The latest appointments and employment announcements from the hedge funds industry.

Conyers Dill & Pearman has appointed Craig Fulton as Head of its Mauritius office. He has relocated from the firm's Bermuda office where he worked for several years and before that in the Cayman Islands office where he specialized in hedge funds and private equity investments. Fulton's appointment follows Conyers' formal launch of its Mauritius practice in June. In July the firm bolstered its Mauritian expertise in London with the addition of Devalingum Gopalla who specialises in investment funds. Fulton and Gopalla complement Sonia Xavier in Dubai and Nicolas Richard and Sameer Tegally in Mauritius.

Offshore law firm Harneys has announced the relocation of India practice head Chetan Nagendra to its London office. Since formally established in 2008, Harneys' India practice has advised on a wide range of corporate and finance matters including international business transactions, private equity, capital markets and structured finance. Prior to the relocation Nagendra practiced at the firm's British Virgin Islands office.

Martin Currie Investment Management has expanded its global hedge fund business with two senior appointments. Alastair Barrie joins in the newly created role of global head of hedge fund sales and Clayton Cheek joins as US head of hedge fund sales. Both bring with them extensive business development experience and join existing sales director, Mike Gibb. Barrie joins from RBS where he was director of institutional business. He will be based in the London office and report to Allan MacLeod, managing director of sales, marketing and client service. Cheek joins the New York office. Previously he worked for Man Investments in New York where he was head of institutional sales for the US.

Herbert Smith has further strengthened its international arbitration capability in China through the relocation of one of its arbitration partners from London and the recruitment of a Chinese arbitration expert. Partner Justin D'Agostino will relocate to Hong Kong to join the firm's Asia disputes practice. He has acted as counsel and advocate before arbitral tribunals in a number of jurisdictions and has experience in arbitrations under various institutional rules. He will work with the disputes teams in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing and with the firm's arbitration partners across the region, particularly Graeme Johnston in Shanghai. May Tai, a senior associate from the international arbitration group in London, will relocate to Shanghai in October. Patrick Zheng has also joined as a senior consultant in the Beijing office. These appointments follow a recent announcement that disputes partner Stuart Paterson will be relocating to the UAE to work with partner Craig Shepherd in developing the firm's Middle East disputes practice.

Pacific Alliance Group, the Asian alternative asset investment manager, has expanded its team following the appointment of four senior investment professionals in Hong Kong. Anshumann Woodhull, Kanak Kapur and Anil Gorthy have been named as managing directors and Stuart Blieschke, vice-president, has joined the company's absolute return and distressed investment franchise to pursue investments in distressed debt and other credit related opportunities across Asia. All four join from Deutsche Bank's Asia- Pacific distressed products group in Hong Kong. The team will report to Chris Gradel, managing partner of Pacific Alliance Group. Pacific Alliance Group focuses on three strategies - private equity, real estate and absolute return and distressed - with combined assets under management of over $ 4 billion.

Mick Moloney has been appointed global head of Mercer's financial strategy group, a joint initiative of the investment consulting and retirement, risk and finance consulting businesses. Moloney has relocated to New York from Dublin where he led the European group since its inception in 2007. In addition to his global leadership responsibility, he will head the US financial strategy group leadership team.

The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has appointed Julian Adams as the director of the FSA's retail companies division which supervises around 900 enterprises in the retail market, including fund managers, building societies and smaller banks, medium sized insurance companies and intermediaries. Adams joined the FSA in 1998 from the Bank of England. He succeeds Sheila Nicoll who will become director of conduct policy. Both begin their new roles on October 1.

Chuo Mitsui Trust International (CMTI), the global arm of Chuo Mitsui Asset Trust and Banking, Japan's second largest trust bank, has appointed Sophia Anderson as a manager focused on international sales of its asset management services. She will be based in London and will work with Christopher Renwick and Daisuke Ishihara.