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The world's largest asset manager has added a director and an associate to its growing secondaries team.

The departure of MJ Hudson's former private funds head Ted Craig was revealed last week by Secondaries Investor.

Vjerana Spajic joins the Carlyle unit to focus on preferred equity, six months after Secondaries Investor reported she had left the firm.

Ted Craig, a partner and secondaries specialist, has left the London-headquartered law firm and asset management consultancy.

Neil Harper, who has been at Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners since 2006 and oversees its secondaries business, is the unit's second senior departure in six months.

Managing director Tony Cusano was listed in Secondaries Investor's 2017 Young Guns of Secondaries ranking of the most impressive professionals in the industry under 36.

Daniel Quinn and Aleksander Bakic are joining the firm's London office from O'Melveny & Myers.

Five lawyers who focus on the sector will join the firm in April, bringing its European secondaries headcount to 15.

The firm formerly known as Deutsche Asset Management, which is in market seeking $500m for secondaries, has promoted London-based Rodrigo Patiño.

The group's head of secondaries advisory international and more than two-decade industry veteran has held roles in New York, Buenos Aires and London.