new head of international operations

New York hedge fund company Sky bridge capital has hired a former Director of the World Economic Forum as new CEO for its international activities.

The company announced Tuesday that Max von Bismarck also has joined Sky bridge as a partner. He was formerly Vice President and Director for investors at the WEF, Switzerland-based economic think tank known for its exclusive, annual meeting in Davos.

Von Bismarck will be based in Zurich, where he will have oversight of Sky bridges business and marketing activities for his flagship fund of funds, sowing and Hedge Fund Advisory services throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.

Sky Bridge capital has about 8 billion dollars in assets under management.

The man Group Hires Chief Exec for the United States.

London-based Man Group announced it has hired two chief operating officers in an attempt to expand its business in the United States.

Lance Donen berg and Jordan Allen will be reporting to the COO Emmanuel Roman, Man Group said in a statement Thursday.

Donen berg was previously COO of GLG Partners, focusing on sales and business development in North America and Europe. The man Group acquired GLG last year.

Allen served as COO of ore Hill partners, subsidiaries, overseeing U.S. business.

Besides the two hires said the hiring Tim Gullickson group to assist the Manager their client Advisory Group.

Gullickson, who is based in the Chicago office, will promote human services Midwest-based institutions and funds nationally.

The man has approximately 78.5 billion USD of assets under management at 31 March, making it one of the world's largest hedge fund.

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