Gartmore has appointed Julia Campbell as senior credit analyst. She reports to John Anderson, Gartmore's newly appointed head of credit. Campbell joins from Elgin Capital where she has spent the past five years as a senior analyst.
In addition, Asim Rahman and Christian Billinger have been appointed as investment analysts and Eleanor Cameron as manager (dealing and operations) from GAM. They will report to John Bennett, Gartmore's new senior portfolio manager, European equities, who joins in January 2010. It is expected these three will also join that company then.
Bennett and his team will have lead management responsibility for the Gartmore European Selected Opportunities and Gartmore SICAV Continental European Funds. The funds' current managers, Roger Guy and Guillaume Rambourg, remain on the funds until Bennett's arrival when Guy and Rambourg will then concentrate on the alternative and institutional mandates. These include three hedge funds (Capella, Tucana and Acamar), two European absolute return mutual funds, the Gartmore European Investment Trust and several institutional mandates. Bennett will also develop a range of Pan European products.

Northern Trust has named Patrick Everett as Dallas region president, overseeing the company's North Texas wealth management operations. These provide investment management, fiduciary services and banking solutions to individuals and institutions. He was previously chief investment officer for Northern Trust's western region. Everett reports to southwest region president Steve MacLellan.
Dewain Hill will have expanded responsibility for banking and lending operations in Texas, Arizona and Colorado as new Southwest region chief credit and banking officer. Previously he was responsible for Northern Trust's banking and lending activities in Texas. Senior investment manager Cliff Demarest has been named managing director of wealth advisory services in Dallas.
In addition, Miami-Dade county president Sheldon Anderson will assume responsibility for the company's personal financial services business in the southeast region as regional chief executive officer. He succeeds William Morrison has been appointed chief financial officer and e will relocate to the company's headquarters in Chicago. Anderson will report to Sherry Barrat, president of Northern Trust's personal financial services business unit.
Ed Joyce will serve as region president of Miami-Dade County, succeeding Anderson. Joyce joined Northern Trust in 1984 as a trust administrator.
Separately Steven Fradkin, executive vice president and chief financial officer since 2004, has been named president of Northern Trust's corporate and institutional services business unit (C & IS). Timothy Theriault is stepping down as C & IS president.
William Morrison, executive vice president and co-president of personal financial services since 2003, will assume Fradkin's role as chief financial officer. Sherry Barrat, president, Northern Trust personal financial services, will assume Morrison's current responsibilities. Fradkin, Morrison and Barrat will continue to report to president and chief executive officer Frederick Waddell.
Anthony Wilkins has been named global head of defined contribution sales and Service for its asset management arm, Northern Trust global investments (NTGI). Joanne Hickman has joined as managing director, global head of consultant relations at NTGI.
Hickman, senior vice president and managing director, replaces Wilkins and will lead all efforts representing NTGI and its investment capabilities to the investment consultant community, globally. She joins from UBS global asset management .

Interdealer broker ICAP has expanded its alternative investments business with Laura Prager and Linda Prager. They will act as co-heads and managing directors of the alternative investments group which will provide personal and strategic assistance to investors interested in buying and selling secondary interests in hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate funds and other illiquid assets.

The board of Managed Funds Association (MFA) has elected Darcy Bradbury, senior vice president of the DEE Shaw group, as its chairman. Eric Vincent, president of Ospraie Management, the outgoing chairman, who served for the previous two years, will remain on the board and on the executive committee. He will become chairman of the nominating committee. MFA's membership elected six new directors to a two-year term: Gerald Beeson, chief operating officer of Citadel Investment Group; Scott Bernstein, senior vice president and general counsel of Caxton Associates; Sonia Gardner, president and managing partner of Avenue Capital Group; Michael Inserra, chief administrative officer of Moore Capital Management; William Goodell, chief operating officer of Maverick Capital; and James Rowen, chief operating officer of Renaissance Technologies.
MFA's 20 elected directors also include Michel Brogard, managing partner of Amber Capital Investment Management; Norman Champ, III, general counsel of Chilton Investment Company; Putnam Coes, chief operating officer of Paulson & Co; Samuel Cole, chief operating officer of BlueMountain Capital Management; Mark Horowitz, chief operating officer and general counsel at Glenview Capital Management; Scott Lawin, managing director of Fortress Investment Group; Jeffrey Lomasky, senior managing director, chief financial officer of Cerberus Capital Management; John MacFarlane, III, chief operating officer of Tudor Investment; Peter Nussbaum, general counsel of SAC Capital Advisors; James O'Brien, chief operating officer of Cantillon Capital Management; Joanne Pace, chief operating officer of Morgan Stanley Investment Management; and Tracy Wills-Zapata, managing director, global business development of Campbell & Company.
The Board elected Coes as MFA vice chairman, Bell as treasurer and Wills-Zapata as secretary. MFA also announced its executive committee includes Bradbury, Coes, Cole, Gardner, Lawin, Nussbaum and Vincent.
MFA's board also includes eight appointed directors. New appointed directors include: Jules Kroll, principal and co-founder of K2 Global Consulting; Cary Stier, national managing partner at Deloitte Services; and Philip Vasan, managing director, head of prime services and capital services at Credit Suisse.
Incumbent appointed directors are: Dean Backer, managing director at Goldman, Sachs & Co; Arthur Bell, managing member at Arthur F Bell, certified public accountants; Craig Donohue, chief executive officer of CME Group; William Keunen, director of fund services at Citco Fund Services (USA); and Annette Nazareth, partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell.
Two special advisors to the board of directors include John Damgard, president of Futures Industry Association, and Paul Roth, founding partner, Schulte, Roth & Zabel.