New York-listed GLG Partners, an alternative investments manager, said it has appointed two former Merrill Lynch managers.

Andrew Knott has been hired as a portfolio manager. Based in London, he will be responsible for establishing a new global energy product and managing its global energy investments, while also providing input into the energy-related investments across GLG’s existing strategies. He will report to GLG’s co-Founder and senior investment manager, Pierre Lagrange.

Mr Knott previously worked at Merrill Lynch, where he ran the European Oil & Gas Exploration and Production Equity Research team, part of the firm’s European Oil & Gas Equity Research group. This group has been ranked number one by the Thomson Reuters Extel Pan-European Survey for the last three years.

From 2003 to 2005, Mr Knott was an oil and gas equity research analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort and prior to that he was an executive in project finance at KPMG.

Meanwhile, GLG said it has also hired Anthony Burton at its London office as a portfolio manager. Mr Burton will co-manage GLG’s global technology investments alongside Philip Pearson in conjunction with a broadening of the current scope of such investments to include the global media and telecom sectors.

At Merrill Lynch, Mr Burton ran a global long short fund which was largely focused on the technology, media and telecom sectors.